法華玄論 8.80

8.80

Appraising this: This is merely the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra explaining that five persons generate the aspiration and leave the five stages; it is not the meaning here. Why is this so? Everything above explained the meaning of provisional and real, and the present parable also explains the provisional and real. Crossing three hundred to establish the conjured city is the provisional; crossing five hundred to reach the place of jewels is called the real; therefore the conjured city is abandoned and they advance to the place of jewels. If explaining crossing five persons, these are all parables of advancing to the place of jewels, losing the meaning of the parable of establishing the conjured city; hence this is not an explanation.