楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 4.266

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大慧菩薩說偈問已，復白佛言：「惟願世尊為我等說食、不食肉功德過惡。我及諸菩薩於現在、未來當為種種希望食肉眾生分別說法，令彼眾生慈心相向。得慈心已，各於住地清淨明了，疾得究竟無上菩提。聲聞、緣覺自地止息已，亦得速成無上菩提。惡邪論法諸外道輩邪見、斷常顛倒計著，尚有遮法不聽食肉，況復如來世間救護正法成就而食肉耶？」

After Bodhisattva Mahāmati had asked in verse, he again addressed the Buddha, saying: "We only pray that the World-Honoured One will explain for us the merits and faults of eating and not eating meat. I and the bodhisattvas, in the present and the future, shall explain the Dharma with discrimination for various sentient beings who desire to eat meat, so as to cause those sentient beings to turn toward one another with minds of compassion. Having attained a mind of compassion, they will each be pure and clear in their stage of dwelling and swiftly attain ultimate unsurpassed bodhi. Even after śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas have ceased in their own stages, they too will quickly achieve unsurpassed bodhi. Even those tīrthikas of evil and false treatises, with their false views and inverted clingings to annihilation and permanence, still have prohibitive rules that forbid eating meat; how much less should the Tathāgata, who protects the world and has perfected the true Dharma, eat meat?"