維摩經略疏 8.74

8.74

From "Śāriputra" onward, fourth, explaining that this room has eight unprecedented matters, which are absent from the conceivable of the two vehicles. The text has three parts: first, stating the topic; second, distinguishing the characteristics; third, concluding with a rebuke. As for the first, stating the topic: it is the inconceivable function that the two vehicles do not possess. The present explanation directly parallels the eight inconceivable similes of the great ocean of nirvāṇa in the Nirvāṇa Sūtra; their meanings are largely the same, differing only slightly in the order of names and items and the sequence of their arising.