請觀音經疏闡義鈔 3.60

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「授位」等者，《華嚴》云「轉輪聖王所生太子，母是正后，身相具足。王令太子坐白象寶妙金之座，張大網幔乃至奏諸音樂，取四大海水置金瓶內，王執此瓶灌太子頂，是時即名受王職位。」「十地云」者，即指《華嚴．十地品》明第十法雲地也。故經云「菩薩受職亦復如是，諸佛智水灌其頂故，名為受大智職菩薩。」此則唯法雲地得名灌頂菩薩也。「佛但法性」者，究竟顯理，故下地不能見也。「理極不能思度」者，解十人智有頂可見也。以齊己所解，不能思度究竟極理也。此則各以少分智慧為頂。「若得」下，稟教進行，猶被灌受職也。「能以」等者，即妙覺觀音用法性海水，普灌十種行人智慧之頂也。「此十地之頂也」者，明經云灌頂，正約十地。尚灌十地，下位可知。

"Conferring the rank and so forth": the Avataṃsaka says, "When a wheel-turning sage king begets a crown prince whose mother is the primary queen and whose physical marks are fully complete, the king has the prince sit upon a precious, wondrous gold throne on a white elephant, spreads out a great net and curtains, and even plays various kinds of music; he takes water from the oceans of the four directions, places it in a golden vase, and holding this vase, pours it over the prince's head. At that time, it is named receiving the royal rank." "The Ten Stages states" refers to the "Ten Stages Chapter" of the Avataṃsaka explaining the tenth stage, the Cloud of Dharma. Thus the sūtra states, "When a bodhisattva receives the rank, it is also like this: because the wisdom water of all Buddhas is poured over his head, he is called a bodhisattva who has received the rank of great wisdom." This means that only the Cloud of Dharma stage attains the name of a consecrated bodhisattva. "The Buddha is solely dharmatā": because he ultimately manifests principle, the lower stages cannot see him. "The extremity of principle cannot be conceived": this explains that the ten kinds of persons possess a summit of wisdom that can be seen. Because they are limited to what they themselves have understood, they cannot conceive the ultimate extremity of principle. This means each takes a partial wisdom as the summit. From "If one attains" onward: advancing in practice upon receiving the teaching is like receiving consecration and rank. "Able to... and so forth": this means that the wondrously enlightened Avalokiteśvara uses the ocean water of dharmatā to universally consecrate the summits of wisdom of the ten kinds of practitioners. "This is the summit of the ten stages": this clarifies that when the sūtra speaks of consecration, it directly concerns the ten stages. If it even consecrates the ten stages, the lower stages can be known.