著者

弘中 満雄

出版者

Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies

雑誌

印度學佛教學研究 (ISSN:00194344)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.54, no.2, pp.1081-1077,1347, 2006-03-20 (Released:2010-03-09)

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This is one consideration of the “other power” thought of Pure Land Buddhism. Concretely, the point of view is applied to the language of Buddha's supernatural power (anubhava or adhisthana) in the Sukhavativyuha, namely terminology and examples of the use of expressions referring to Amitabha Buddha's altruism. There are ten examples in all, and five of the examples are related to the power of the vow of Amitabha (or Buddhas). Although it seems that the meaning of a vow is already contained in adhisthana, from these examples we learn that the power of Amitabha to save is left to this vow's power.