Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about the Patriarchal Lineage of the Pure Land Path
《淨宗傳承之總顯其義》
No matter how we fold and unfold the Pure Land teaching, we cannot abandon the Fundamental Vow of Amitabha Buddha. What are the connotations of the Fundamental Vow? We can’t really understand the Fundamental Vow as stated in the scripture, so we need the explanations of the patriarchs.
Among all the great masters who explained Amitabha’s Fundamental Vow in different ways, our lineage only accepts the pristine explanations of Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Tanluan, Daochuo, and Shandao.
淨土法門千開萬合,都離不開阿彌陀佛的根本願,根本願的內涵是什麼呢?我們自己看根本願的經文不能真實理解,所以必需要透過祖師的解釋。
然而,究實而言,歷代高僧大德雖對阿彌陀佛根本願有各種內容的詮釋,但只有龍樹、天親、曇鸞、道綽、善導幾位祖師的解釋,可以說都是很純粹的,是一棒接一棒,是上傳下承,內容都一致的。
Namo Amituofo!
