大般涅槃經集解 47.4

47.4

Sengliang notes: Above, it was said that conditioned productive causes are impermanent, while nirvāṇa is attained from a revealing cause and is therefore permanent. If so, the twelve divisions of the canon are all revealing causes of nirvāṇa. That is to say, in this sūtra, the text is profound and its meaning is esoteric, not what the two vehicles can hear; in the sūtras of the śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas, there is no mention of icchantikas having the buddhadhātu. The reason this matter is spoken of again is to prompt the question from the Noble Virtue King.