大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 77.22

77.22

Regarding the commentary's words, "Separately, within the doctrinal tenet, distinguishing three gates": first, comprehensively discerning the Buddha's virtues; second, separately revealing the characteristics of their meaning; third, revealing the inconceivable.

Now, in the first, comprehensive discernment, the statement "one hundred and forty unshared [qualities]" has already appeared in the "Chapter on Awakening through Radiance". Here the total number is mentioned again, meaning: the thirty-two marks, eighty secondary signs, four purities of all kinds, ten powers, four fearlessnesses, three stations of mindfulness, three kinds of unguardedness, great compassion, unforgetting nature, eternal elimination of karmic impressions, and wondrous cognition of all modes—making one hundred and forty. The statement "pervading the provisional and the small" means: the Small Vehicle also speaks of them, but their characteristics are inferior; what the provisional Great Vehicle speaks of are all transcendent. In terms of the five teachings, these already constitute two of them.

From "If according to the five dharmas" downward directly clarifies the real teaching, hence it says "pervading the provisional". Both the provisional and the real have them, but in the real teaching they converge into the dharmatā without destroying the characteristics.

From "If it is said to be of only one taste" downward, the second is the sudden teaching.

From "If it is said to be endowed with the inexhaustible" downward, the third is the round teaching.

From "Therefore in the subsequent text" downward, the fourth discerns that the present sūtra is the virtue of the round teaching.