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Since its opening, teaching of Three steps is good at practice depending on the view of a final age which proclaims to acquire evil sentient beings in the disordered and wicked age by relating Ksitigarbha ten-wheel sutra ( Ten-wheel sutra below) to the thought of Tathagata-garbha and developing universal buddha and dharma. It was a milestone in the history of Three steps saying 'Three steps and Ten-wheel sutra have had a favorable karma since its opening,' and 'Master Bang is a teacher of Three steps .
First, this paper intents to explain why Three steps quoted Ten-wheel sutra so much( It is quoted over 100 in four {Three worlds dharma} ) It is considered that the meaning of Shinbang's saying 'Ten wheel sutra is a teaching of the final age in this land,' and 'In the disordered and wicked age without buddha, sentient beings are acquired, and the original vow makes evil sentient beings liberated,' are the same as the purport of Three steps. That is, Shinbang's saying 'The Ten wheel sutra is a teaching of this world in an final age,' and Ten-wheel sutra, the teaching which supports the people living in the final dharma age, and the fundamental spirit,of Three steps which 'acquires even evil sentient beings' share same root of thought.
Among three Ksitigarbha sutra, with Ten-wheel sutra and Prediction sutra, this paper examined how Ksitigarbha faith, which was spread into various sect. together with flourishing of the final age dharma, was related to Three steps. Unlike other sects. in which nobody refereed to, it is the characteristic of Three steps which developed Ksitigarbha sutra into its official sutra. As above, the process of Ksitigarbha faith raised a practical method for practice; it had been certainly affected by Ten-wheel sutra and Prediction sutra. Thus, along with the thought of Tathagata-garbha and Ksitigarbha faith, the spirit of Mahayana Buddhism concerning people had made a social impact in northeast Asia, which is shown in culture and art.