Pure Land Patriarch - Master Daochuo
道綽大師
Name-recitation in accord with the Fundamental Vow contains the main principle and objective of the Pure Land School. It originates from the 18th Vow in the Great Sutra. Master Daochuo considered the Vow as the body of the entire teaching. It means that he explained the concept of “the Fundamental Vow” and “Name-Recitation" in his book - the Collection on Peace and Joy.
In Chapter 3 - the Third Great Gate, he says in the passage on the divisions of the teachings of the Sacred Gate and the Pure Land Gate, as follows:
The Great Sutra says, “ if a sentient being who has committed offenses for his entire life, recites my name and is not born in my land, I will not attain perfect Enlightenment.” This idea is inherited from Nagarjuna Bodhisattva, who established the fundamental dogma of “Name-recitation in accord with the Fundamental Vow”.
本願稱名說:淨土門以「本願稱名為宗」,其根源來自《大經》之第十八願,道綽大師以此願為淨土門的教體,即所謂「本願」,並以「稱名」解釋之,本書(《安樂集》)第三大門第三章之「聖淨二門判」說:大經》云:若有眾生,縱令一生造惡,臨命終時,十念相續,稱我名字,若不生者,不取正覺。」此是承續著龍樹菩薩以來「本願稱名」之根本教義。
Namo Amituofo!
