法華遊意 1.377

1.377

一者、化主不可思議、餘經或釋迦自說、或四佛共談，至如《法花》十方分身俱來法會，三世等覺同赴鷲山，是以文云「一一方四百萬億那由他國土諸佛如來遍滿其中，如是十方諸佛皆悉來集坐於八方」，此謂現在佛集；多寶佛踊現，明過去佛集。現在有十方佛，過去但明多寶者，《法花論》云「此以略攝廣，明一佛之用總攝過去一切佛用，即與現在廣略互現」。諸大菩薩普會鷲山，謂當來佛集。以三世等覺同赴鷲山，大小諸經未有如斯之盛集，謂化主不可思議也。

First, the transforming master is inconceivable. Other sūtras are either spoken by Śākyamuni himself or discussed jointly by four buddhas; whereas in the Lotus Sūtra, the emanations of the ten directions all arrive at the Dharma assembly, and the equally awakened of the three times gather together at Gṛdhrakūṭa. Hence the text says: 'In each direction, lands of four million nayutas of kotis were filled with Buddha Tathāgatas; all these buddhas of the ten directions gathered and sat in the eight directions.' This refers to the gathering of the buddhas of the present. The welling forth and appearance of Prabhūtaratna Buddha makes clear the gathering of the buddhas of the past. If the present has the buddhas of the ten directions, while the past only mentions Prabhūtaratna, the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkopadeśa states: 'This subsumes the extensive by means of the abridged, explaining that the function of one buddha completely subsumes the function of all buddhas of the past; thus the extensive and abridged mutually manifest with the present.' The great bodhisattvas universally assembling at Gṛdhrakūṭa refers to the gathering of the buddhas of the future. With the equally awakened of the three times gathering together at Gṛdhrakūṭa, among the various sūtras of the Great and Small there has never been such a magnificent assembly; this is called the transforming master being inconceivable.