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維摩經略疏垂裕記 7.201

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7.201

Third, the demon comes and is not recognized. Regarding "the surname among humans": its origination is as in the *Notes on the Nirvāṇa Sūtra*. Regarding "causing him to transmit the teaching": Jingxi says: "Causing him now to transmit the teaching to speak on prajñā." Regarding "this also being the three virtues": the eternal dharmakāya, prajñā (the life of wisdom), and liberation (the wealth of Dharma). Regarding "not knowing which of the five kinds of three stabilities to speak of": having broken heavenly pleasures, one should only speak to him of the three stabilities of the Tripiṭaka [teaching]. But the capacity of the heavenly lord is difficult to determine definitively: after desires are destroyed, must it necessarily be the Tripiṭaka? Since it applies to all four capacities, it is not definitively determined.

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