大般涅槃經集解 46.96

46.96

Sengliang notes: The reason why the World-Honoured One Full Moon did not answer there was that the matter was manifested here, where eighty-four thousand beings awakened upon hearing it once. It means that the question was understood on its own without waiting for an explanation. The bodhisattvas of that land felt ashamed of their dullness, and inevitably aspired to be born in that pure land; this was why Vaiḍūryaprabhā made the inquiry. Baoliang says: In all, there are twenty-one lines of verse, clarifying that by practicing the ten virtues and abandoning the ten non-virtues one is born in that land. This first answers the first question.