往生淨土決疑行願二門 1.8

1.8

Second, regarding doubting the Dharma: the Buddha-dharma has two [aspects]: first, the non-definitive Dharma of the Hīnayāna; second, the definitive Dharma of the Mahāyāna. Within the Mahāyāna, there are further definitive and non-definitive [teachings]. What is discussed now concerning the Pure Land is exclusively the definitive among definitive teachings of the Mahāyāna. Moreover, though one searches through all the palm-leaf scriptures of the Hīnayāna canon, there is not a single word praising and encouraging rebirth in another pure land. Therefore, Vasubandhu's treatise says: "Women, those with defective sense faculties, and the seed of the two vehicles are not born [there]." This is clear evidence.