法華論疏 2.454

2.454

佛性法身更無差別者，亦名佛性亦名法身，佛性與法身更無差別。又三乘人同有佛性、同有法身，故言更無差別也。第一無上義中明佛得清淨即是無垢真如，今明同義即是有垢真如。《佛性論》以無垢真如為勝相，有垢真如為同相。以無垢勝於有垢，故名勝相。

"There is no distinction whatsoever between the Buddha-nature and the dharmakāya": it is named both "Buddha-nature" and "dharmakāya"; between the Buddha-nature and the dharmakāya there is no distinction whatsoever. Furthermore, persons of the three vehicles identically possess the Buddha-nature and identically possess the dharmakāya, and therefore it says "there is no distinction whatsoever." In the first, the meaning of unsurpassability, it was explained that the Buddha's attainment of purity is precisely immaculate thusness; here, explaining the meaning of identity, it is precisely maculate thusness. The *Treatise on Buddha-nature* takes immaculate thusness as the superior characteristic and maculate thusness as the identical characteristic. Because the immaculate surpasses the maculate, it is called the superior characteristic.