大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 27.13

27.13

Regarding the Commentary's statement: "If we rely on the former interpretation, then it is the translator's ingenuity": since the encirclers and the encircled are so numerous, merely saying "as above" abbreviates the wording, hence it is called "ingenuity." Although there are two interpretations, the intent of the Commentary favors the second interpretation, merely using the dust motes of ten Buddha lands as the encirclers, in order to accord with the sūtra's overarching tenet of revealing the inexhaustible, and because the structural conventions before and after are uniformly of this kind. The rest is as in the Commentary text, which can be seen upon careful examination.