But after the doctrine of the Pure Land came to China, no other teachings became as popular as those of Amida's Western World of Ultimate Bliss. A possible reason for this--in the view of Fokuang University president Kung Peng-cheng--is that "it happened to coincide very closely with the tradition of the Fairyland of the Queen Mother of the West which already existed in China."
但淨土思想傳入中國後，其他各派淨土說都不如西方極樂世界說法盛行，「可能剛好與中國原有的西王母仙境吻合」，佛光大學校長龔鵬程有特別看法。