[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) › [維摩經略疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778) › 3.60 # 維摩經略疏 3.60 維摩經略疏 3.60 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.3.60) 問：今言為世所尊者，為以一身入多身為尊、為當託生於彼彼以為尊？答：皆有此義，類如普門現種種身，今正取託疾興教。以長者一身迹能巧用，隨所示處無不尊敬，承機開化無不蒙益，當知長者法身無諸業緣，示物故爾。將證長者身本無疾，為眾生故託疾興教，故須先述前諸方便以為哢胤。齊此結成上來從本垂迹顯本方便形聲益也。 > Question: When it is said here that he was revered by the world, was he revered because he entered into many bodies with a single body, or was he revered because he was born here and there \[in those realms\]? Answer: Both meanings apply. This is analogous to the Universal Gate manifesting diverse bodies. Now we take specifically his feigning illness to inaugurate the teaching. Because the elder's single body was able to function skillfully in its traces, wherever he manifested there was none who did not venerate him; responding to their capacities to instruct and transform them, there was none who did not receive benefit. One should know that the elder's dharmakāya is free from all karmic conditions; he merely manifested thus for the sake of beings. Approaching the demonstration that the elder's body was fundamentally without illness and that he feigned illness to inaugurate the teaching for the sake of sentient beings, one must first recount the aforementioned expedients as a prelude. Here concludes the preceding benefit of forms and sounds, manifesting the fundamental through expedients by tracing down from the fundamental. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.3.59) - [Next: 3.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.3.61) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778~en-mt.3.60) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.3.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.3.60) · Pramāṇa