[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) › 3.21 # 起信論疏筆削記 3.21 起信論疏筆削記 3.21 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.3.21) 或唯下，二、唯音聲。以聲是教主言，音謂佛唱詞。評論、語音、語路、語業、語表，故云音聲。離聲下，釋。以名句文三雖親能詮表義理，但是聲上屈曲之相，從假建立，無有自體。聲是色法，色法是實，名等是不相應行，非色非心，但約色心分位假立。由是實外無假，所以攝假從實，但取聲為教體，故云離聲無別名等。《婆沙論》云：佛教以語業為體。 > In "Or only..." below, the second is sound alone. Because sound is the speech of the master of teaching, "sound" means the enunciated words of the Buddha. Through review, speech sounds, pathways of speech, karma of speech, and manifestation through speech, it is therefore called "sound." In "Apart from sound..." below, it explains this. Although names, sentences, and phonemes can directly express meanings and principles, they are merely inflectional marks upon sound, established conventionally and lacking intrinsic substance. Sound is a material dharma, and material dharmas are substantial, whereas names and the rest are conditioning forces not associated \[with the mind\], neither material nor mental, established conventionally only in relation to the states of matter and mind. For this reason, outside the substantial there is no conventional, and therefore, subsuming the conventional to follow the substantial, one takes only sound as the substance of the teaching; hence it says that apart from sound there are no separate names and the like. The Vibhāṣā-śāstra states: "The Buddha's teaching takes speech karma as its substance." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.3.20) - [Next: 3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.3.22) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848~en-mt.3.21) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1848.3.21) · Pramāṇa