龍舒增廣淨土文 4.34

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釋迦佛在世時，有翁婆二人，用穀一斗記數念阿彌陀佛，願生西方。佛云：「我別有方法，令汝念佛一聲，得多穀之數。」乃教以念南謨西方極樂世界三十六萬億一十一萬九千五百同名同號阿彌陀佛。出《寶王論》。甞以秈穀校之，一合千八百粒，此數乃二千石之數。佛自以此教二老人，則其功德甚大可知矣。若愚人不能念者，且單念亦可。教人全念，得大福報。或兼持誦《小阿彌陀經》或《大阿彌陀經》或其他佛經，隨數多少迴向願生西方皆可。拔一切業根本往生淨土真言：

When Śākyamuni Buddha was in the world, there were an old man and an old woman who used a peck of grain to keep count while reciting Amitābha Buddha's name, wishing to be reborn in the West. The Buddha said: "I have another method that will allow you, with a single utterance of the Buddha's name, to obtain the count of many pecks of grain." He then taught them to recite: "Namo to the thirty-six trillion, one hundred and nineteen thousand, five hundred Amitābha Buddhas of identical name and title in the Western Sukhāvatī." This comes from the Baowang lun. I once tested it against non-glutinous grain: one ge contains one thousand eight hundred grains, so this number corresponds to the count of two thousand dan. Since the Buddha personally taught this to the two elderly people, its merit is known to be extremely vast. If an ignorant person cannot recite it [all], simply reciting [the name] alone is also acceptable. Teaching others the full recitation yields great blessed retribution. Or one may also combine it with chanting the Shorter Amitābha-sūtra or the Larger Amitābha-sūtra or other Buddhist sūtras, dedicating [the merit] according to the quantity, wishing to be born in the West—all are acceptable. The Dhāraṇī for Pulling Out All Karmic Roots and Rebirth in the Pure Land: