[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) › [阿彌陀經要解](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762) › 1.139 # 阿彌陀經要解 1.139 阿彌陀經要解 1.139 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1.139) 答：「令初機易標心故，又彌陀本願勝故，又與此土眾生偏有緣故，又念彌陀一佛即為念無量佛，生西方一淨土即為遍生無量淨土故。若淺位人知西方勝於餘方，便可決志專求；若深位人知西方即攝十方、即具四土，亦不必捨西方而別求華藏。蓋若謂西方是權、華藏是實，西方則小、華藏則大者，全墮眾生遍計執情，以不達權實一體大小無性故也。」 > Answer: "To enable beginners to easily focus their minds; also because Amitābha's original vows are supreme; also because he has a special affinity with the sentient beings of this land; and also because recollecting the single buddha Amitābha is recollecting immeasurable buddhas, and being born in the single Pure Land of the West is being born everywhere in immeasurable pure lands. If people of shallow stages know that the West is superior to the other directions, they can resolve their will to seek it exclusively; if people of deep stages know that the West subsumes the ten directions and possesses the four lands, they also need not abandon the West to seek the Kusumatalagarbha elsewhere. For if one claims that the West is provisional and the Kusumatalagarbha is real, or that the West is small and the Kusumatalagarbha is great, one falls entirely into sentient beings' conceptual clinging of imaginary nature, because of failing to realize that provisional and real are one substance, and large and small have no intrinsic nature." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.138](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1.138) - [Next: 1.140](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1.140) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762~en-mt.1.139) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1.139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1762.1.139) · Pramāṇa