法華論疏 2.454

2.454

"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.