維摩經略疏 2.25

2.25

"He was seated [upon the lion seat]… [surpassing all] the great assembly": third, the correlation of the simile. "Jewels" are the principle of the myriad virtues of the Dharma-nature; the seat of fearlessness is the emptiness of all dharmas: this constitutes the fearless, empty seat of myriad virtues. The sublime majesty of his physical marks matches the seat, which symbolizes how the wondrous subtlety of actual wisdom accords with the fearless, empty principle of myriad virtues. This correlates with the simile of Mount Sumeru. "Surpassing all the great assembly" clarifies that preaching the Great Teaching eclipses the erroneous understandings of the multitude; by unifying them in his true understanding, he surmounts all heterodox and inferior [views], and the four gates together become the understanding of the four gates of the Great Vehicle. This correlates with the simile of towering above the great ocean.