| Also, Dharmakara Bodhisattva (Hozo Bosatsu in Japanese), who is believed to be the incarnation of Amida Buddha, takes 48 oaths, and in his eighteenth oath he promises to lead any sinner or criminal to be reborn in the Pure Land, which is tens of millions of miles away from this world, if only the sinner sincerely believes in Amida Buddha. |
また阿弥陀如来の前世である法蔵菩薩が立願した48願のうち、第18願の「いかなる罪人・悪人でも阿弥陀を念ずれば西方十万億土の極楽浄土へ往生することができる。 |