法華玄論 2.80

2.80

Answer: This is merely a notion born of human sentiment, not the Buddha's meaning. In the Buddha's sūtra, the preceding verse explains non-true extinction and the subsequent verse distinguishes true extinction; how could one take this to match the meaning of the one vehicle? If one were to use this text to explain that the one vehicle is without the three marks, the preceding text ought to have said that the three vehicles are not true extinction, and should not have said that nirvāṇa is not true extinction.