金剛經纂要刊定記 3.69

3.69

The single fascicle of the sūtra text was commented upon by two treatises, and both Dayun and Qinglong ran the two treatises in parallel. Now we do not do this. Why? Because Asaṅga correlates the text with the eighteen abodes (aṣṭādaśa-sthitayaḥ), whereas Vasubandhu resolves the twenty-seven doubts; since their points of purport are different, their topical divisions are also dissimilar. Sometimes within a single doubt there are four or five abodes, or within a single abode there are two or three doubts. Abruptly joining, abruptly parting, linked before and carrying along behind, because of this the text becomes intertwined. The principle is not necessarily profoundly abstruse, but students find it difficult to understand on account of this. Now that we explain them separately, hopefully they will not interfere with each other, so that those who transmit and lecture upon it will expend little effort and reap great gains. Within the first part, there are three: