法華義疏 11.169

11.169

亦開二別：一者、此品正明付囑；第二、〈藥王〉已下，奉命宣通。所言「囑累」者，囑謂付囑，累謂憑累。但囑累有二：一、以法付人，謂以大乘妙法付諸菩薩。二、以人付人，以二世眾生付囑四依菩薩，如《金剛波若論》以根未熟菩薩付囑根熟菩薩。今具此二也。《智度論》云「《波若》非祕密法，付囑聲聞；《法華》是祕密法，付囑菩薩」。《論》自釋云「《波若》未明羅漢作佛，但明菩薩作佛，其言易解，故聲聞能通，宜付囑聲聞；《法華》明阿羅漢成佛，於昔教為甚深，聲聞未解，故付囑菩薩」。

It also divides into two: first, this chapter properly explains the entrustment; second, from "Bhaiṣajyarāja" downward, receiving the command to propagate. As for what is called "entrustment" (zhulei), "zhu" means to entrust, and "lei" means to rely upon and burden. However, entrustment has two kinds: first, entrusting the Dharma to persons, meaning entrusting the wondrous Dharma of the Mahāyāna to the bodhisattvas; second, entrusting persons to persons, entrusting sentient beings of the two realms of time to the bodhisattvas of the four reliances, just as the Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā-śāstra entrusts bodhisattvas whose faculties are not yet mature to bodhisattvas whose faculties are mature. Now it possesses both of these. The Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa says: "The Prajñā is not a secret teaching, and is entrusted to the śrāvakas; the Lotus is a secret teaching, and is entrusted to the bodhisattvas." The Treatise itself explains: "The Prajñā does not yet explain that arhats become Buddhas, but only explains that bodhisattvas become Buddhas; its words are easy to understand, so the śrāvakas can propagate it, and it was suitable to entrust it to the śrāvakas. The Lotus explains that arhats become Buddhas, which is extremely profound compared to the past teachings and not yet understood by the śrāvakas, so it is entrusted to the bodhisattvas."