Finding Our True Home - by Thich Nhat Hanh (Paperback)

About the Book

This new and definitive translation of the "Amitabha Sutra"--a central sutra of the Pure Land School of Buddhism--unlocks one of the deepest concepts of Buddhist discipline: Happiness cannot exist without suffering.

Book Synopsis

Finding Our True Home presents a new definitive translation of the Amitabha Sutra along with Thich Nhat Hanh's first commentary on one of the most practiced forms of Buddhism in the world, the Pure Land school.

Introduced in the Buddha's own lifetime, Pure Land practice puts us in touch with the beauty in our own world and brings us the security, solidity, and freedom we need in order to truly enjoy it. Realizing that Buddha is within us, we see that the Pure Land (paradise) is here and now, rather than in the future. Finding Our True Home will open a new Dharma door to many students of meditation.

Review Quotes

"Zen master, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh presents a translation of the Amitabha Sutra along with his inimitable commentary on this important text. He elucidates on suffering and happiness, the environment of the Pure Land, dwelling happily, the limitless light of mindfulness, building our land of Great Happiness, recollecting the Buddha, faith and aspiration and practice, the path of purification, and the three sources of energy."
--Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice

About the Author

Thich Nhat Hanh was a world-renowned spiritual teacher and peace activist. Born in Vietnam in 1926, he became a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of sixteen. Over seven decades of teaching, he published more than 100 books, which have sold more than four million copies in the United States alone. Exiled from Vietnam in 1966 for promoting peace, his teachings on Buddhism as a path to social and political transformation are responsible for bringing the mindfulness movement to Western culture. He established the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism in France, now the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe and the heart of a growing community of mindfulness practice centers around the world. He passed away in 2022 at the age of 95 at his root temple, Tu Hieu, in Hue, Vietnam.