法華義疏 4.60

4.60

In the single assembly on Vulture Peak, those who turned from the small entered the great, and the bodhisattvas entered the ekayāna together; prior to that, he had conferred prophecies of Buddhahood upon bodhisattvas who proceeded directly. Throughout this one lifetime of appearing in the world, he caused universally only these two kinds of people to attain Buddhahood, and this constituted the fulfillment of the vow for this lifetime, as proven by the passage cited above from the "Emerging from the Earth Chapter." In terms of the principal intent: prior to the Lotus Sūtra, he could only expound the Buddha vehicle for the solitary bodhisattva, so the Buddha's vow was not yet fulfilled; now, he expounds it for beings of the five vehicles and the six destinies and causes them all to attain Buddhahood, so the Buddha's vow is fulfilled. Furthermore, expounding the ekayāna for people expresses the Buddha's intent, and is thus also called "fulfillment."