At the end of the Dharma-ending Age, all the Sutras will disappear. The Shurangama Sutra will be the first to vanish and so on until eventually the only Sutra left will be the Amitabha Sutra. After a hundred years, it too will disappear, and only the words "Namo Amitabha Buddha" will remain. After another hundred years, these words will dwindle to just "Amitabha Buddha," a phrase which will take numberless beings across the sea of suffering to enlightenment. When even the words "Amitabha Buddha" finally perish, by that time, Buddhism can be said to have been completely extinct.
