法華玄論 3.76

3.76

Answer: All Mahāyāna sūtras explain the path without difference, which means that in revealing the real they are all the same. However, at the time of the Prajñāpāramitā and the Vimalakīrti, the spiritual capacities and conditions of those of the two vehicles were not yet mature, so the provisional could not yet be opened. By the time of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra, the spiritual capacities and conditions of those of the two vehicles were finally mature, so only then could the provisional be opened. One must not say that because the provisional was not yet opened, the real was also not yet revealed; the Prajñāpāramitā and the Vimalakīrti delineate the bodhisattva's unobstructed path to the utmost and without remainder—how could the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka's delineation of bodhisattva practice surpass this?