法華文句記 8.28

8.28

龍女是。〈法師品〉中雖無時節，計應非遠。小乘教中尚乃秖云六十百劫出界，但經八六四二雖大小有殊，猶在權教，故實教中六根五品一世可期，乃至《金光明經》一生十地，故南嶽用《普賢觀》意，云六根極遲不出三生，雖四悉赴機隨好長短，論其自行終無端拱。準論即是眾生意樂，意趣意樂正當四悉之初，仍少餘三。若指他佛為平等者，終不及以四悉意也。

The dragon girl is the one. Although no duration of time is mentioned in the "Dharma Master" chapter, by calculation it should not be distant. Even in the Hinayāna teaching it is merely said that one leaves the realm [of saṃsāra] in sixty to a hundred kalpas, and merely passing through eight, six, four, or two [lifetimes]—though there is a difference between the Great and Small, these are still within the provisional teaching. Therefore, in the real teaching, the six faculties and the five grades can be expected within a single lifetime, up to the *Suvarṇaprabhāsa Sūtra* where the ten stages are traversed in a single lifetime. Therefore Nányuè, utilizing the intent of the *Sūtra on the Contemplation of Samantabhadra*, said that the six faculties take at the slowest no more than three lifetimes. Although the four siddhāntas accord with capacities and follow preferences for long or short, when discussing one's own practice, one ultimately never folds one's arms and does nothing. According to the treatise, this is precisely the aspiration of sentient beings; inclination and aspiration correspond precisely to the first of the four siddhāntas, yet it still lacks the remaining three. If one points to other buddhas as being equal, that ultimately falls short of the meaning of the four siddhāntas.