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Taming the Monkey Mind
A Guide to Pure Land Practice by the Buddhist Scholar Cheng Wei-an
Translation with Commentary by
Dharma Master Suddhisukha

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Taming The
Monkey Mind
A Guide to Pure Land Practice

by the Buddhist scholar Cheng Wei-an
Translation with Commentary by
Dharma Master Suddhisukha

Sutra Translation Committee of the U. S. and Canada
New York – San Francisco – Niagara Falls – Toronto
May 2000

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The Chinese original of this translation,
Nien-fo ssu-shih-pa fa by the Buddhist scholar Cheng Wei-an, is reprinted
(together with Elder Master Yin Kuang’s work Ching-yeh Chin- liang) in: Ch’en
Hsi-yuan, ed., Ching-t’u Ch’ieh-yao
[Essentials of Pure Land], Taiwan, 1968.
Cheng Wei-an’s text has been translated into Vietnamese twice, under the title 48
Phap Niem Phat by Trinh Vi-Am. The better known version was published in
1963 with a commentary by Dharma
Master Thich Tinh Lac (Skt: Suddhisukha).

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Contents
List of Contents
Note to the English Edition

x5

Acknowledgements

x6

Pure Land in a Nutshell

x7

Preface

10

Text: 48 Aspects of Buddha Recitation 12

Appendices:
The Bodhi Mind

x75

Introduction to Pure Land Buddhism

113

Notes

135

Index

147

Dedication of Merit

150
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Note to the English Edition
The present treatise, a Pure Land classic, is part of a multilingual series on Pure Land Buddhism published by the Sutra Translation Committee of the United States and Canada. It deals specifically with the main practice of the Pure Land School – Buddha Recitation – and covers both the noumenal and phenomenal aspects of that practice. The treatise is accompanied by the detailed commentary of an Elder Master of the Zen and
Pure Land lineages. Readers not familiar with Pure
Land theory may wish to begin