維摩經略疏垂裕記 5.20

5.20

Third, to support and complete the Buddha land. Regarding "as Śāriputra himself recounted," that is, answering the Brahmā King: "I see this land as full of filth and evils." Regarding "Jingming to the fault of," this refutes the fault of the five hundred clinging to the small, not pointing solely to Śāriputra; hence it says below that each felt ashamed. Regarding "enabling them to take part in the assembly," because formerly they were reproached and refuted, they covertly developed admiration for the great, using this as a condition to enable them to take part in this assembly. Regarding "hearing this exposition," this refers to hearing of the Buddha land. Regarding "their sentiments being identical to the five hundred," they were identical to those five hundred elders wishing to hear and attain the purity of the Buddha land. Because it was not yet revealed in body and speech, it is called "sentiments being identical." From "and the lamp" down, borrowing a seat from the King of Lamps, seeking food from Gandhakūṭa, and showing his fundamental abode in Akṣobhya: as the Hinayana witnessed this with their own eyes, the meaning of the Buddha land was revealed, and the purport of the explanation of supporting and completing becomes evident.