成唯識論了義燈 1.47

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The early masters of the Mahāyānasaṃgraha had four gates: 1. Essence according to the distinction between names and referents; 2. Essence by subsuming the referent into the name; 3. Essence by subsuming dust-objects into consciousness; 4. Essence by subsuming phenomena into principle. The Yaoji has three: 1. The teaching apart from the expressive and the expressed. The second fascicle of the Ru lankajing says: "The Dharma-Buddha expounding the Dharma is apart from the essence associated with mind, because it is the realm of holy practice of internal realization"; the four-fascicle version is also identical, meaning that the Tathāgata's Dharmakāya, the principle of tathatā, generates the correct cognitive understanding, which is called expounding the Dharma. 2. Pertaining commonly to the expressive and expressed teaching. The eighty-first fascicle of the Yogācārabhūmi says: "The essence of a sūtra is, in brief, of two kinds: first, the phrasing; second, the meaning." 3. Restricted solely to the expressive teaching. The Daśabhūmika says: "The speaker and the listener accomplish the two matters to the ultimate degree." Relying on the Tripiṭaka Master's eight gates, four gradual abbreviations are made: 1. The gate of subsuming the false into the real; 2. The gate of the distinction between the real and the false. Within the gate of the distinction between the real and the false: 1. The gate of subsuming signs into consciousness; 2. The gate of the distinction between consciousness and signs. Regarding this distinction between consciousness and signs, within the teaching there are two explanations in the Buddhabhūmi—possessing a basis and lacking a basis; from this arise four propositions, as stated by a certain explanation.