In the distant past before He achieved Buddhahood, Amitābha was a king. After he listened to Lokeshvararaja Buddha’s teaching of the Dharma, he renounced his kingdom and the throne and became a monk by the monastic title of Bhikkhu Dharmakāra. Cultivating merits, good karma, and blessings under the guidance of Lokeshvararaja Buddha, Dharmakāra made the following forty-eight vows to create a Pure Land for all sentient beings. He vowed to become a Buddha only when the Pure Land is created for all sentient beings. Dharmakāra cultivated with diligence through innumerable kalpas. Dharmakāra fulfilled his dream ten kalpas ago and achieved Buddhahood, earning the title Buddha Amitābha. Currently, He presides from Pure Land, teaching the Buddha-Dharma and guiding and receiving sentient beings into Pure Land. He also oversees the liberation of sentient beings who are trapped in the three evil realms, sins, evils, pains, sufferings, greed, anger, ignorance, samsara, and endless reincarnation in the six samsara realms. The Pure Land is described in the "Infinite Life Sutra" as a land of beauty that surpasses all other realms. More importantly for the Pure Land practitioner, once one has been "born" into this land (birth occurs painlessly through lotus flowers), one will never again be reborn (unless by one's own choice to go reborn to salvage other suffering beings). In the Pure Land one will be personally instructed and be personally blessed by Amitābha Buddha and numerous Bodhisattvas until one reaches full and complete enlightenment. In effect, being born into the Pure Land is akin to achieving enlightenment, escaping reincarnation and samsara, the deluded and defiled world, the Buddhist concept of sufferings throughout blind-sighted samsaric reincarnation: "the wheel of endless births and deaths." At any time in Pure Land, if one wishes, one can travel to or reborn into other worlds from Pure Land to salvage suffering beings and then go back home to Pure Land at the end of one's life. The Pure Land believers and adherents on Earth should cultivate a pure heart, a heart of purity, be kind, help people, and help to make this world a better place.