My paper studies on the faith in and vow to the Amitabha Buddha of Master Shan-tao , who developed “The Practice of Pure Land”, which is the way to reach salvation as human beings believing in Amitabha Buddha . He thought that the human beings are not east to release from samsara predicament（a circle of death and reborn）by their own resources .Thus, his great vision is that one can only be saved through being reborn in the Pure Land of Buddha Amita . This method is “Nien-Fo: to have the faith in and vow to Amitabha Buddha” . The core theory of Shan-tao’s faith in and vow to Amitabha Buddha contains two methods ─Meditation and Recitation of the name of Amitabha Buddha（A-Mi-To Fo）, which is endowed with “Threefold Mind”（San-chung hsin） ─“most sincere mind”（chih-ch’eng hsin）, “profound mind”（shen-hsin）, and “mind which produces the vow to be reborn in the Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land”（hui-hsiang fa-yuan hsin）. Shan-tao advocated that “whoever has this threefold mind will certainly be reborn in that Pure Land.”
