Pramāṇa · Search · About · API

注大乘入楞伽經 4.257

注大乘入楞伽經 4.257

Language
Classical Chinese

4.257

外道以作者為生因義,謂從有無生一切法。有謂有種,即自在微塵等為能生因也。無謂無種,即虛空自然等生也,不說從自心妄想生。故我說一切法,不同外道無因邪因生,故名無生耳!

[The commentary says:] Non-Buddhists take an agent as the meaning of a cause of arising, asserting that all phenomena arise from existence or non-existence. 'Existence' refers to having a seed, namely taking Īśvara, atoms, and the like as the generative causes. 'Non-existence' refers to having no seed, namely arising spontaneously from space, nature, and the like; they do not say they arise from parikalpa of one's own mind. Therefore, I say all phenomena do not arise without causes or from erroneous causes like the non-Buddhists; hence it is merely named 'unborn'!

English (machine translation) (machine translation)

Translations (1)