[504] 为什么要常行追荐？
[504] Why Must [There Be] Constant Practice [Of] Delivering [The] Deceased?
◎ 然佛法宏旷，唯成佛方可歇手。欲决得往生，正不妨恳切念佛，常行追荐。即佛经所谓虽知罪性本空，而常悔先罪，不说已得清净。
◎ [Summary]: However, [as the] Buddha’s Dharma [is] great [and] extensive, only [after] accomplishing Buddhahood, then can [there be] rest. Desiring [her to] definitely attain rebirth [in Pure Land, there is] truly no harm [to have] sincere reciting [of Āmítuó]fó[‘s name (阿弥陀佛), to] constantly practise deliverance [of the] deceased. Thus [is the] Buddhist sūtras’ so-called, ‘Although knowing transgressions’ nature [is] fundamentally empty, yet constantly repenting earlier transgressions, not saying [having] already attained purity.’
太夫人盖非常流，固不得以常格律之。其往生可必，其品位当不在中下。
[On your] mother, because [she was] not [an] ordinary kind [of person, there] certainly must not [be] with ordinary standards measuring her. Her rebirth [in Pure Land] can [be] certain, [and] her grade should not be [in the] middle [or] low.
然佛法宏旷，唯成佛方可歇手。
However, [as the] Buddha’s Dharma [is] great [and] extensive, only [after] accomplishing Buddhahood, then can [there be] rest.
欲决得往生，正不妨恳切念佛，常行追荐。
Desiring [her to] definitely attain rebirth [in Pure Land, there is] truly no harm [to have] sincere reciting [of Āmítuó]fó[‘s name (阿弥陀佛), to] constantly practise deliverance [of the] deceased.
即佛经所谓,「虽知罪性本空，而常悔先罪，不说已得清净。」
Thus [is the] Buddhist sūtras’ so-called, ‘Although knowing transgressions’ nature [is] fundamentally empty, yet constantly repenting earlier transgressions, not saying [having] already attained purity.’
莲池谓年中常须追荐先亡，不得谓已得解脱，遂不举行耳。
[Great Master] Liánchí said [that] within [each] year, [there] must constantly [be] deliverance [of the] earlier deceased. [There] must not [be] saying [that they have] already attained liberation, thereupon not holding [this] practice.
《与徐蔚如居士书三》
Third Reply Letter For Layperson Xú Wèirú
净土宗十三祖印光大师著
Written [By] Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
《印光法师答念佛600问》
Dharma Master Yìnguāng’s Answers [For] Mindfulness [Of] Buddha’s 600 Questions
卷十：净土法门与临终关怀
Scroll Ten: Pure Land Dharma Door And Care [When] Approaching [Life’s] End
传印法师鉴定
Evaluated [By] Dharma Master Chuányìn
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[503] Why Must There Be With Reciting Āmítuófó’s Name As The Main Practice Offered To The Deceased?
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何尽心力为临终亲人念佛求往生？
[505] How To, With All Of One’s Mind And Efforts, For Close Ones Approaching Life’s End, Recite Āmítuófó’s Name To Seek Rebirth In His Pure Land?
辅助念佛，更为得力
[192] With Complementary Support-Chanting Of The Buddha’s Name, Be Even More Capable
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卷十：净土法门与临终关怀
Scroll Ten: Pure Land Dharma Door And Care When Approaching Life’s End
https://purelanders.com/2026/06/12/pure-land-dharma-door-and-care-when-approaching-lifes-end
Námó Āmítuófó : Translation and notes by Shen Shi’an
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《临终三大要》: 原文·白话·详解
The Three Great Essentials When Approaching Life’s End: Original, Simplified And Explanatory Text
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死亡前后与丧礼中后的诵念
Chanting When Dying, After Death, During & After Wakes
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