金剛般若論會釋 2.10

2.10

經文分二，初、問，後、答。論亦分二，初、標配經，後、問答釋。後文有二，初、解問文；經言已下，方解答文。此何所顯示問也？此中問意，初地菩薩所見報佛，坐百葉華，身稱華座，化身不定，此中說喻，何所顯示？此說報身，以破他疑，舉大身說，喻無所顯，且舉報身一小量喻，為成就欲界眾生故，且舉報身。「如彼羅睺阿脩羅王等」者，等取毘摩質多羅王等。《華嚴經》第五十卷偈中說，「如阿修羅化作身，金剛地上安其足，海水至深僅半身，其首廣大如須彌」，佛之報身為化欲界眾生，現如於彼須彌山量，由無分別，尚不應見其自體，何況其餘？為化十地而現大身，浪生分別，而見自體。今者論中釋云，佛經說指如須彌，為是誰也？而彼羅睺阿脩羅王化身，實如須彌山量，故佛指喻化身，化量雖能為大，所化人天居土小，不應見大，故身如須彌，但是報身，此中假說為化欲界人天所現報身耳。以此遠准阿彌陀佛身長六十萬億那由他由旬，非是地前凡夫所見化身佛也。

The sūtra text has two parts: first, a question; second, an answer. The treatise also has two parts: first, indicating and correlating with the sūtra; second, explaining by question and answer. The latter text has two parts: first, explaining the question text; from "the sūtra says" onward, it explains the answer text. "What does this show?" is the question. The meaning of the question here is: the saṃbhogakāya buddha seen by bodhisattvas on the first stage sits on a hundred-petaled flower, his body matching the flower seat, while the nirmāṇakāya is unfixed; what does the metaphor spoken of here show? This speaks of the saṃbhogakāya to refute others' doubts; speaking by raising a great body, the metaphor has nothing to show, but temporarily raises a metaphor of a small measure of the saṃbhogakāya: in order to bring to maturity sentient beings of the desire realm, it temporarily raises the saṃbhogakāya. "Like Rāhu the asura king and others" includes Vemacitrin and others. A verse in the fiftieth fascicle of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra says: / "As the asura manifests a transformed body, / Placing his feet upon the vajra ground, / The sea water, reaching its greatest depth, comes only to half his body, / And his head is vast like Mount Sumeru." / In order to transform sentient beings of the desire realm, the Buddha's saṃbhogakāya manifests in a measure like that of Mount Sumeru. Because of non-discrimination, one should not even see its own substance, let alone the rest. In order to transform the ten stages, he manifests a great body; giving rise to wild discrimination, they see his own substance. Now the treatise explains: when the Buddha's sūtra speaks pointing to [a body] like Sumeru, who is it? Indeed, the transformed body of Rāhu the asura king is truly of the measure of Mount Sumeru; therefore the Buddha pointed to the metaphor of a transformed body. Although the measure of a transformation can be great, the humans and devas to be transformed reside in a small realm and should not see a great one, so a body like Sumeru is merely a saṃbhogakāya; here it is provisionally spoken of as a saṃbhogakāya manifested to transform humans and devas of the desire realm. In this way, by far analogy, Amitābha Buddha's body is sixty trillion nayutas of yojanas in height, which is not a nirmāṇakāya buddha seen by ordinary beings prior to the stages.