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金剛經纂要刊定記 2.81

金剛經纂要刊定記 2.81

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Classical Chinese

2.81

或曰:「諸家所出教體,皆取聲、名、句、文,或通取所詮之法,今何單取文字耶?」由是疏云:「文字即含聲、名、句、文」,此明具四法也。聲即言音。名、句、文三,即聲上屈曲表示,名詮諸法自性,句詮諸法差別,文即是字,為二所依也。

Someone asked: "When the various masters set forth the substance of the teaching, they all take sounds, names, phrases, and phonemes, or comprehensively take the phenomena that are signified; why do you now take literary [prajñā] alone?" For this reason, the commentary says: "Literary [prajñā] contains sounds, names, phrases, and phonemes," which clarifies that it possesses the four phenomena. "Sound" is speech and voice. The three—names, phrases, and phonemes—are variations and expressions upon sound: names express the self-nature of phenomena, phrases express the distinctions among phenomena, and phonemes are characters/letters, which serve as the support for the two.

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