金光明經文句記 3.26

3.26

Second, from "The old reading" onward, refuting the ancients for merely reaching phenomenal aspects. The phrase "reading the text" refers to the text in the third fascicle of the *Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa* explaining the ten titles' "Right and Complete Knower" (samyaksaṃbuddha). Thus the treatise asks: "What is the Right and Complete Knower?" Answer: "Knowing suffering, like the characteristics of suffering," and so on. In the old reading of this text, although they interpreted the word *ru* ("like"/"as") as non-different, they were benighted about the Tripiṭaka [Teaching's view] that knowing phenomena according with principle is non-different, and the Mahāyāna view that knowing phenomena as identical to principle is non-different; this caused their explanation of the meaning to reach only phenomena and completely fail to reveal the principle. Furthermore, this text explains the Right and Complete Knower as rightly knowing the ultimate and completely knowing the conventional.