However, in Muryoju-kyo Bussetu Muryoju-kyo Sutra there is a description that a person who commits gogyaku (the five heinous deeds, a murder of father, mother, or priest, to hurt the body of Buddha, or to bring a conflict in the religious group) and a person who libels the True Dharma are excepted from the relief of the eighteenth vow among forty-eight vows.
もっとも無量寿経仏説無量寿経では五逆（父か母か僧の殺害、仏の身体への傷害、教団内の対立惹起、のいずれか）の罪を犯した者と正法を謗る者は四十八願第十八願による救済の対象から除かれることが明記されている。