無量壽經連義述文贊 2.40

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經曰「今日天尊行如來德」者，述云：此第五念也。天尊者，即第一義天，以解佛性不空義故。即唯佛所有不共佛法，名如來德，餘聖所無，故以如來德釋天尊之名。雖遠法師名德別解，今即以德釋名者，觀此經文順標釋義故。名者，世尊世雄等。德者，即奇特所住等。

The sūtra says: “Today the Honoured of Heaven practices the Tathāgata's virtue.” The commentary states: This is the fifth recollection. The Honoured of Heaven is the deva of the primary meaning, which explains the sense of the Buddha-nature being not empty. That is, the unshared Buddha-dharmas belonging solely to the Buddha are called the Tathāgata's virtue, which no other noble ones possess; hence the Tathāgata's virtue is used to explain the name Honoured of Heaven. Although Master Yuan gave a separate explanation of name and virtue, here virtue explains the name because, looking at this sūtra text, it accords with the principle of indicating and then explaining. The names are “the World-Honoured One,” “the Hero of the World,” and so forth. The virtues are the exceptional, what is abided in, and so forth.