大般涅槃經集解 36.17

English (machine translation) 36.17

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36.17

Sengliang states: “The fundamental source relied upon” refers to first stating the causes and conditions and afterwards speaking the verse. Sengzong states: Verses are spoken for the sake of causes and conditions; causes and conditions are not taken as verses. Baoliang states: Whenever someone committed a transgression, precepts were formulated based on the incident; hence it is named “causes and conditions.” Through these causes and conditions of formulating precepts, it is distinguished from the other divisions.

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