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# 釋淨土群疑論 6.16

釋淨土群疑論 6.16

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [6.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1960.6.16)

問曰：自土既無苦眾生，云何度自土苦眾生？他土雖有苦眾生，應須往彼度苦，何因乃集極樂遠度他方苦耶？

> Question: Since their own land has no suffering sentient beings, how do they deliver the suffering sentient beings of their own land? Although other lands have suffering sentient beings, they ought to go there to deliver them from suffering; why would they gather in Sukhāvatī to deliver from afar the suffering of other directions?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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