大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 64.40

64.40

On the commentary passage "The hierarchical gradations of vehicles and wisdom are of multiple shallow and deep varieties": "vehicles" refers to the triyāna and the five vehicles. The triyāna contemplating conditions is already as explained above. The five vehicles' humans and devas also take the precepts and goodness as causes and conditions. "Wisdom" refers to prajñā, as cited below. One who contemplates with inferior wisdom attains śrāvaka bodhi, etc. Since the cause and effect are differentiated in the Mahāyāna, its wisdom differs from the Hīnayāna. Regarding "hierarchical gradations", there are again two senses: first, concluding above that they differ according to the vehicle and wisdom; second, just as with a single bodhi, according to the depth of contemplation there are also many gradations; hence it says "multiple varieties".