[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法華論疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1818) › 3.410 # 法華論疏 3.410 法華論疏 3.410 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.410](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1818.3.410) 問：此中利益有何次第？答：此中明三種利益。一者上品利益，謂初得無生乃至轉清淨法輪；二者中品利益，謂八生乃至一生得三菩提；三下品利益，謂八佛世界眾生發菩提心。吾初讀此論，執天親八生一生得三菩提言，初從得無生乃至八生一生竝是增數自淺之深，不知三品之益。講數百遍，始乃解之。問：八生一生云何是中品利益？答：初聞法華即得無生，乃至有能轉清淨法輪。今聞法華經八過受生方入初地，乃至經一過受生方入初地，故是中品利益。論主合此三益以之為二：初二益竝稱為證，以同得無生；後一始得發心，故稱為信也。問：說〈壽量〉一品，何故顯有多人得道？答：此敘釋迦從初發心至後際等，一切化主、教門、徒眾、處所、時節，其中若事若理、若權若實無不顯現，故得道者多也。 > Question: What is the sequence among these benefits? Answer: Here three kinds of benefit are clarified: first, the superior benefit, which refers to initially attaining non-arising down to turning the pure Dharma-wheel; second, the middling benefit, which refers to attaining saṃbodhi in eight rebirths down to a single rebirth; third, the inferior benefit, which refers to sentient beings of eight Buddha worlds generating the bodhi-mind. When I first read this treatise, I adhered to Tianqin's statement that in eight rebirths or a single rebirth they attain saṃbodhi; initially, from attaining non-arising down to eight rebirths and a single rebirth, these were all increasing numbers proceeding from shallow to deep, and I did not know of the three grades of benefit. Having lectured on it several hundred times, I finally understood it. Question: How are eight rebirths and a single rebirth a middling benefit? Answer: Initially upon hearing the \*Lotus\*, one immediately attains non-arising, and can even turn the pure Dharma-wheel. Here, upon hearing the \*Lotus\*, one enters the first bhūmi only after undergoing rebirth eight times, down to entering the first bhūmi after undergoing rebirth once; therefore it is a middling benefit. The author of the treatise combines these three benefits to make two: the first two benefits are both called realization, because they equally attain non-arising; the latter one only begins to attain the generation of the mind, and therefore is called faith. Question: When the single "Lifespan Chapter" was spoken, why was it shown that so many people attained the Way? Answer: This recounts Śākyamuni from his initial generation of the mind to the subsequent limit, and so forth—all the transforming masters, Dharma gates, assemblies of disciples, places, and times, wherein whether phenomena or principle, whether provisional or real, none was not manifested; therefore those who attained the Way were many. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.409](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1818.3.409) - [Next: 3.411](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1818.3.411) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1818.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1818~en-mt.3.410) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1818.3.410](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1818.3.410) · Pramāṇa