On the other hand, Honen, a founder of the Jodo sect, as well as Shinran, a founder of the Jodo Shinshu sect, and others regarded the Three Sutras of the Pure Land as major sutras because they thought that the relief of an ignorant, deluded person was written in it, but nothing critical of the Hokke-kyo sutra has been seen.
一方で浄土宗の祖である法然や浄土真宗を開いた親鸞などは、自らさとりに向かうことのできない凡夫の救いは浄土三部経に説かれているとし、それを正依としたが、法華経を批判する言葉は見いだせない。