大般涅槃經集解 64.6

64.6

Baoliang comments: In total he lists twenty pairs and forty parties to the dispute, asking the Buddha to explain them. Daohui's records state: In Kāśyapa's question there are forty controversies in all; paired together two by two they make twenty, though within the chapter headings there are actually forty-two. In combining the chapter headings, the two clauses of the nineteenth state: "either explaining that the buddhadhātu exists immediately in sentient beings, or that it exists apart from sentient beings; or explaining that those who commit the four gravest offenses, the five heinous deeds, or are icchantikas all possess the buddhadhātu, or explaining that they do not." Combining these two clauses makes forty.