法華玄論 6.38

6.38

Answer: During the three requests, it was generally clarified that the entire great assembly had doubts and regrets, not Śāriputra alone; hence they can correspond to them. Furthermore, although the parables are now spoken specifically for people of middling and lower faculties, yet in each cycle the Buddha generally outlines the overarching meaning of his single teaching career, universally for all, and even for sentient beings of the latter age, to make them recognize the provisional and real meanings of the one and the three.