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Amitāyus

(Sanskrit). ‘Boundless life’, an alternative name for the Buddha Amitābha, though perhaps originally used as a epithet for him. He is often depicted with a begging-bowl containing the elixir of immortality.

 
 
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Buddha Amitayus is the Buddha of long life, good fortune and wisdom.

He is depicted as red in colour, holding a life vase brimming with the nectar of immortality.

Buddha Amitayus is the samboghakaya "enjoyment body" of Buddha Amitabha who is the "emanation body".

Buddha Amitayus is practised extensively in Tibetan Buddhism and New Kadampa Tradition.

His short mantra is given as OM AMARANI ZEWÄNTEYE SÖHA or OM AMARANI JIWANTIYE SWAHA.

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