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“The Buddha Speaks the Amitabha Sutra” is included in Volume 12 of the Taishō Tripiṭaka, no. T0366, translated by the Tripiṭaka Master Kumārajīva of the Later Qin. The sutra expounds the adornments of the Western Pure Land, the merits of Amitabha Buddha’s name, and the essential practices of upholding the name with single-minded concentration to attain rebirth in the Pure Land. It is among the most frequently recited scriptures in Chinese Pure Land Buddhism. This item preserves the scripture in the form of a calligraphic rubbing and is attributed to calligraphy by Wang Daigong and a colophon by Wang Kaiyun; it may be studied from the perspectives of late Qing and Republican Buddhist scripture transcription, stele rubbing reproduction, and the dissemination of Pure Land scriptures.