妙法蓮華經玄義 6.3

6.3

Explaining the names also has three parts: 1. Explaining the names; 2. Correlating the explanation with the four siddhāntas; 3. Analysis. As for explaining the names, the Zheng Fahua says: 'In countless worlds, expounding the sūtra dharmas extensively'; what the World-Honoured One does as stimulus and response is like this, so it is now used as the name. Now, in the sūtras, the terms 'capacity' (ji) and 'condition' (yuan) are both alternative designations for 'stimulus' (gan), all referring to sentient beings; for the moment, explaining the meaning from the perspective of capacity makes it easy to see, and the stimulus of conditions can be understood by analogy.