法華玄論 6.62

6.62

Question: The sūtra text names the three carriages, and demands them according to the text, saying: "May you bestow the goat carriages, deer carriages, and ox carriages in due time." How can you go against the text and claim only that people of the two vehicles demand, while bodhisattvas do not demand? Moreover, one can challenge: if people of the two vehicles demand three, then people of the two vehicles ought to ride three carriages. But people of the two vehicles do not actually ride three, so people of the two vehicles do not demand three either. Moreover, one can challenge: if people of the two vehicles demand the bodhisattva's carriage, then a bodhisattva ought to demand the carriages of the two vehicles. Examining back and forth and exhaustively investigating the text and its meaning, it is best to rely on the traditional view without needing this explanation.