釋摩訶衍論 3.13

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3.13

The treatise says: Although pure initial awakening has no time of delusion, because it does not maintain its own nature, it can receive defiled perfuming and transmigrate according to conditions. By this meaning, it is therefore named 'defiled-and-pure initial awakening'. By what meaning is it forcibly named 'tathatā'? What is the character of the distinction in its literal meaning? The verse says:

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