[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) › 8.73 # 維摩經略疏 8.73 維摩經略疏 8.73 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.8.73) 問：上天云「以因緣法得度我為支佛」，今何得言獨菩薩法？答：此方便教，與而為言屬辟支佛。若了義教，奪而為語支佛無分。所以然者，十二因緣名為佛性，不見佛性豈知根本無明？十住見性，不窮無明尚不了了，何況支佛？當知因緣獨菩薩法。十二因緣即一切文字，故言止此十有二年，初不聞說二乘之法，但聞諸佛菩薩之法。故因緣實相非因非果而因而果，獨是菩薩諸佛之法。 > Question: Above, the goddess said, "For those to be delivered through the Dharma of dependent origination, I act as a pratyekabuddha." How can it be said now that it is exclusively the Dharma of bodhisattvas? Answer: This is an expedient teaching; conceded to be spoken, it belongs to the pratyekabuddha. If it is the definitive teaching, deprived of concessions, the pratyekabuddha has no share in it. Why is this? The twelve links of dependent origination are named buddha-nature; if one does not see buddha-nature, how could one know fundamental ignorance? Seeing the nature at the ten abodes, one has not yet exhausted ignorance and still does not clearly comprehend it, how much less a pratyekabuddha? You should know that dependent origination is exclusively the Dharma of bodhisattvas. The twelve links of dependent origination are all letters, hence she says that dwelling here for ten and two years, she never heard the Dharma of the two vehicles expounded from the start, but heard only the Dharma of buddhas and bodhisattvas. Therefore, the true reality of dependent origination is neither cause nor effect, yet is cause and effect; it is exclusively the Dharma of bodhisattvas and buddhas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.8.72) - [Next: 8.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.8.74) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778~en-mt.8.73) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.8.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1778.8.73) · Pramāṇa