[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) › [淨土十疑論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1961) › 1.40 # 淨土十疑論 1.40 淨土十疑論 1.40 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1961.1.40) 答：「為對凡夫肉眼、生死心量說耳，西方去此，十萬億佛剎。但使眾生淨土業成者，臨終在定之心，即是淨土受生之心；動念即是生淨土時。為此，《觀經》云：『彌陀佛國去此不遠。』又業力不可思議，一念即得生彼，不須愁遠。又如人夢，身雖在床，而心意識，遍至他方一切世界，如平生不異也。生淨土亦爾，動念即至，不須疑也。『女人及根缺，二乘種不生』者，但論生彼國，無女人及無盲、聾、瘖、瘂人，不道此間女人、根缺人不得生。彼若如此，說者愚癡，全不識經意。即如韋提夫人，是請生淨土主，及五百侍女，佛授記悉得往生彼國。但此處女人，及盲、聾、瘖、瘂人，心念彌陀佛，悉生彼國已，更不受女身，亦不受根缺身。二乘人但迴心，願生淨土，至彼更無二乘執心。為此，故云『女人及根缺，二乘種不生』，非謂此處女人及根缺人不得生也。故《無量壽經》四十八願云：『設我得佛，十方世界一切女人，稱我名號，厭惡女身，捨命之後，更受女身者，不取正覺。』況生彼國，更受女身，根缺者亦爾。」 > Answer: "It is only spoken in response to the fleshly eyes and the mental capacity of birth and death of ordinary persons that the West is separated from here by a hundred thousand billion buddha-lands. Provided that a sentient being's pure land karma is completed, the mind in concentrated absorption at the point of death is itself the mind that receives rebirth in the Pure Land; the very stirring of thought is the time of being born in the Pure Land. For this reason, the Visualization Sūtra states: 'Amitābha Buddha's land is not far from here.' Moreover, the power of karma is inconceivable; in a single thought one attains rebirth there, so there is no need to worry about the distance. Furthermore, it is like a person dreaming: although the body is in bed, the mind and consciousness travel everywhere to all worlds in other directions, no different from waking life. Rebirth in the Pure Land is also like this: with the stirring of thought, one immediately arrives; there is no need to doubt. As for 'women, those with defective faculties, and the seeds of the two vehicles are not born,' this only discusses that in that land there are no women and no blind, deaf, mute, or dumb people; it does not say that women and people with defective faculties from here cannot attain rebirth. If someone interprets it thus, that person is foolish and entirely ignorant of the sūtra's meaning. For example, Lady Vaidehī was the primary requester of rebirth in the Pure Land, and along with her five hundred attendants, the Buddha predicted that all of them would attain rebirth in that land. When women and blind, deaf, mute, or dumb people here recite Amitābha Buddha in their minds, once they are all reborn in that land, they will never again receive a female body, nor will they receive a body with defective faculties. If followers of the two vehicles merely turn their minds and aspire to be reborn in the Pure Land, upon reaching it they will no longer hold the clinging minds of the two vehicles. For this reason, it is said that 'women, those with defective faculties, and the seeds of the two vehicles are not born,' not that women and people with defective faculties from here cannot attain rebirth. Therefore, the forty-eighth vow of the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra states: 'If, when I attain buddhahood, all women in the worlds of the ten directions who recite my name and loathe the female body, upon relinquishing their lives, should again receive a female body, may I not attain samyaksaṃbodhi.' How much less could they receive a female body after being born in that land! The same applies to those with defective faculties." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1961.1.39) - [Next: 1.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1961.1.41) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1961.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1961~en-mt.1.40) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1961.1.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1961.1.40) · Pramāṇa