[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789) › 4.55 # 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 4.55 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 4.55 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4.55) 滅除彼生論者，謂破彼外道妄計之論。外道雖有不生不滅之言，乃妄想分別是生死因，故云「生論」。佛說不生不滅是中道實理，對彼有生，故云「不生義」也。一切法下，頌非有非無，如乾城、幻夢雖有而無因也。不生無自性等，是承上再徵，謂不生者是無自性，無性是空，云何為我說也。以離於和合下是釋，謂於根、塵離和合相，而覺知之性自然不現。不現是空，空則不生，是故佛說無自性也。謂一一下，重釋上義，如文可見。 > 'Extinguishing their doctrine of arising' means refuting the falsely conceptualized doctrines of those tīrthikas. Although the tīrthikas use words of non-arising and non-cessation, they are conceptual distinctions of vikalpa and the cause of saṃsāra; hence they are called the 'doctrine of arising.' The Buddha's teaching of non-arising and non-cessation is the true principle of the Middle Way, set in contrast to their arising; hence it is called the 'meaning of non-arising.' From 'All dharmas...' onward, he versifies neither existence nor nonexistence: just as a gandharvanagara, an illusion, and a dream, though they appear, lack a cause. 'Non-arising lacks svabhāva...' and so forth investigates this further from the above, meaning: non-arising is the lack of svabhāva, and the lack of svabhāva is emptiness; why then is it taught by me? From 'Because it is free from combination...' onward is the explanation, meaning: when free from the characteristics of combination in sense-faculties and sense-objects, the nature of awareness naturally does not appear. Non-appearance is emptiness, and emptiness is non-arising; therefore the Buddha teaches the lack of svabhāva. 'While each and every...' again explains the above meaning, as is evident from the text. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4.54) - [Next: 4.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4.56) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789~en-mt.4.55) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lankavatara*bo.6.17) — Classical Tibetan - [འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མདོ་ལས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་གསུང་གི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ལེའུ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lankavatara*bo-d108.7.13) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.4.55) · Pramāṇa