Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about the Patriarchal Lineage of the Pure Land Teaching
《淨宗傳承之總顯其義》
From the Sung dynasty until now, most of the people who propagated the Pure Land teachings did not know much about Master Shandao’s Pure Land teaching. For this reason they failed to understand the threefold meaning of the Great Sutra. As a result, what they explained, expounded, propagated, and practiced cannot be said to be the Pristine Pure Land teaching. The source, in expounding or summarizing the Pristine Pure Land teaching, is Amitabha’s 18th Vow.
The core teaching in the Chapter on the Easy Path, by Nagarjuna Bodhisattva, is also the 18th Vow. In the Chapter on the Easy Path, Nagarjuna divided the entire teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha into two main categories - one is the Difficult Path and the other is the Easy Path. Basically, the Easy Path refers to the 18th Vow. So, the core teaching of the Chapter on the Easy Path is the explanation of the 18th Vow.
從北宋一直到近代,弘揚淨土的人大多不太知道有善導大師一系的淨土教理思想,不曉得掌握《大經》三要,因此所解釋、開展、弘揚、修持的,可以說不是很純正的淨土法門。純正的淨土法門,他的根源,大開大合,都在第十八願。
龍樹菩薩《易行品》的核心也是第十八願。《易行品》將釋迦牟尼佛一代教法,概括分為「難行道」與「易行道」,易行道主要就是指第十八願,所以《易行品》的核心就是第十八願的解釋之文。
Namo Amituofo!
