仁王經疏 3.5

3.5

Exposition: The second section from here onward directly explains according to the text. Being able to protect the buddha-fruit and the practice of the ten bhūmis are both internal protections. Protecting the realms of humans and devas is external protection. The two kinds of internal protection having been explained above, the "Protection of the State Chapter" is now clarified second. According to the Original Commentary, it is divided into four: first, the practice method; second, what can protect; third, citing evidence; fourth, obtaining benefits. The practice method has three: first, admonishing to listen; second, exhorting to uphold; third, explaining protection. This corresponds to the former two, as can be understood from the sūtra. Now it is explained: it is not so. Within this one chapter, the text has three parts: first, commanding to listen and exhorting to uphold; next, from "when a state" onward, extensively explaining the method of protection; finally, from "at that time, Śākya[muni]" onward, discerning the assembly obtaining benefits. This is the first. Admonishing to listen, consenting to speak, and exhorting to uphold can be understood from the sūtra.