法華文句記 1.28

1.28

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.