妙法蓮華經玄義 4.153

4.153

二、明辟支佛位者，此翻緣覺。此人宿世福厚，神根猛利，能觀集諦以為初門。《大論》稱獨覺、因緣覺。若出無佛世，自然悟道，此即獨覺；若出佛世，聞十二因緣法，稟此得道，故名因緣覺。獨覺生無佛世，有小、有大。若本在學人，今生佛後，七生既滿，不受八生，自然成道，不名為佛，亦非羅漢，名小辟支迦羅。論其道力，不及舍利弗等大羅漢。二者、大辟支迦羅，二百劫中作功德身，得三十二相分，或三十一、三十、二十九，乃至一相。福力增長，智慧利，於總相、別相，能知、能入。久修集定，常樂獨處，故名大辟支迦羅也。若就因緣論小大者，亦應如是分別。此人根利，不須制果，能斷正使，又加侵習，譬如身壯，直到所在，不中止息，故不制果，是名中草位竟。

Second, clarifying the stage of pratyekabuddha: this is translated as 'condition-enlightened'. This person's merit from past lives is profound, their spiritual faculties are keen and sharp, and they can contemplate the truth of origination as their initial gate. The Great Treatise calls them solitarily enlightened (khaḍgaviṣāṇa / pratyekabuddha) and condition-enlightened. If they appear in an era without a buddha and awaken to the path naturally, they are solitarily enlightened; if they appear in an era with a buddha, hear the Dharma of the twelve links of dependent origination, and receive this to attain the path, they are called condition-enlightened. The solitarily enlightened born in an era without a buddha has lesser and greater types. If originally a learner, now born after a buddha, having completed seven births and not receiving an eighth birth, they naturally accomplish the path; they are not called a buddha, nor are they an arhat, but are called a lesser pratyekabuddha. In terms of the power of their path, they do not equal great arhats such as Śāriputra. Second, the greater pratyekabuddha: within two hundred kalpas they form a body of merit, attaining the thirty-two marks partially, or thirty-one, thirty, twenty-nine, down to a single mark. Their power of merit increases, their wisdom is sharp, and they are able to know and enter both general marks and specific marks. Having long cultivated and accumulated concentration, they always delight in solitude; hence they are called greater pratyekabuddhas. If discussing lesser and greater in terms of conditions, it should also be distinguished in this manner. This person's faculties are sharp; there is no need to demarcate fruitions. They are able to sever the principal fetters and moreover attack their residual habits. Just like one of robust body who goes straight to their destination without resting halfway, they do not demarcate fruitions. This concludes the stage of the intermediate grass.