[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大般涅槃經義記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764) › 4.56 # 大般涅槃經義記 4.56 大般涅槃經義記 4.56 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4.56) 「譬如」已下明諸菩薩依經解見，先喻，次合，後嘆勸學。喻中先順，「若無」下反就順喻中法身如空，「震雷」喻於《大涅槃經》，從真現應普覆世間名為「起雲」，「一切象牙」喻眾生心。人傳外國上象有三：一優鉢羅象、二拘物頭象、三分陀利象。此等皆悉從牙以別，於天雷時牙上有其優鉢羅華文像生者，說之以為優鉢羅象，餘二亦爾。以此等一切象牙喻眾生心，眾生心中佛性顯了故言「生華」。下反喻中，佛未宣說《涅槃經》時名「無雷震」，眾生心中性不顯了名「華不生」，性不顯故，唯得宣說眾生無我，不得言我故「無名字」。 > From 'for example' downward, it explains that bodhisattvas understand and see relying on the sūtra: first the simile, next the correlation, and then praising and encouraging study. In the simile, it is first direct; from 'if there is no' downward is reverse. In the direct simile, the dharmakāya is like space; 'peal of thunder' analogises the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra; manifesting response from the true to universally cover the world is called 'raising clouds'; 'all elephant tusks' analogises the minds of sentient beings. Tradition relates that in foreign lands superior elephants are of three kinds: first, utpala elephants; second, kumuda elephants; third, puṇḍarīka elephants. These are all distinguished by their tusks: at the time of celestial thunder, when the pattern-image of the utpala flower appears on the tusk, it is spoken of as an utpala elephant; the remaining two are also like this. Using all these elephant tusks to analogise the minds of sentient beings, when the buddha-nature in the minds of sentient beings is revealed, it is said that 'flowers are produced'. In the reverse simile below, when the Buddha has not yet proclaimed the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, it is called 'no peal of thunder'; when the nature in the minds of sentient beings is not revealed, it is called 'flowers are not produced'; because the nature is not revealed, one can only preach that sentient beings have no self and cannot speak of a self, hence there is 'no name'. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4.55) - [Next: 4.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4.57) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764~en-mt.4.56) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1764.4.56) · Pramāṇa