Western scholarship on Chinese Pure Land history, when it has treated relationships between Pure Land and other schools of Chinese Buddhism, has tended to stress the resolution of conflicts and the emergence of schemas such as "the dual practice of Chan and Pure Land". Such studies easily leave the impression that the resilutions of conflicts that Pure Land authors or other Chinsese Buddhist figures offered in their own time had lasting or pervasive effects in settling the dispute for all times and places, an impression not so far contraditicted within scholarly literature in North America or Europe.
