樂邦文類 1.313

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右佛尊號因緣，諸淨土經並不見出，始因唐飛錫禪師《寶王論》，以此佛號立一念多佛門。次侍郎王古《直指淨土決疑集》承之。後龍舒《淨土文》廣勸人受持，乃曰「甞以秈禾穀校之，一合有千八百粒。若一稱此號，乃滿二千碩穀之數。佛既自以此教人，則其功德不可思議也。」切緣《寶王論》不載所出經論，尤為缺典。今恐稱誦者欲知，故茲錄示。

The origin of the above venerable name of the Buddha is not found in any of the Pure Land sūtras. It first derived from Chan Master Feixi's Baowang lun in the Tang, which used this buddha-name to establish the gate of 'reciting many buddhas in a single thought'. Next, Vice Minister Wang Gu's Zhizhi jingtu jueyi ji adopted it. Later, the Longshu jingtu wen extensively encouraged people to accept and uphold it, stating: 'I once compared it with nonglutinous rice grain; one ge contains one thousand eight hundred grains. If one recites this name once, it fulfills the count of two thousand dan of grain. Since the Buddha himself taught people with this, its merit is truly inconceivable.' Notably, because the Baowang lun does not record the sūtra or treatise from which it emerges, it is especially an incomplete canon. Fearing that reciters now might wish to know, it is recorded and presented here.