[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) › [龍舒增廣淨土文](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970) › 6.48 # 龍舒增廣淨土文 6.48 龍舒增廣淨土文 6.48 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [6.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.6.48) 凡誦經人或持齋戒人，固為善業，後世必受福報，無可疑者。然此報有盡，不能脫離輪迴。若更修西方，即超出輪迴之外。罪惡人修者尚得往生，況持齋誦經，其生上品必矣。雖然，獨修者其功小，勸人修者其功大。若能廣以勸人，使更相勸化人，則以己持齋誦經之故，必信重其言，其功尤大。現世則受恭敬歸依之報，身後福德豈有盡耶？ > All who recite sūtras or observe the vegetarian feast days and precepts are certainly performing wholesome karma, and in future lives they will surely receive meritorious retribution—there is no doubt about it. Yet this retribution has an end and cannot liberate them from saṃsāra. If they further cultivate the West, they will immediately transcend saṃsāra. If even evil and sinful people who cultivate it can still attain rebirth, how much more so for those who observe the vegetarian feast days and recite sūtras—their rebirth in the highest grade is certain! Even so, the merit of cultivating alone is small, whereas the merit of exhorting others to cultivate is great. If one can widely exhort others, causing them mutually to exhort and transform more people, then because one observes the vegetarian feast days and recites sūtras oneself, others will surely trust and respect one's words, and the merit will be all the greater. In the present life one will receive the retribution of being revered and taken refuge in; how could one's merit and virtue after death ever end? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.6.47) - [Next: 6.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.6.49) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970~en-mt.6.48) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.6.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1970.6.48) · Pramāṇa