妙法蓮華經玄義 4.196

4.196

The stage of the great tree is the stage of the distinctive teaching. This has three parts: 1. Showing the variations among sūtras and treatises; 2. Explaining the stages in general; 3. Explaining the stages in detail. In this distinctive teaching, names, meanings, principles, delusions, wisdom, and severances are all distinctive. This precisely discusses the sequence of stages in terms of causal-and-conditional provisional names, buddha dharmas as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, the principle of the tathāgatagarbha, the eternally abiding nirvāṇa, and the immeasurable four truths.