Shinran, the founder of the Jodo Shinshu (the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) offshoot of the Jodo Sect placed particular weight on this sutra and it is seen as the most important scripture to Jodo Shinshu.
浄土真宗の宗祖である親鸞は、特にこの経典を重んじ、浄土真宗の最重要経典である。