注大乘入楞伽經 7.187

7.187

This sets forth the non-Buddhists' meaning of non-arising and non-cessation, the nine entities: first, time; second, direction; third, space; fourth, subtle atoms; fifth, the four great elements; sixth, Mahābrahmā; seventh, Parameṣṭhin; eighth, Maheśvara; ninth, Prajāpati, which is the puruṣa. That is to say, various non-Buddhists imagine that these nine entities are non-arising and non-ceasing and can serve as causes for the various phenomena of saṃsāra, being collectively named "creators." This is no different from the Buddha's Mahāyāna teaching that all phenomena are fundamentally neither arising nor ceasing, and that both existence and non-existence are completely unapprehendable.