大般涅槃經集解 64.32

64.32

Sengliang comments: The answer to the question proceeds first generally and then specifically. Within the general [exposition] there are two turns: first extensive, then concise; this is the concise division. Above, it was said that beings have ignorance and wisdom, their faculties are not uniform, and the names and meanings of dharmas are not fixed, so the teaching cannot be fixed. Here it is said that the confused people of the later age do not understand the purport of the teaching and spontaneously give rise to disputatious arguments; this is not the Buddha's fault. It is not that he taught the twelve divisions of the canon for just a single disposition; because the dispositions and actions of sentient beings are not uniform, the sūtras comprise twelve divisions, citing all Buddhas as proof. Sengzong comments: From here below is the third section, extensively explaining the disputatious arguments. The fifth, the power of understanding, refers to the power of knowing dispositions among the ten powers.