[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [起信論疏筆削記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848) › 20.48 # 起信論疏筆削記 20.48 起信論疏筆削記 20.48 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [20.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.20.48) 論　如法性者，法性遍滿，圓無際故，造論功德如性廣大，亦無有際。法性甚深，無窮盡故，造論功德如性甚深，亦無有盡。法性無漏，離諸染故，造論功德如性無漏，非垢非染。法性無為，離施作故，造論功德如性無作，非有為相，不可破壞，盡於未來。如是功德無量無盡、無漏無為，欲何所利？由是論云：普利一切眾生界。然利眾生不出二種：一、令離苦，謂離分段、變易二生死故；二、令得樂，謂得菩提、涅槃二無上樂。以眾生有三乘、五性、四生、九類差別不同，故云一切。今迴如性功德，普霑利之，令彼隨自根性咸得其益，終至究竟無上覺道耳。 > The treatise's "in accordance with the dharmatā": Because the dharmatā is all-pervading and perfectly without boundary, the merit of composing the treatise is, like the nature, vast and great, and likewise without boundary. Because the dharmatā is extremely profound and inexhaustible, the merit of composing the treatise is, like the nature, extremely profound, and likewise inexhaustible. Because the dharmatā is anāsrava and free from all defilement, the merit of composing the treatise is, like the nature, anāsrava, neither tainted nor defiled. Because the dharmatā is asaṃskṛta and free from artificial activity, the merit of composing the treatise is, like the nature, uncreated, not of saṃskṛta marks, indestructible, and endures to the end of the future. With such merit being immeasurable, inexhaustible, anāsrava, and asaṃskṛta, what does it intend to benefit? Hence the treatise states: "universally benefit the realm of all sentient beings." Now, benefiting sentient beings does not go beyond two kinds: first, causing them to leave suffering, meaning to leave the two deaths of samsaric death in portions and inconceivable transformation death; second, causing them to attain bliss, meaning to attain the two unsurpassed blisses of bodhi and nirvāṇa. Because sentient beings have differences of the three vehicles, five natures, four wombs of birth, and nine classes, it is said "all." Now, dedicating the merit that accords with the nature, it universally moistens and benefits them, causing each to receive benefit according to their own capacity, and ultimately to reach the supreme, unsurpassed path of enlightenment. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 20.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.20.47) - [Next: 20.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.20.49) - [Up: 20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.20) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848~en-mt.20.48) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.20.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.20.48) · Pramāṇa