大般涅槃經義記 4.341

4.341

In explaining the first person, there are six clauses: First, clarifying the amount of fetters that person has severed: namely, severing three fetters—personality view, attachment to rules and rituals, and doubt. Question: The sūtra states that the defilements severed by a srotāpanna are like forty li of water, while those remaining are like a single drop on a hair; why does it now speak only of severing three? This meaning will be explained later in the Kāśyapa section. Second, clarifying what is attained: attaining the fruit of a srotāpanna, the meaning of which is explained below. Third, clarifying what is escaped: not falling into the three wretched [realms]. Fourth, clarifying the temporal distance of that person's attainment of extinction: seven returns among humans and devas to enter nirvāṇa; seven returns means fourteen births and deaths, and if counting the intermediate state (antarābhava), it is twenty-eight births, after which one enters Hīnayāna nirvāṇa. Fifth, from 'this is called' onward, concludes. Sixth, clarifying the temporal distance of that person's heading toward the Great [Vehicle]: after eighty thousand kalpas, attaining great bodhi, which means attaining bodhi on the gotra stage. Question: Bodhi should pertain to the ultimate fruit; how can the gotra stage already be called bodhi? Explanation: Bodhi has a comprehensive sense and a restricted sense; in the restricted sense it is in the final state, while in the comprehensive sense it covers the beginning and the end. Thus in the *Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra* it is proclaimed that bodhi has five distinctions: generating the mind, subduing [the mind], clarifying [the mind], emerging and arriving, and the unsurpassable. Generating the mind is in the position of the good destinies; subduing the mind is from the gotra stage onward; clarifying is on the [ten] grounds; emerging and arriving is from the seventh ground onward; and unsurpassable is in the Buddha. Therefore, from the gotra stage onward it may be called bodhi.