維摩經玄疏 5.129

5.129

Third, that the liberation of expedient means is the path of karma: Mañjuśrī states, 'The ten paths of unwholesome action are the seed.' This is the seed of the conditioning cause, the seed of the liberation of expedient means. The seed is nature; hence the Nirvāṇa Sūtra states: 'The twelve links of dependent origination are called the buddha-nature'—that is, the three paths of the twelve links of dependent origination are the three kinds of buddha-nature of the three paths.