One Vow Needed

Q: As Amitabha Buddha has 48 vows and Medicine Buddha has 12 vows, when one practises either teaching, must he or she make the same vows?

A: As the Buddhas made and fulfill the vows to help us, we don’t have to make those vows (unless we want to be exactly like them). What we need is to vow to be reborn in either Pure Land of these Buddhas, that we wish to go to. We can make similar vows when more ready too – e.g. when we are well-trained in Pure Land.