While they had been originally argued as subjects for practitioners of austerities in order to be reborn in the Pure Land, Shinran argued that Hozo bosatsu (Dharmakara Bodhisattva) had finished practicing all of them.
本来、往生する人の修行として論じられていたものを、親鸞はすべて法蔵菩薩が修行し終わったものであると論じた。