觀無量壽佛經疏 4.29

4.29

Second, explaining reading and reciting the Mahāyāna: this explains that the natures and habits of sentient beings are different, and their adherence to teachings varies. The first person above merely took cultivating compassion and upholding precepts as their ability; next, the second person takes only reading and reciting the Mahāyāna as correct. Now precepts can uphold the faculties of the five vehicles and the three Buddhas, while the Dharma perfumes and forms the wisdom of the myriad practices of the three stages of worthies and ten bhūmis. If compared in terms of virtue and function, each has its single capacity. This corresponds to the third line of the third blessing above: 'reading and reciting the Mahāyāna.'