[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [觀無量壽佛經義疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1754) › 3.245 # 觀無量壽佛經義疏 3.245 觀無量壽佛經義疏 3.245 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.245](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1754.3.245) 「五百侍女發阿耨多羅三藐三菩提心，願生彼國。世尊悉記，皆當往生，生彼國已，得諸佛現前三昧。」問：《往生論》女人根缺皆不得生，今何違者？答：非謂此土女及根缺不得生彼，蓋言生彼國者不受女人及根缺報耳。以彌陀發願：若有女人未生我國復受女像，不取正覺。又云「國中人天不具三十二大人相者，不取正覺。」是知彼無女人及根缺也。餘如《十疑論》說。三、諸天發心。 > "The five hundred female attendants gave rise to the aspiration for anuttarā-samyak-saṃbodhi and vowed to be born in that land. The World-Honoured One gave predictions to all of them that they would all attain rebirth, and having been born in that land, they would attain the samādhi of the present Buddhas standing before them." Question: The Treatise on Rebirth states that women and those with defective faculties cannot be reborn there; how does this not contradict it? Answer: It does not mean that women and those with defective faculties of this land cannot be reborn there; it means that those born in that land will not receive the retribution of being a woman or having defective faculties. For Amitāyus made the vow: "If there are women who, having been born in my land, still take on a female form, may I not attain supreme enlightenment." It also says: "If the humans and devas in my land are not endowed with the thirty-two marks of a great person, may I not attain supreme enlightenment." Thus we know that in that land there are neither women nor those with defective faculties. The rest is as explained in the Shiyi lun. Third, the devas arouse their minds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.244](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1754.3.244) - [Next: 3.246](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1754.3.246) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1754.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1754~en-mt.3.245) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1754.3.245](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1754.3.245) · Pramāṇa