觀無量壽佛經疏 4.6

4.6

Now, the meaning of these eleven gates corresponds to the text of the nine levels. Each single level has these eleven, thus making one hundred and ten items of meaning. Furthermore, this meaning of eleven gates can be generally discriminated before the text of the upper grade, or can each be discriminated before the texts of the middle and lower grades. Moreover, if this meaning is examined against the text, there are cases of being complete or incomplete. Although there is implicit and explicit [expression], in terms of principle all should be present. For this reason, it is necessary to broadly open and reveal them, wishing to enable practitioners who rely on them to easily understand and recognize them. Although above there are eleven different gates, the detailed discrimination of the meaning of the three levels of the upper grade is concluded.