[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1709) › 3.172 # 仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏 3.172 仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏 3.172 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1709.3.172) 問：色中有大小，許小能容大；時中有短長，長劫應入短。答：此無過難。佛得希有，延促自在，促多劫為一劫、延一劫為多劫，如是等文成證非一。若爾，一劫延為三、三劫促為一，一三無定量，此豈不違文便違佛說，菩薩要經三無數劫，具修萬行證大菩提？此難不然。果德自在，非因境故。《顯揚》、《瑜伽》皆作是說，於不思議強思量者得誑亂報。從此第三結不思議。 > Question: In matter there are large and small, and you permit that the small can contain the large; in time there are short and long, so should a long eon enter a short one? Answer: There is no fault or difficulty in this. The Buddha has attained the extraordinary mastery of lengthening and shortening, shortening many eons into one eon and lengthening one eon into many eons. Passages such as these providing proof are not just one. \[Objection:\] If so, lengthening one eon into three and shortening three eons into one means that one and three have no fixed measure. Would this not contradict the texts and contradict what the Buddha taught, that a bodhisattva must pass through three incalculable eons, fully cultivating the myriad practices, to realize great bodhi? \[Reply:\] This objection is incorrect. The mastery of the virtues of the fruit is not the domain of the cause. The Xianyang and the Yogācāra both say that one who forcibly speculates about the inconceivable receives the retribution of delusion and madness. Next, the third: concluding with the inconceivable. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.171](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1709.3.171) - [Next: 3.173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1709.3.173) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1709.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1709~en-mt.3.172) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1709.3.172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1709.3.172) · Pramāṇa