Pure Land Patriarch - Master Daochuo
道綽大師
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Master Tanluan explained why they were called difficult and easy. What makes the path difficult is its reliance on self-power. What makes the other path easy is its reliance on other-power. Now, Master Daochuo inherited these concepts from the two previous patriarchs and logically and systematically established the categories of the Sacred Path and the Pure Land Path, based on the Buddhist teachings in his era.
The categories are more contemporary and more suitable for the aptitude and capacity of the practitioners of his time and today. Of course all of these categories were firmly based on many sutras and commentaries.
曇鸞大師闡明之所以難、之所以易,在於是全自力或全他力。而如今道綽大師繼承此二位祖師之鴻判,更就時代性、根機性,廣引眾多經論之文,使一代教法之難易二道、自他二力成為有邏輯性、系統性的聖淨二門判。
Namo Amituofo!
