Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
The Great Name of Myriad Virtues
All virtues are consolidated within the Name, including internally realized merit and virtues such as: the Threefold Body, Fourfold Wisdom, Tenfold Powers, Amitabha’s Four Kinds of Fearlessness, and all externally realized merit and virtues (all forms of goodness, light, preaching the Dharma, and benefitting sentient beings.)
All of these singularly splendid merits and virtues are contained in Amitabha’s Name. This is why it is called the Great Name of Myriad Virtues.
萬德洪名
名號為萬德所歸,阿彌陀佛三身、四智、十力、四無畏等一切內證功德,相好光明、說法利生等一切外用功德,皆悉攝在阿彌陀佛名號中,功德尤勝, 故稱「萬德洪名」。
Namo Amituofo!
