楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 4.62

4.62

These verses of question and answer examine the meaning of the doctrine of causelessness. The question has four points: how, due to what cause, for what reason, and in what place is this doctrine of causelessness propounded? The answer also has four: 'Observing conditioned dharmas' answers the place, conditioned dharmas being the arising and ceasing dharmas of the world; 'neither causeless nor caused' answers the 'how,' meaning the Buddha's Dharma is neither existent nor nonexistent; 'for those who assert arising and cessation' answers due to what cause, namely, caused by those tīrthikas' doctrines of arising and cessation; 'their views are destroyed thereby' answers for what reason, meaning the destruction of their wrong views.