妙法蓮華經玄贊 6.194

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釋經文者，梵云阿鼻至，此云無間。《瑜伽》云「以彼受苦無間隟故、火無間故，由謗經故。具受一劫，一中劫也。命極至此劫盡，更生。如是展轉至無數劫。」《般若經》中說謗大乘故，此方地獄盡生於東方，如是展轉遍十方獄，十方獄盡還生此中。故此說云如是展轉至無數劫，非但唯墮無間獄中，亦墮餘處，此中偏舉一重處故。此雖一業，從初受為名，但名生報。三乘通逆，謂殺父、害母、殺阿羅漢、出佛身血、破和合僧。其《薩遮尼乾子經》說大乘五逆：一破塔壞寺、焚燒經像、盜用三寶財物。二謗三乘法，言非聖法，障礙留難隱蔽覆藏。三於一切出家人所，有戒無戒持戒破戒，打罵呵責、說其過失、禁閉窂獄。或脫袈裟逼令還俗，責役驅使債其發調，斷其命根。四謂殺父、害母、出佛身血、殺阿羅漢、破和合僧。五起大邪見謗無因果。長夜常行十不善業故，今不信此經，入無間獄已，如是展轉乃至無數。《俱舍論》說：「五逆之中破僧最重，定受無間一劫之苦。」今乃過彼，故言劫盡更生等。

In explaining the text of the sūtra: in Sanskrit it is called Avīci, which here is translated as "Unremitting." The Yogācārabhūmi says: "Because their experiencing of suffering is without interval, and the fire is without interval, due to slandering the sūtra. They fully endure one kalpa, which is one intermediate kalpa. When life reaches its end at the exhaustion of this kalpa, they are reborn again. In this manner they cycle on for countless kalpas." The Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras say that because of slandering the Mahāyāna, when the hells of this region are exhausted, they are born in the east; cycling through the hells of the ten directions in this way, when the hells of the ten directions are exhausted, they are reborn back here. Therefore, this says that in this manner they cycle on for countless kalpas; they do not only fall into the Avīci hell, but also fall into other places, for here one grave place is singled out. Although this is one karma, named from its initial reception, it is only called immediate retribution upon rebirth. The heinous offenses common to the Three Vehicles are: killing one's father, harming one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, and breaking the harmony of the Saṅgha. The Satyakanirgrantha-sūtra speaks of five heinous offenses of the Mahāyāna: first, destroying stūpas, demolishing monasteries, burning sūtras and images, and stealing the property of the Three Jewels; second, slandering the teachings of the Three Vehicles, claiming they are not noble dharmas, obstructing, hindering, suppressing, and concealing them; third, toward all renunciants—whether possessing precepts or without precepts, whether keeping precepts or breaking precepts—beating, reviling, scolding them, exposing their faults, confining them to prison, or stripping them of their kāṣāyas to force them to return to lay life, imposing servitude upon them to extract taxes, or ending their life-faculties; fourth, killing one's father, harming one's mother, shedding the blood of a Buddha, killing an arhat, and breaking the harmony of the Saṅgha; fifth, giving rise to great wrong views and slandering [the truth of] cause and effect. Because through the long night they constantly practiced the ten unwholesome karmas, now having disbelieved this sūtra, after entering the Avīci hell they cycle in this manner for countless [kalpas]. The Abhidharmakośa-śāstra states: "Among the five heinous offenses, breaking the Saṅgha is the gravest, definitively incurring one kalpa of suffering in Avīci." Now [this retribution] surpasses even that, hence it says that upon the exhaustion of the kalpa they are reborn again, and so forth.