大般涅槃經集解 15.5

15.5

案僧亮曰：末世通法，非聲聞之位。而以配菩薩者，但以聲聞法服出家，其身正故配之。菩薩樹自正之義也，雖晦迹俗流而清白無染，量同羅漢也。此下八段之第一，配顯四人相也。依聲聞所斷見諦及欲界思惟，以配菩薩斷三界煩惱，始終作二人也。依聲聞為三界思惟，以配菩薩所斷者習，始終作二人，合為四人。僧宗曰：護正法者，不使耶侵毀也。建立者，令法不墜也。憶念者，存而不忘也。智秀曰：此第一段中有三章：此第一總舉數歎德也。

Sengliang states: Propagating the Dharma in the degenerate age is not the station of śrāvakas. Yet correlating it with bodhisattvas is merely because śrāvakas leave home in the Dharma robes and their bodies are upright, so they are correlated. Bodhisattvas establish the principle of self-rectitude; though concealing their traces in the worldly stream, they are pure and unstained, comparable to arhats. This is the first of the eight sections below, correlating and revealing the marks of the four persons. Relying on the śrāvaka's cutting off of seeing the noble truths and desire-realm contemplation to correlate with the bodhisattva's cutting off of afflictions of the three realms, beginning and end make two persons. Relying on the śrāvaka's three-realm contemplation to correlate with that which is cut off by the bodhisattva as traces (vāsanā), beginning and end make two persons, together making four persons. Sengzong states: 'Protecting the True Dharma' means not allowing heterodoxy to invade or destroy it. 'Establishing' means causing the Dharma not to fall. 'Recollecting' means keeping it without forgetting. Zhixiu states: In this first section there are three passages: this first passage generally brings up the number and praises their virtues.