The article offers information related to "The Nature of Mahayana in Shinran" by Dennis Hirota, which appeared in the periodical "Horin". Topic includes on the understanding of Mahayana from the perspective of the Japanese Buddhist thinker Shinran by turning to the question of how, most essentially, we may understand the character of a Mahayana sutra. Shinran identifies what he calls "the central purport of the Larger Sutra of the Buddha of Immeasurable Life.