Shandao's Commentary on the Contemplation Sūtra
A New Translation
I just completed a new translation of Shandao's Commentary on the Contemplation Sūtra, here.
This is an essential text in most schools of Pure Land, but especially Japanese Jōdo Shū and Jōdo Shinshū.
If you spot any typos or issues, please let me know. It could always use an extra pair of eyes. I will eventually make a companion version of the sūtra with the same headings so it's easy to follow along. But primarily it uses text close to Inagaki's translation for the sūtra quotations, so it shouldn't be hard to follow with his version.
As for whether I publish a print version of this, I am not sure yet. I will probably wait until BDK publishes their version first. The longer-term plan might be to complete the rest of Shandao's texts and publish them all together as a Collected Works of Shandao.
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I've always wanted to read this. Thank you for your work translating it.
Thank you so much for making this available! I was thinking only yesterday that I really should read it, but the existing versions are pretty hard to work with...