妙法蓮華經玄贊 7.489

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釋名者，「四」者是數，「諦」者實義，唯聖知實，故名四聖諦。苦真是苦，更無異苦等。五十五云：「諦義云何？如所說相不捨離義。由觀此故到清淨究竟義是諦義。」帶數釋也。苦者逼迫，煩惱所生義。集者招感，能生苦諦義。滅者寂靜義，彼俱寂靜義。道者通因，能成三義。三義者，此中苦事、苦理、苦如；乃至道諦有三亦爾。苦事名諦，持業釋。餘二名諦，依主釋。理、如二種，與其苦事雖非一異，然此皆非逼迫等故。

Regarding explaining the names: "Four" is the number; "truth" is the meaning of real. Because only the nobles know the real, they are called the four noble truths. Suffering is truly suffering, without any other suffering, and so on. Fascicle 55 [of the Yogācārabhūmi] says: "What is the meaning of truth? It is the meaning of not departing from the characteristics as taught. The meaning of reaching the culmination of purification by contemplating this is the meaning of truth." This is an explanation that includes a numeral (karmadhāraya with number). / "Suffering" means oppression, that which is produced by afflictions. "Origin" means bringing about, capable of producing the truth of suffering. "Cessation" means quiescence, the meaning of quiescence together with that. "Path" means the cause of passage, capable of bringing about the three meanings. The "three meanings" are here the fact of suffering, the principle of suffering, and the tathatā of suffering; up to the truth of the path having three is also like this. The fact of suffering called truth is a karmadhāraya compound; the other two called truth are tatpuruṣa compounds. Although the two, principle and tathatā, are neither one with nor different from the fact of suffering, nevertheless neither of them is oppressive, and so forth.