維摩經略疏 2.159

2.159

"The entire great assembly sighed at what had never been seen before": Not only had they not seen it when the śrāvaka sūtras were expounded, but earlier, when the various vaipulya [sūtras] were expounded, they mostly revealed the direct retribution; revealing the circumstantial retribution of the pure land was never like this. "And each saw themselves seated on a jeweled lotus flower": This indicates that all of this great assembly possess the principle for being born in a pure land, or that they will be born there in the future.