法華遊意 1.383

1.383

第七者、利益不可思議。如〈分別功德品〉明聞經得十二種利益，始自無量恒河沙菩薩悟無生忍，終則八方世界微塵數眾生發菩提心；如〈調達〉、〈藥王〉、〈妙音〉、〈觀音〉、〈陀羅尼〉、〈妙莊嚴王本事〉、〈普賢勸發〉，總陳八品，得道者不可具陳。謂利益不可思議也。

Seventh, the benefits are inconceivable. As the 'Chapter on the Discrimination of Merits' explains, hearing the sūtra yields twelve kinds of benefits, beginning with bodhisattvas as numerous as the sands of immeasurable Ganges rivers realizing the forbearance of the non-arising of dharmas, and ending with sentient beings numbering the dust motes of the worlds in the eight directions generating the bodhicitta. With the eight chapters set forth together—namely 'Devadatta', 'Bhaiṣajyarāja', 'Gadgadasvara', 'Avalokiteśvara', 'Dhāraṇī', 'Ancient Accounts of King Śubhavyūha', and 'Encouragement of Samantabhadra'—those who attained the Way cannot be fully recounted. This is called the benefits being inconceivable.