起信論疏筆削記 2.2

2.2

將解下，別釋義門，二：初、開章。懸敘中六者，蓋於綸緒。何者？夫聖人所作必不徒然，茲論發興，有何所以？故受之以教起因緣也。名教既興，已知由漸，釋氏之學三藏統收，約法約人，如何攝屬？故受之以明藏所攝也。論藏通乎大小，菩薩有其權實，不以義求，罔知旨趣。此論詮法，分齊至何？故受之以顯教義分齊也。教所詮義，以知至極，未委何等機宜於此悟入？故受之以教所被機也。所詮所被既已昭然，未審能詮以何為體？故受之以能詮教體也。教體既明，教下所詮宗於何事？宗之畢竟趣向於何？故受之以所詮宗趣也。凡是教興悉須具此，故今懸敘止斯六門，謂論所因故、論所攝故、論所詮故、論所被故、論所依故、論宗歸故。然本疏開章具例十門，前六同此，但於此後更列四門，謂釋論題目、造論時代、翻譯年月、隨文解釋，如次至十也。今疏不依彼列者，以是懸敘義門，不欲雜於別解文義，故將後四合在隨文注解之中，由是懸敘但有六段。

"Intending to explain..." and so forth is the second [main division]: the separate explication of the doctrinal headings. It has two [parts]. First is opening the chapters. The six in the preliminary overview cover the underlying thread. How so? The actions of sages are certainly never in vain; what was the cause for the rising forth of this treatise? Therefore, it is succeeded by "the causes and conditions for the teaching's arising." Once the nominal teaching has arisen and its origin is known, the teachings of Śākya are collectively embraced by the three piṭakas; in terms of dharma and person, how is it categorized? Therefore, it is succeeded by "clarifying which piṭaka it is subsumed under." The Abhidharma Piṭaka pertains to both the Great and Small [Vehicles], and bodhisattvas have both the provisional and the real; if one does not seek by way of the meaning, one will not know the essential purport. To what extent does this treatise express the Dharma? Therefore, it is succeeded by "manifesting the limits of the teaching and its meaning." Having understood the utmost extent of the meaning expressed by the teaching, it is not yet known what kind of capacities awaken and enter through this. Therefore, it is succeeded by "the capacities accommodated by the teaching." The expressed and the accommodated having become manifest, it is not yet investigated what constitutes the essence of the expressing teaching. Therefore, it is succeeded by "the essence of the expressing teaching." Once the essence of the teaching is clarified, what is the principal theme expressed beneath the teaching? To what does the principal theme ultimately tend? Therefore, it is succeeded by "the theme and destination of what is expressed." Whenever a teaching arises, it must possess all of these. Thus the preliminary overview here is restricted to these six headings: namely, what the treatise is based on, what subsumes the treatise, what the treatise expresses, whom the treatise accommodates, what the treatise relies upon, and the theme and destination of the treatise. However, the original commentary opens its chapters by listing ten headings altogether: the first six are identical to these, but after them four more headings are listed, namely, explaining the treatise's title, the era of the treatise's composition, the date of translation, and following the text to explain it, reaching ten in this order. That the present commentary does not follow that listing is because these are doctrinal headings of a preliminary overview, and it does not wish to mix them with the separate explications of the text's meaning; therefore, the latter four are combined into the textual commentary, and on this account the preliminary overview has only six sections.