Sutras for Purelanders - 5 sutras and 1 treatise:
1) The Infinite Life Sutra
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2) The Visualization Sutra
3) The Amitabha Sutra
4) The Rebirth Treatise
5) The Practices and Vows of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra
6) Chapter of the Perfect and Complete Realization of Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta
Extra Pure Land books:
This website has a pretty good collection of Pure Land Buddhism books.
http://www.abrc.org.au/page52.html
Many of these books will explain things that PL practitioners will face during cultivation and what is to be done.
For example if you find that the more you recite the Buddha's name the more false thoughts you have you can find the solution here in Master Chu Hung's explanation:
Gathering In The Mind
I see new students and young people who stick the word "Buddha" in their minds to block off worries and false thoughts -- which they then feel bubbling up even more -- and think that this is the work of buddha-remembrance. They cannot rein in their minds. They do not know that the root-source of birth and death over countless eons cannot be instantly cut off.
But the moment when myriad thoughts are flying around in confusion is precisely the time to do the work. The more you gather [your mind] in, the more it scatters. The more it scatters, the more you gather it in. After a long time the work becomes pure and ripe, and false thoughts naturally do not arise.
Still, [the very fact that] you are able to become aware that false thoughts are a serious matter, is due to this one word "Buddha." If you did not practice buddha-remembrance, false thoughts would surge on and on without stopping for an instant, but you would never manage to notice.
Happy reading! Please inform if you have the link to the rebirth treatise and if any of the links posted are wrong. If you have more books to recommend please post.
净土文集
http://www.dizang.org/bk/jt/index.htm
http://www.buddhistdoor.com/oldweb/bdoor/archive/nutshell/teach85.htm
| 85. | Pure Land Sect (I) |
| 86. | Pure Land Sect (II) |
| 87. | Pure Land Sect (III) |
| 88. | Pure Land Sect (IV) |
| 89. | Pure Land Sect (V) |
| 90. | Pure Land Sect (VI) |
| 91. | Pure Land Sect (VII) |
| 92. | Pure Land Sect (VIII) |
| 93. | Pure Land Sect (IX) |
| 94. | Pure Land Sect (X) |
| 95. | Pure Land Sect (XI) |
| 96. | Pure Land Sect (XII) |
| 97. | Pure Land Sect (XIII |
Ten
Doubts about Pureland
http://www.purelandbuddhism.com/10Doubts.pdf
http://buddhism.sgforums.com/forums/1728/topics/308378