法華玄論 3.12

3.12

Answer: If the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra primarily elucidates Buddha-nature yet also clarifies that the three vehicles together contemplate the middle way, and Prajñā primarily elucidates the dharma for teaching bodhisattvas yet also exhorts the three vehicles to study prajñā together, these meanings ought to be equal—how can they not be parallel? Furthermore, citing the Dazhidulun's discrimination of the ten kinds of great sūtras, it clarifies that Prajñā is the most supreme; since it surpasses the Lotus Sūtra, how could it be shallower than the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra and others?