大乘百法明門論解 1.7

1.7

Furthermore, explaining by applying the six compound analyses: "Mahāyāna" is the expressive teaching, which is inferior because it consists only of the four dharmas of sounds, names, sentences, and phonemes; the "hundred dharmas" are the signified matters, which are superior because they conceptually encompass all one hundred dharmas. Subordinating the superior to the inferior to reveal the superior by means of the inferior, saying "the hundred dharmas of the Mahāyāna," is a tatpuruṣa compound.