阿彌陀經通贊疏 1.43

1.43

答：「准處准機，應聲聞而為化佛；准文准理，教菩薩而即報身。感者根器不同，應現故通報化。王城鷲嶺劫盡火燒，鶖子聞經即化佛也。我土安穩壽量長遠，文殊在中即報身。劬師羅長者覩三尺以發心；五百婆羅門見灰身而起信；無邊之菩薩窮上界而有餘；住小聖之凡夫觀丈六而無無盡。今顯主尊教隨定勝，初標教主令生喜心。」

Answer: "According to the place and the faculties, responding to the śrāvakas it is a transformation Buddha; according to the text and the principle, teaching the bodhisattvas it is the reward body. Because the capacities of those who respond vary, the manifestation encompasses both reward and transformation. When the royal city and Vulture Peak are burned at the end of the kalpa, Śāriputra hearing the sūtra is [facing] the transformation Buddha. When our land is secure and lifespan is enduring, Mañjuśrī dwelling within is [facing] the reward body. The elder Ghoṣila aroused the aspiration upon seeing a three-cubit [body]; five hundred brahmins generated faith upon seeing the body of ashes; boundless bodhisattvas exhaust the upper realms and yet find [virtue] in excess; ordinary beings dwelling in the small sagehood contemplate the sixteen-foot [body] and find it inexhaustible. Now, revealing that the master is supreme and the teaching is unfailingly excellent, the master of the teaching is first indicated to cause the mind of joy to arise."