法華文句記 1.28

1.28

「光宅轉細」者，如東安法師（唐東陽永安寺曠法師）講三論及《法華》等諸經，並著章疏。貞觀十三年正月十五日入滅，反屈三指，即第三果人也。著《法華疏》四卷。初云：自梁陳已來解釋《法華》，唯以光宅獨擅其美，後諸學者一概雷同。雲師雖往文藉仍存，吾鑽仰積年，唯見文句紛繁、章段重疊，尋其文義未詳旨趣。今對雲義以研法實，大師專破，良有以也。故知雲公望前轉繁，今家處中無彼二失，但存大旨不事繁碎。

Regarding 'Guangzhai became even more minute', for instance, Dharma Master Dong'an (Dharma Master Kuang of Yong'an Temple in Dongyang of the Tang) lectured on the Three Treatises, the *Lotus Sūtra*, and other sūtras, and composed commentaries and subcommentaries on them. When he entered extinction on the fifteenth day of the first month in the thirteenth year of the Zhenguan era, he curled back three fingers, indicating a person of the third fruit. He authored a four-fascicle *Commentary on the Lotus Sūtra*. In the beginning it says: 'Since the Liang and Chen dynasties, among those interpreting the *Lotus Sūtra*, Guangzhai alone held preeminence, and later scholars followed him like rolling thunder without exception. Although Master Fa’yun has passed away, his written works still remain; I have drilled and looked up to them for years, but saw only chaotic words and phrases, and redundant, overlapping sections; probing his textual meaning, I could not comprehend the main purport. Now, setting myself against Master Yun's meanings to investigate the reality of the Dharma, that the Great Master specifically refuted him indeed had good reason.' Therefore, we know that Master Yun became increasingly prolix compared to predecessors; our school abides in the middle, free of those two faults, merely preserving the great purport without engaging in tedious fragmentation.