四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 3.368

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The *Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa* says: Those who leave household life mostly cultivate wisdom, and wisdom is the cause and condition for liberation; laypeople mostly cultivate merit, and merit is the cause and condition for happiness (thus we know that acting for happiness is not the original intention of leaving household life). The Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya says: Making offerings to relics and building stupas and monasteries are not our concern; the kings and householders of that country, those who delight in merit, should themselves make offerings; the concern of bhikṣus is the compilation of the Tripiṭaka, so that the Buddha's Dharma will not quickly perish. Thus at the initial precept conferral, the injunction says: 'One should exhort and transform others to create merit, repair stupas, and make offerings to the saṃgha' (this is the share of merit); 'one should study, recite sūtras, and diligently seek the noble fruits' (this is the share of the Way). Cultivating both from beginning to end, the intentions of the two paths are distinct.