妙法蓮華經玄義 6.154

6.154

For those who formed connections through the perfect teaching in the past, having been seasoned and ripened in the interim, some have attained the Way and some have not. Now [the Buddha] appears as a buddha in fragmented [birth and death]. Drawn by past conditions, they differ. If they have not attained the Way, right in this place there is one [kind]. Descending from the higher realms, there are two. Coming horizontally from other regions, there are two. Coming from [the land of] expedients, there are also two. Coming from [the land of] true reward, there is one. The examples are as before (and so on).