華嚴經探玄記 3.83

3.83

From here on, the second major section discerns the causes for attaining the result, answering the questions in the previous query regarding the ocean of practices cultivated by all bodhisattvas, and so forth. Another interpretation: it is also opening one world-nature from among the previous world-natures to reveal within it all three kinds of realms, five oceans, and so on. In the text, there are four divisions: 1. citing the past time and place, discerning the Buddha's arising in the world as the condition for cultivation; 2. from 'that city of Blazing Radiance' down, clarifying the youth Universal Adornment as the person capable of cultivating; 3. from 'when the youth saw the Buddha' down, discerning confronting conditions to correctly cultivate and achieve the practice of his own stage; 4. from 'after that Buddha entered extinction' down, clarifying seeing Buddhas again to achieve supreme advanced practice.