法華論疏 2.135

2.135

Regarding "Next is to speak of the Tathāgata's merits as a Dharma master": secondly, it explains the merits of a Dharma master. There are two parts to the text: first, explaining in general the merits of a Dharma master; second, specifically explaining the merits of a Dharma master. Previously, in explaining the merits of the wondrous Dharma, it was also first general and then specific: the two kinds of profundity were general, and the profundity of the āgama was specific. Here too, it explains the general and the specific. Within the general there are two parts: first, the author of the Treatise generally indicates the merits of a Dharma master; second, citing the sūtra as proof.