淨名玄論 5.18

5.18

Question: Why does the Pañcaviṃśati take object and cognition as saṃskṛta and asaṃskṛta as primary, while the Nirvāṇa takes cause and effect as saṃskṛta and asaṃskṛta as primary? Answer: The Pañcaviṃśati speaks of the bodhisattva's practice: dharmatā produces prajñā, and due to prajñā there is upāya; therefore it takes object and cognition as primary. The Nirvāṇa directly clarifies fruitional attainment; therefore, from saṃsāra up through the causal stages, all is impermanent, and only the Tathāgata's dharmakāya is eternally permanent. The Nirvāṇa directly distinguishes fruitional phenomena; hence taking cause and effect as saṃskṛta and asaṃskṛta is its primary doctrine. The teaching of the Nirvāṇa arose directly for the sake of the attachment to impermanence; hence it discloses eternal permanence. As for the three and the one, and emptiness and existence, the previous teachings had already clarified them, so it only states them briefly.