大方廣佛華嚴經疏 21.4

21.4

二釋名者，會名有三：一約處名夜摩天宮會。夜摩，此云時分，即空居之首，表十行涉有化物宜適其時，時而後言聞者悅伏，時而後動見者敬從。涉有依空、即事入玄，託此而說。約人名功德林，約法名十行會，並如後釋。三皆依主。次品名者，大同於會。然梵本中，上無升字、下有神變，譯者以升為神變。升為神變，略有四義：一不離前三而升此故、二升一處即升一切處故、三升已廣其處故、四前後同時無障礙故。謂佛以圓遍之身，不起而升時分天宮。升屬如來，夜摩約處，相違釋也。前升須彌，後升兜率，準此可知。

Second, as for explaining the names: the assembly has three names: First, in terms of place, it is called the Assembly in the Palace of the Yama Heaven. Yama here is translated as "Time Division"; it is the foremost of the aerial dwellings, signifying that the ten practices engage in phenomenal existence to transform living beings in a manner suitable to their proper time. Speaking only after the right time, those who hear are pleased and submit; acting only after the right time, those who see revere and follow. Engaging in phenomenal existence while relying on emptiness, and entering the profound right through phenomena, it is expounded based on this. In terms of the person, it is named Guṇākara (Forest of Merits); in terms of the Dharma, it is named the Assembly of the Ten Practices; all are explained as below. All three are tatpuruṣa compounds. Next, the chapter name is largely the same as the assembly. However, in the Sanskrit text, the character "ascending" does not appear above, and below there is "spiritual transformation" (vikurvaṇa); the translators rendered "spiritual transformation" as "ascending". Ascending as a spiritual transformation has roughly four meanings: first, because [the Buddha] ascends here without leaving the prior three; second, because ascending to one place is ascending to all places; third, because having ascended, he broadens that place; fourth, because before and after are simultaneous and unobstructed. That is to say, with a perfectly pervasive body, without rising [the Buddha] ascends to the palace of the Time Division Heaven. "Ascending" belongs to the Tathāgata, and "Yama" is in terms of the place; this is a dvandva compound. The previous ascending Mount Sumeru and the subsequent ascending Tuṣita can be understood by analogy with this.