大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 80.48

80.48

On the Commentary's "This is called lofty without anything superior, vast beyond any limit": this reveals the meaning of loftiness and vastness. This and the subsequent "vastly encompassing heaven and earth," etc., are all passages from Master Zhao's Treatise on the Namelessness of Nirvāṇa, in the section on "Status and Essence." That text says: "The sūtra says: 'The way of bodhi cannot be measured: lofty without anything superior, vast beyond any limit, profound without any bottom, deep beyond fathomability, vastly encompassing heaven and earth, minutely entering into the gapless.'"