[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法華玄論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1720) › 4.28 # 法華玄論 4.28 法華玄論 4.28 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1720.4.28) 答：辨宗之中以說斯義，明正法為乘者，此乘非因非果始是正也。今就方便用者，以果乘為正。所以然者，果是妙極，因未妙極。經題秤為妙法，故宜以果乘為正也。以標此妙極之果，令三乘人及一切眾生皆修妙因，趣此妙極之果，然後始得明因乘耳。若發趾即明因乘為正者，竟末標所期，知何所趣耶？如人先知寶所，然後修行趣之耳。以此而推，果為正也。此義文已廣明，尋之自見。後見《法華論》釋尚無二何況三耶，明無有二乘涅槃，唯有如來大涅槃名為佛果。故知二乘亦取果乘為正，大乘亦取果乘為正，是以論但舉涅槃也。 > Answer: In discerning the central doctrine, this meaning was already explained: clarifying the correct Dharma as the vehicle, this vehicle being neither cause nor fruit is only then primary. Now, in terms of skillful function, the fruit vehicle is taken as primary. Why is this? The fruit is the wondrous culmination, whereas the cause is not yet the wondrous culmination. The title of the sūtra designates it as the Wondrous Dharma, so the fruit vehicle properly should be taken as primary. By indicating this wondrously culminating fruit, it causes the people of the three vehicles and all sentient beings to cultivate the wondrous cause and head toward this wondrously culminating fruit, after which only then can the causal vehicle be clarified. If from the very beginning one clarified the causal vehicle as primary, never indicating the goal to be attained, what would they know to head toward? It is like a person first knowing the place of jewels and only then undertaking practice to head toward it. Deducing from this, the fruit is primary. This meaning has already been explained extensively in the text, and consulting it one will naturally see it. Later, seeing the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkopadeśa explain "There are not even two, how much less three?"—it clarifies that there is no nirvāṇa of the two vehicles, but only the great nirvāṇa of the Tathāgata, which is named the Buddha-fruit. Hence we know that the two vehicles also take the fruit vehicle as primary, and the Great Vehicle also takes the fruit vehicle as primary; therefore the treatise merely cites nirvāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1720.4.27) - [Next: 4.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1720.4.29) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1720.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1720~en-mt.4.28) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1720.4.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1720.4.28) · Pramāṇa