Source: Yamada 1976

Yamada Meiji 山田明爾. “Kangyōkyō: Muryōjubutsu to Amidabutsu 観経考 – 無量寿仏と阿弥陀仏.” Ryōkoku daigaku ronshū 龍谷大学論集 408 (1976): 76–95.

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"Yamada Meiji has shown by careful textual analysis that the text as a whole is composed of four parts, of which the frame narrative prologue that concerns us most is one, and that the four parts were stitched together to form the present text at some stage later than their separate composition." (As summarised in Radich 2011, 46.)

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Cited in Silk, 1997, 186-189.

"Yamada Meiji has shown by careful textual analysis that the text as a whole is composed of four parts, of which the frame narrative prologue that concerns us most is one, and that the four parts were stitched together to form the present text at some stage later than their separate composition." (As summarised in Radich 2011, 46.) T0365; 佛說觀無量壽佛經