首楞嚴義疏注經 4.449

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The meaning of the three transformations has had many explanations past and present, each seeing its own text, which cannot be fully narrated. What is explained now does not add any other method to transform the count, but simply takes the advance and movement of calculating positions through past, present, and future in the present text, and it immediately forms one thousand two hundred virtues. For instance, in the first position, the three times and four directions revolve to make twelve, which immediately forms one layer; the calculating position is one horizontal and two verticals, already becoming the past. Second, one then transforms the single past era into the present, advancing the calculating position to one vertical and two horizontals, making one hundred twenty, which is the second layer. Third, one then again transforms the present era into the future, advancing the calculating position to one horizontal and two verticals, making one thousand two hundred, which is the third layer. Since the method capable of transforming is only the three times, the count transformed also stops at twelve hundred; hence there is neither increase nor decrease.