大乘百法明門論疏 1.4

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第二釋題目，言《大乘百法明門論》本事分中略錄名數者，大是遮小得名，乘以運載為義。此言大乘，遮詮立號，非是直詮。言遮詮者，簡小乘故，名曰遮詮。十十名百，廣如後釋。持自性故，名之為法。明者是慧，與明為門，故曰明門。問答往還，稱之為論。言〈本事分〉中者，即《百法明門論．本事分》中也。〈本事分〉中文繁浩博，此論文略故言略錄，非義略也。目召諸法，稱之曰名，一十百千名之為數，故言《大乘百法明門論．本事分》中略錄名數。此即第二釋其題目。

Second, explaining the title: Regarding the phrase, "A brief record of nominal terms and categories from the Vastusaṃgrahaṇī of the Mahāyāna Treatise on the Gateway to Understanding the Hundred Dharmas": "Mahā" (great) gets its name by excluding the small; "yāna" (vehicle) takes conveying and carrying as its meaning. Calling it "Mahāyāna" here is establishing a title by negative exclusion, not by direct designation. As for "negative exclusion", because it excludes the Hīnayāna, it is called negative exclusion. Ten times ten is called a hundred, as extensively explained below. Because it maintains its own nature, it is called a "dharma". "Understanding" is prajñā; serving as a gateway to understanding, it is called the "gateway to understanding". The exchange of questions and answers is called a "treatise". Regarding "from the Vastusaṃgrahaṇī": that is to say, from the Vastusaṃgrahaṇī of the Mahāyāna Treatise on the Gateway to Understanding the Hundred Dharmas. The text in the Vastusaṃgrahaṇī is intricate, vast, and broad; because the text of this treatise is concise, it says "brief record", which does not mean the doctrine itself is abbreviated. What denotes various dharmas is called "nominal terms", and one, ten, a hundred, a thousand are called "categories". Therefore it says, "A brief record of nominal terms and categories from the Vastusaṃgrahaṇī of the Mahāyāna Treatise on the Gateway to Understanding the Hundred Dharmas". This is the second [section], explaining the title.