俱舍論疏 12.55

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12.55

On the Śāstra's text, "If through other expedients... cultivate many austerities for so long": This is a repeated question. If it is because the fruit of unexcelled great bodhi is extremely difficult to attain that one makes vows of long duration and cultivates many austerities, yet since there are expedients taking sixty kalpas or three lifetimes that also attain nirvāṇa and escape from suffering, why cultivate many austerities for so long for the sake of bodhi?

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