An Lạc Publications

An Lac Publications is dedicated to the English translation of Buddhist scriptures in a way that will best enable the modern reader to understand their profound meaning.

The following have already been published:

On Measuring the Lifespan of The One Who Has Descended Into This World:
Our most recent publication is a comprehensive study of the sixteenth chapter of The Lotus Sūtra (Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra, 妙法蓮華經), including the essential commentaries on it by the Tiāntái and Nichiren schools. This chapter reveals the eternal nature of the Buddha’s spiritual life (dharma kāya, 法身) and is considered by many as the most profound teaching in all of Buddhism. This new book serves as a companion piece to On Skillfulness in Ways & Means, on the second chapter of The Lotus Sūtra. It is available in a black & white version as well as a special edition with the scripture’s text in color. (248 pages)

On Skillfulness in Ways & Means
is a comprehensive study of the second chapter of The Lotus Sūtra (Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra, 妙法蓮華經), including the essential commentaries on it by the Tiāntái and Nichiren schools. Also included is an in-depth exploration of the origin and development of this chapter’s ‘ten mutually dependent aspects found in all of life’s purposes’, the key to understanding Zhìyǐ’s meditation system called ‘the three thousand aspects found in a single moment of thought’ (一念三千). This book serves as a companion piece to On Measuring the Life of The One Who Has Descended Into This World, on the sixteenth chapter of The Lotus Sūtra. It is available in a black & white edition as well as a special edition with the scripture’s text in color. (546 pages)

Delivering the Heart of Transcendental Discernment
is an in-depth exploration of The Heart Sūtra (Prajñā Pāramitā Hṛdaya Sūtra, 般若波羅蜜多心經), the most often recited, copied and interpreted scripture in the Buddhist canon. It includes English translations of the classical Chinese, Sanskrit and Tibetan versions of the sūtra as well as the renowned commentaries on it by Fǎzáng and Kūkai. Also included are renowned essays by Fǎzáng and Dùshùn on the subject of Buddhist dialectics. (206 pages)

The Land of Pure Bliss (Sukhāvatī, 極樂國土) is an in-depth exploration of the nature and practice of faith as it has developed in Mahāyāna Buddhism over the past two thousand years. It includes the first full English translation of Shàndǎo’s classical commentary on The Meditation Sūtra (Amitāyur Buddha Dhyāna Sūtra, 觀無量壽佛經), a definitive explanation of the Pure Land School of Buddhism. (456 pages)

On Realizing There is the Only the Virtual Nature of Consciousness (Vijñapti Matratā Siddhi, 成唯識論) is an English translation of Xuánzàng’s masterpiece about the afflicted nature of consciousness and its spiritual restoration according to the Yogācāra School of Buddhism. (589 pages)

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All five of these publications are available from Amazon and other fine booksellers.
If there are any questions or comments please email us at pj@anlacpublications.com. We appreciate your input!

The author of these books (Peter Lunde Johnson) has been translating Buddhist texts for fifty years, but only in the past five years has he begun to have some of his work published. Next, there are plans to publish more in his series of works about The Lotus Sūtra.

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