法華義疏 6.41

6.41

'Also with many attendants serving and guarding it': this is the third part, explaining the attendants. Since the myriad virtues of the fruition of buddhahood serve as the carriage, the Buddha is the person who mounts the carriage; those who practice according to the teaching revere and attend him like a forest. Therefore the verse below says: 'Delighting the Buddha, praised, made offerings to, and saluted by all living beings'—this is precisely the meaning of attendants. If considered in terms of the causal carriage: since this passage clarifies the stage of the adept (aśaikṣa) having already exited the house, here one begins to mount the carriage; from trainees (śaikṣa) on down, all serve as attendants.