Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
The Chapter on the Easy Path - It is the Chapter Nine of the Commentary on the Ten Stages Sutra, written by the first patriarch of the Pure Land School, Nagarjuna Bodhisattva.
The Chapter is composed of two sets of questions and answers. The first is to differentiate the Easy Path from other Buddhist teachings. The second is to differentiate the Easy Practice of Amitabha-recitation from the easy practices of other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
The objective of the Chapter is to guide all Mahayana practitioners to give up the difficult teachings, adopt the easy one, and return to Name- recitation in accord with the Fundamental Vow of Amitabha. Its aim is to achieve non-retrogression in the present life as part of the Bodhisattva Way, and the method is holding fast to recitation of the Name.
《易行品》 - 淨土門尊崇的第一部祖典。為龍樹菩薩所撰述之《十住毗婆沙論》第九品。全品由兩重問答組成,第一重問答從佛法無量門中決出易行道, 第二重問答從諸佛菩薩易行中突出彌陀之易行。
本品的主旨,在引導通途大乘行者捨難取易,歸入彌陀本願稱名。其目標是菩薩道之「現生不退」,方法是「執持稱名號」。
Namo Amituofo!
