維摩經玄疏 3.97

3.97

First, clarifying the stages and explaining the meaning of Pure, Stainless, and Name in terms of the Tripiṭaka teaching: examining the Buddha's Tripiṭaka teaching in responding to capacities, there are many avenues, but speaking of its main essentials, they do not exceed four gates of entering the path: first, the gate of existence; second, the gate of emptiness; third, the gate of existence and emptiness; fourth, the gate of neither existence nor emptiness. Now we precisely use the gate of existence in the Abhidharma to classify the stages; as the three gates' clarification of the bodhisattva's meaning does not cross over, how could one discuss them in error! Now explaining the meaning of Pure, Stainless, and Name in terms of the gate of existence has three sections: first, clarifying the opening of the three vehicles; second, briefly clarifying the bodhisattva stages distinguished in the Tripiṭaka teaching; third, explaining the names Pure, Stainless, and Name.