觀念阿彌陀佛相海三昧功德法門 1.61

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又如下願云：設我得佛，十方世界其有女人，聞我名字，歡喜信樂、發菩提心，厭惡女身。命終之後，復為女身者，不取正覺。義曰：乃由彌陀本願力故，女人稱佛名號，正命終時，即轉女身得成男子。彌陀接手、菩薩扶身，坐寶華上，隨佛往生，入佛大會，證悟無生。又一切女人若不因彌陀名願力者，千劫萬劫恒河沙等劫終不可得轉女身。應知。今或有道俗云女人不得生淨土者，此是妄說，不可信也。又以此經證，亦是攝生增上緣。

Furthermore, the subsequent vow says: "If, when I attain Buddhahood, there are women in the worlds of the ten directions who hear my name, rejoice with joyful faith, generate the bodhicitta, and detest the female body, yet after their lives end they should again take a female body, may I not attain perfect awakening." Explanation: It is due to the power of Amitābha's primal vow that when a woman recites the Buddha's name, precisely at the end of life she transforms her female body and becomes a man. Amitābha takes her hand, bodhisattvas support her body, she sits upon a jewelled lotus, follows the Buddha to rebirth, enters the Buddha's great assembly, and realizes the unproduced (anutpatti). Moreover, if all women were not reliant on the power of Amitābha's name and vows, for a thousand kalpas, ten thousand kalpas, or kalpas as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, they would ultimately never be able to transform the female body. You should know this. Now there may be monastics or laity who say that women cannot be born in the Pure Land; this is false talk and must not be believed. Taking this sūtra as proof, this too is the adhipati-pratyaya of embracing sentient beings.