維摩經略疏 3.54

3.54

"When among court officials, he was honored among court officials, transforming and governing the women of the palace": by the national laws of foreign countries, those who have not committed sexual misconduct for seven generations and possess virtue are made court officials, entrusted to enter the palace to manage internal affairs as intimate confidants. Vimalakīrti manifested the supreme, flawless state in his trace, being honored by them. Palace women, being constrained from without, generate improper thoughts within, which cover their past roots of goodness; the Mahāsattva, responding to their capacities, preached the four eightfold paths, causing them to attain right view and leading them into the four lands.