瑜伽師地論略纂 11.44

11.44

Regarding the treatise's statement, "Furthermore, there currently exist in the ten directions immeasurable and innumerable great trichiliocosms of buddha-fields. There are no two bodhisattvas who simultaneously cultivate and amass the provisions for awakening, fulfill them at the same time, simultaneously appear in the world in a single buddha-field, and become Buddhas at one and the same time; how much less could there be immeasurable and innumerable bodhisattvas becoming Buddhas at one and the same time in a single world": the intention here is to clarify that there are numerous bodhisattvas who cultivate the provisions for awakening and fulfill them at the same time; if they do not become Buddhas at the same time in other worlds, yet multiple bodhisattvas were to become Buddhas at the same time in a single world, this cannot be, because it refutes the narrow adherence claiming that there are no Buddhas of the ten directions. The subsequent passage below says, "If they were to reside side by side in Tuṣita Heaven and attain buddhahood in succession," which is not correct. An objection is raised here: If they generate the vow at the same time and fulfill it at the same time, and sentient beings are together in a single world, and the faculties of the sentient beings of a single Buddha ripen at the same time, how is this resolved? The doctrinal explanation is: This never happens. If it were so, even the sentient beings of Maitreya and Śākyamuni have faculties ripening earlier and later rather than identically, how much less could sentient beings whose faculties ripen at the same time be together in a single realm.