維摩經玄疏 6.44

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6.44

Second, clarifying the combination of the ultimate truth with the conventional truth, where only the middle way is taken as the ultimate truth—clarifying this ultimate truth is precisely the two truths of the distinctive teaching. As for what is called combining the ultimate truth with the conventional truth to constitute conventional truth, the Mahānirvāṇa Sūtra states: "When I, together with Maitreya, spoke conventional truth, five hundred śrāvakas all thought that we were speaking paramārtha-satya." These are the two truths of the distinctive teaching. There can also be three kinds of two truths, which can be known by analogy with the preceding.

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