Sometimes Shomyo indicates that shobutsu (many buddhas) chant the name of Amida Buddha with admiration and praise (Shobutsu Shomyo is in the seventeenth of the forty-eight vows made by Amida Buddha).
時には、諸仏が阿弥陀仏の名を称揚し讃歎することをさす（諸仏称名は阿弥陀仏の四十八願中の四十八願第十七願）。