Like adherents of the more popular Pure Land sects, Gukyoku Reisai, a prominent Zen monk, believed in the saving power of the Buddha Amida (Sanskrit: Amitābha). This couplet, written in Chinese cursive script, reads, from right column to left:For an utterly evil person,there is no other expedient means.Simply recite the name of [A]Midato achieve birth in Paradise.—Trans. John T. Carpenter