大乘百法明門論解 1.13

1.13

Furthermore, the Mahāyāna encompasses teaching, principle, practice, and fruit, and is superior because it is the signified content; the treatise is the expressive capacity, which is inferior because it is only the teaching. Subordinating the inferior to the superior to reveal the inferior by means of the superior, saying "the treatise of the Mahāyāna," is a tatpuruṣa compound.