金光明最勝王經疏 4.5

4.5

釋名者，《成唯識論》云「總攝有為無為功德以為自性，與所修行為勝依持，令得生長，故名為地。」《地持》、《攝論》、《瑜伽》、《莊嚴》釋皆大同。淨謂清淨，離二障故。然《大乘同性》及《證契大乘經》，說其三乘各有十地，菩薩十地能除二障極淨，名最即最淨之地，依主釋也。淨攝能依、地是所依，總為別所依，或十地體即為無為功德為體，即此功德體離二障，名為最淨。最淨即地，名最淨地，持業釋也。陀羅尼名，如前已釋。由此淨地得此陀羅尼，在此陀羅尼能淨此地，俱依主釋。不通相違，以陀羅尼令離五障得名淨地故。若取十度等，但名最淨地；若取陀羅尼，名最淨地陀羅尼。

Regarding explaining the title: the *Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi-śāstra* says, "Synthetically gathering conditioned and unconditioned virtues as their intrinsic nature, serving as the supreme support for the practices cultivated and causing them to arise and grow, they are therefore called 'stages' (bhūmi)." The explanations in the *Bodhisattvabhūmi-dhārakasūtra*, the *Mahāyānasaṃgraha*, the *Yogācārabhūmi*, and the *Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra* are all largely the same. "Purified" means clean and pure, because of being separated from the two obstacles. However, the *Mahāyānasamajñātāsūtra* and the *Mahāyānābhisamayasūtra* state that each of the three vehicles has ten stages. The ten stages of the bodhisattva can eliminate the two obstacles and are extremely pure, so they are termed "utmost"—that is, the most purified of stages; this is a tatpuruṣa compound. "Purified" subsumes that which relies; "stage" is that upon which one relies; the general serves as the locus of reliance for the particular. Alternatively, the essence of the ten stages has the conditioned and unconditioned virtues as its essence, and this essence of virtues is separated from the two obstacles, so it is termed "utmost purified." The utmost purified is itself the stage, hence termed the "utmost purified stages"; this is a karmadhāraya compound. The name "dhāraṇī" has already been explained above. Through these purified stages one attains this dhāraṇī, and within this dhāraṇī one can purify these stages; both are tatpuruṣa compounds. It is not open to [the dvandva compound of] mutual opposition, because the dhāraṇī causes separation from the five obstacles and thus gets the name "purified stage." If one takes the ten perfections and so forth, it is merely named "utmost purified stages"; if one takes the dhāraṇī, it is named "dhāraṇī of the utmost purified stages."