法華文句記 9.89

9.89

This is at the end of the transmission section of the trace gate. Previously, it already clarified that after the Buddha's passing, the merit of propagating the sūtra is deep: past buddhas verified the sūtra, and the present Buddha attained the path; the benefit of proclaiming and circulating it in this land and other directions across twenty thousand and eighty myriad kotis [of lands] is immeasurable. That persons obtain wondrous merit is truly due to the reality of the Dharma; therefore at the end of the transmission section it re-distinguishes what is transmitted. What is transmitted? It is the opening and revealing of the three cycles; hence it raises the wheel-turning king subduing the army with awe and gaining merit: because merits have large and small, what is bestowed is not the same.