妙法蓮華經玄贊 2.88

2.88

十七最上法門，攝成就故。攝成就者，攝取無量名句字身，頻婆羅、阿閦婆等偈故。此為根本，攝餘一切名句字義故，名為最上。此乃所詮，是餘能所詮最上法之門，能詮亦是餘能所詮法之門，由攝一切名句字等故。頻婆羅是小乘五十二數中第十八數，阿閦婆是第二十數，此是餘大乘經教偈頌數，此皆能攝故名法門，即是二十千萬億偈。論云「十七句中此是總句，餘是別句。」此經但有三：一無量義體用勝故，二教菩薩法化根熟故，三佛所護念依佛有故，三義增勝故偏說之。

Seventeenth, "the Utmost Sublime Dharma Gate": because of accomplishment through subsumption. Accomplishment through subsumption means subsuming immeasurable collections of names, phrases, and letters, as well as verses of the numbers bimba, akṣobhya, and so forth. Being the foundation, it subsumes all other meanings of names, phrases, and letters; hence it is called "utmost sublime." This is the expressed [meaning], the gate to all other utmost sublime dharmas, both expressing and expressed; what expresses is also the gate to all other expressing and expressed dharmas, because it subsumes all names, phrases, letters, and so forth. Bimba is the eighteenth number among the fifty-two numbers of the Hinayāna, and akṣobhya is the twentieth number; these are the numbers of verses in other Mahāyāna scriptures, all of which this can subsume, hence it is called a Dharma gate—that is, twenty hundred million billion verses. The commentary says: "Among the seventeen phrases, this is the overarching phrase, and the rest are specific phrases." This sūtra has only three: (1) Immeasurable Meanings, because its substance and function are supreme; (2) The Dharma for Teaching Bodhisattvas, because it transforms those of mature faculties; (3) What Buddhas Protect and Keep in Mind, because it exists only in reliance on a buddha. Because these three meanings are preeminent, they are exclusively stated.