仁王經疏 2.395

2.395

Approaching the explanation of this chapter, there are briefly two topics: first, explaining the chapter title; second, directly explaining the text. Regarding the explanation of the chapter title, truths are of two kinds: first is conventional truth, referring to conditioned phenomena arising from causes and conditions, being designated and not real, hence called conventional truth; second is ultimate truth, true mark tathatā, fundamentally pure, real and not designated, hence called ultimate truth. Or they are called saṃvṛti-satya and paramārtha-satya. Saṃ- means concealment, and -vṛti means coarse and manifest, referring to coarse, manifest phenomena such as matter and mind concealing the supreme meaning; concealment itself is coarse manifestation, hence it is called saṃvṛti, which is a karmadhāraya compound. 'Param-' means supreme wisdom, and '-artha' means the sense of cognitive object; that is, the principle of tathatā is the objective sphere of supreme wisdom, hence it is called paramārtha, which is a tatpuruṣa compound. Regarding both being called 'truth', as stated in the Yogācārabhūmi, truth has two meanings: first, in accord with their explained characteristics, they are not departed from; second, through contemplating this, one reaches the ultimate place; hence they are called truth. As for the collective title 'Chapter on the Two Truths', this is a dvigu compound. Because the meaning of the two truths is distinguished in this chapter, it is called the 'Chapter on the Two Truths'.