阿彌陀經疏 1.11

1.11

Within the purity of the circumstantial fruit, there are two doctrinal gates and six textual sections. The specific and general merits comprise fifteen. There are two doctrinal gates: first, the gate of explaining names; second, the gate of discerning characteristics. As for the six, it is because the gate of names opens into two, and the gate of characteristics divides into four. As for the fifteen specific and general, it is because the specific are fourteen and the general constitutes one. As for the fourteen specific: within the six passages there are four patterns: the first [two] each have one, the last two each have two, the third passage opens into three, and the fourth passage divides into five; therefore, altogether there are fourteen merits.