妙法蓮華經文句 3.24

3.24

From the line, "At that time the Sun," onward, secondly, as for the correspondence of the title of the Dharma preached, it is as in the text. Above, Maitreya saw in other lands the initial sudden [teaching], after the sudden saw the gradual, after the gradual saw various practices, after the practices there was no object, and afterward saw the Buddha's nirvāṇa; now Mañjuśrī answers that the Buddha he once saw initially preached the sudden, after the sudden the gradual, and afterward spoke of various practices, whereupon he saw the Lotus Sūtra. Here and there, after the six portents he had already preached the Lotus Sūtra, and after the Lotus Sūtra he immediately entered nirvāṇa—this clearly and definitively answers the question concerning other lands.