[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法華義疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1721) › 8.195 # 法華義疏 8.195 法華義疏 8.195 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.195](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1721.8.195) 亦例。但〈譬喻品〉意，宅內本三十子，不可但以一乘化之。故衣裓等救不得，為說三車便得。今二使正為二乘作譬，故一使喚不得，二使喚便得也。二者，云「一乘是真實三乘是方便」者，而以方便密遣二人，故二乘是方便，脫珍御服著弊垢衣，以是方便得近其子，此之佛乘亦是方便。所以然者，無有從凡夫身於道樹下始得成聖，為二乘故方便示現也。 > That is also analogous. However, the intention of the "Parable Chapter" was that there were originally thirty sons in the house, who could not be converted solely by the ekayāna. Thus, saving them with the cloth pouch and the like did not succeed, but speaking to them of the three carriages succeeded. Here, the two emissaries specifically serve as a parable for the two vehicles; thus, summoning with one emissary did not succeed, but summoning with two emissaries succeeded. Second, as for saying "the ekayāna is real and the triyāna is an expedient means": yet by means of expedient means he secretly dispatched two persons, so the two vehicles are expedient means; shedding his fine garments and putting on ragged, dirty clothes, by this expedient means he was able to approach his son—this Buddha vehicle is also an expedient means. Why is this? There is no such thing as newly becoming a sage from an ordinary body beneath the Bodhi tree; for the sake of the two vehicles, he provisionally manifested it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.194](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1721.8.194) - [Next: 8.196](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1721.8.196) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1721.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1721~en-mt.8.195) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1721.8.195](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1721.8.195) · Pramāṇa