Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teaching about Classification of Teachings – the Sacred and the Pure Land teachings
淨宗判教 – 聖淨二門判
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Apart from the Pure Land School, all other schools such as: the Tientai School, the Huayen School, the Chan School, the Tantric School, the Vinaya School, or the Three Shastra School, all belong to the Sacred Path.
The Sacred Path requires one to cultivate with one’s own power to reach the Land of Bliss. If he cannot achieve it in this life, he has to continue in the next. If he cannot achieve in the next life, he has to continue in the life after that. This is called the Sacred Path teaching. It is classified separately from the doctrines of the Pure Land School.
除了淨土法門以外的所有宗派,天台宗也好、華嚴宗也好,禪宗、密宗、律宗和三論宗等都屬於「聖道門」。
「聖道門」的定義是靠自己的力量在娑婆世界修行,這一輩子不成,下輩子再來,下輩子不成,下下輩子再來,這一種法門叫做「聖道門」,這是以淨土門的教理來判別的。
Namo Amituofo!
