[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [花嚴經文義綱目](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1734) › 1.40 # 花嚴經文義綱目 1.40 花嚴經文義綱目 1.40 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1734.1.40) 第八會在舍衛國祇樹給孤獨園重閣講堂。為表所顯法界法門，當體希奇功用濟物。用依體起，似閣重重成，故託斯處也。問：從人向上，次應先至四天王。越彼而昇忉利，有何別意？答：十信寄在人間，十住乃居山頂。信是外凡菩薩，住是不退賢人。欲表賢愚進退兩位懸殊故，寄越此四天王處。問：兜率會了，次臨化樂，越昇他化復有何意？答：兜率位當迴向，世間修相已終。他化行有十階，出世真如今證。既世間出世間為異，漏與無漏有殊，假修真證絕懸，故表超於化樂。問：何須重會？復以何義唯會普光？答：普光是起信之首，歷位至於他化。今明位中之行，行修從首，理宜會此。但以位相約解，寄會昇沈；行就理玄，一位相攝，故唯會此處。 > The eighth assembly is in the multi-storied lecture hall in Anāthapiṇḍada's park in the Jeta Grove in Śrāvastī. To express that the dharma-gate of the dharmadhātu revealed here is inherently wondrous and functions to deliver beings; and since function arises based on essence, resembling the layered construction of a multi-storied hall, it therefore relies on this place. Question: Ascending upward from humanity, next one should first reach the Four Heavenly Kings. In skipping over them to ascend to Trāyastriṃśa, what distinct meaning is there? Answer: The ten faiths are lodged in the human world, while the ten abodes dwell at the summit of the mountain. Faith belongs to external ordinary bodhisattvas, while the abodes belong to non-retrogressing worthies. To express that the two stages of worthy and foolish, progress and regression, are far apart, it lodges in skipping over the place of the Four Heavenly Kings. Question: When the Tuṣita assembly concluded, next was Nirmāṇarati; what is the meaning of skipping over to ascend to Paranirmitavaśavartin? Answer: The stage of Tuṣita corresponds to dedication of merit, where the worldly marks of cultivation have ended. In Paranirmitavaśavartin, practice has ten steps, and supramundane true suchness is now realized. Since mundane and supramundane are different, defiled and undefiled are distinct, and provisional cultivation and true realization are utterly far apart, it expresses surpassing Nirmāṇarati. Question: Why was a reconvened assembly needed? Furthermore, for what reason did it reconvene only at Universal Light? Answer: Universal Light is the beginning of giving rise to faith, traversing the stages up to Paranirmitavaśavartin. Now, clarifying practice within the stages, the cultivation of practice proceeds from the beginning, so in principle it is fitting to assemble here. It is only because the stages are explained in terms of understanding that ascending and descending are lodged in the assemblies; but practice accords with profound principle, one stage mutually subsuming another, so it reconvenes only in this place. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1734.1.39) - [Next: 1.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1734.1.41) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1734.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1734~en-mt.1.40) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [新譯華嚴經七處九會頌釋章](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1738.1.27) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1734.1.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1734.1.40) · Pramāṇa