四分律行事鈔資持記 1.30

1.30

In reconciling discrepancies: previously, the intention in citing texts was clarified; next, the structure of the compilation is displayed. As for the various schools cited, whether actions or legal procedures, if they are not from our own school, suspicions of confusion might arise; since they are also demonstrated alongside, it says "and also". The first four lines list the particulars; from "All of them..." onward, it clarifies the intention. First, regarding karmavācanā, as it is seldom used in ordinary worldly contexts, it is called "presently practiced". Saṃgha-wide procedures mostly rely on our own school, while individual procedures mostly derive from various other schools. The present text comprehensively incorporates both saṃgha-wide and individual procedures from other schools. (Among the saṃgha-wide procedures, the method of expulsion and establishing a communal pure ground comes from the Mahīśāsaka-vinaya; the novice's procedure for distributing robes comes from the Daśādhyāya-vinaya; individual procedures, such as maintaining robes and intensifying the blessing of medicines, come from the Daśādhyāya and Mahāsāṃghika.) The term "all matters" implies comprehensiveness, necessarily gathering the matters of other traditions cited across the chapters. The lower two lines point specifically to the various matters in the chapters on "Guiding Laypeople" and "Novices"; because these two chapters mostly collect from various traditions and rarely derive from our own school, they are reconciled separately. Following the text, this can be seen. Since other schools are gathered and brought home to our own school, it says "grasping them to form a single view", and so forth. "This school", if contrasted with other traditions, refers to the Four-Part Vinaya; if contrasted with other masters, it reverts to the ritual transactions of the single school of this Manual. Wasted effort is twofold: first, being ignorant of the teaching and practicing erroneously wastes the effort of practice; second, when the texts are scattered and hard to locate, it wastes the effort of study.