[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) › [中觀論疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824) › 3.4 # 中觀論疏 3.4 中觀論疏 3.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.3.4) 「問曰諸法無量」者，第二偏釋後偈。所以知初問答釋後偈者，答曰略以八事破。以八不破不八戲論，故偈云「善滅諸戲論」。破即滅也。此釋定宜用之。就初，前問、後答。問從第二偈上半生。上云「能說是因緣善滅諸戲論」，問意云：戲論諸法無量，如外道九十六、內學五百論師，何故但說八事便能滅耶？此問凡有二意：一者將法以徵不。法既無量，不亦應然，如病多故藥亦應多。二者將不以徵法。若不唯有八，法亦應然。今何故法多不小耶？若法多不少，則破病不盡、申教未圓。又有此問來者，法門無量，云何止取汝所解八事欲釋一切大乘經耶？「答曰法雖無量」者，第二釋法多而不少意也。在法雖多，略說八事，則病無不破、教無不申也。「總破」之言，亦是偈云「善滅諸戲論」。諸，是不一之名故也。 > "Question: Dharmas are limitless..." is the second \[part\], which separately explains the subsequent verse. The reason we know the initial question and answer explain the subsequent verse is that the answer says: "Briefly, they are refuted by eight matters." Because the eight negations refute the non-eight prapañca, the verse says: "skilfully extinguishes all prapañca." Refuting is extinguishing. This explanation is definitely appropriate to use. Within this first part, the question comes first, followed by the answer. The question arises from the first half of the second verse. Above it says: "Able to expound this dependent origination / and skilfully extinguish all prapañca." The question means: The dharmas of prapañca are limitless, such as the ninety-six non-Buddhist schools and the five hundred treatise masters of the inner teaching; why is it that only expounding eight matters can extinguish them? This question has two meanings altogether: First, using the dharmas to challenge the negations: since dharmas are limitless, the negations should also be so, just as when diseases are numerous, medicines should also be numerous. Second, using the negations to challenge the dharmas: if the negations are only eight, dharmas should also be so. Now, why are dharmas numerous while the negations are few? If dharmas are numerous and the negations are few, then the refutation of errors is not exhaustive and the elucidation of the teaching is incomplete. Furthermore, this question arises because: the Dharma-gates are limitless; why do you take only the eight matters of your understanding to explain all the Mahāyāna sūtras? "Answer: Although dharmas are limitless..." is the second \[part\], which explains the meaning that dharmas are numerous while \[the negations\] are not few. Although dharmas are numerous, briefly speaking of eight matters leaves no error unrefuted and no teaching unelucidated. The words "comprehensively refutes" also correspond to the verse's "skilfully extinguishes all prapañca". "All" (sarva) is a name for not-one. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.3.3) - [Next: 3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.3.5) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824~en-mt.3.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.3.4) · Pramāṇa