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said here may help correct this false impression.
I know that the sutra states that only ten repetitions of
Amitabha's name are sufficient for salvation, but even
during life the conditions in which those ten are to be
made are not so easy (especially at the very time of
dying, these conditions are impossible for most people).
There is a story about this:
In Tibet there lived a lama who had for many years
repeated Amitabha's name and Om Mani Padme Hum,
the mantra of Avalokitesvara. He had also developed a
very fine bodhicitta with the sincere desire to go to hell
to save all beings there. Because of the concentrated
way in which he had repeated the name, at the lama's
death, Amitabha with all his attending bodhisattvas
came to greet him. The lama told him: "Although I
repeated your name, I do not want to go to share the
pleasures of Buddhahood. I wish only to go to hell and
suffer there with the beings in pain for their salvation."
Thus he refused his lotus in the Pure Land. But
Amitabha said to him: "You should first get Full
Enlightenment in my Pure Land, and then you will be
able to do every good thing to save others."
Unless he had a great bodhicitta, the lama would not
have been admitted by Amitabha.
There is another story dealing with the Idealist School
and this may be added here:
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