[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) › [大乘起信論內義略探記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1849) › 1.74 # 大乘起信論內義略探記 1.74 大乘起信論內義略探記 1.74 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1849.1.74) 第八所化分齊者，若依小乘，唯此娑婆雜穢土是報佛土，於中此閻浮提報佛所依，餘百億等是化境分齊。若依始教，釋迦實報土在色究竟天，化身居百億世界；此恐小乘不信界外實土，故寄界內最勝處說。若約終教，釋迦土在三界外，故《涅槃》云「西方去此三十二恒河沙佛土，有世界名無勝，是釋迦實報土也。」為顯色頂之身不實故。或化境非俱百億，如《智度論》云「以大千界為一數，至恒沙為一世界性，又數之至恒沙為世界海，數之至無量恒沙為世界種，數之至十方無量恒沙為一佛所化分齊。」若依圓教，如《法華》云「我常在靈山」，彼論釋為報土。若依頓教，《涅槃》云「吾今此身即是法身」，故法性土無分齊。若依別教，此有二種：一國土海，當不可說，若寄言顯，如第二會初〈光明覺品〉說。二世界海，有三類：一蓮華藏世界海，具主伴、顯無盡，即十佛境。二三千界外有十重世界海：一世界性；二世界海；三世界輪；四世界圓滿；五世界分別；六世界旋；七世界轉；八世界蓮華；九世界須彌；十方世界相，是即萬子以上輪王境界也。三無量雜類世界皆遍法界，如一類須彌山世界數量邊畔，即盡虛空遍法界，又如一類樹形等世界，乃至一切眾形等，皆亦如是，悉遍法界，互不相礙。此上三位並是盧舍那十身攝化之處。又本末圓融、相收無礙，隨一世界即約麁有此三故，是故與三乘全異也。 > Eighth, regarding the extent of the realm transformed: According to the Hīnayāna, only this Sahā defiled world is the recompense buddha-land, within which this Jambudvīpa is the basis of the recompense buddha, while the other hundreds of millions \[of worlds\] and so forth are the extent of the nirmāṇa realm. According to the initial teaching, Śākyamuni's true recompense land is in the Akaniṣṭha Heaven, while his nirmāṇakāya resides in hundreds of millions of worlds; this is because, fearing that the Hīnayāna would not believe in a true land outside the three realms, it is explained by lodging it in the supreme place within the realms. According to the final teaching, Śākyamuni's land is outside the three realms; hence the Nirvāṇa\[-sūtra\] states: 'Thirty-two Gaṅgā-sands of buddha-lands to the west of here, there is a world named Invincible, which is Śākyamuni's true recompense land'—in order to show that the body at the summit of the form realm is not real. Or the nirmāṇa realm is not merely hundreds of millions \[of worlds\], as the Dazhidulun states: 'Taking a trichiliocosm as one unit, counting up to the sands of the Gaṅgā is one world-nature; counting further up to the sands of the Gaṅgā is a world-ocean; counting further up to immeasurable sands of the Gaṅgā is a world-species; counting further up to immeasurable sands of the Gaṅgā in the ten directions is the extent transformed by a single buddha.' According to the perfect teaching, as the Lotus \[Sūtra\] says, 'I am always at Vulture Peak,' which that treatise interprets as the recompense land. According to the sudden teaching, the Nirvāṇa states: 'This present body of mine is itself the dharmakāya,' hence the land of dharmatā has no boundary. According to the distinct teaching, there are two kinds: First, the ocean of lands, which must be deemed ineffable; if revealed by lodging it in words, it is as explained at the beginning of the second assembly in the 'Chapter on Awakening through Light'. Second, the ocean of worlds, which has three types: 1. The Lotus Treasury Ocean of Worlds, possessing host and retinue and revealing the inexhaustible, which is the realm of the ten buddhas. 2. Outside the trichiliocosm, there are ten tiers of world-oceans: 1. world-nature, 2. world-ocean, 3. world-wheel, 4. world-fulfillment, 5. world-discrimination, 6. world-revolution, 7. world-turning, 8. world-lotus, 9. world-Sumeru, 10. directional world-aspects—these are the realms of wheel-turning kings with ten thousand sons or more. 3. Immeasurable diverse types of worlds all pervade the dharmadhātu; just as the quantity and limits of one type of Mount Sumeru world exhausts empty space and pervades the dharmadhātu, so too are tree-shaped worlds and the like, up to all kinds of forms, all likewise pervading the dharmadhātu without obstructing one another. The above three levels are all the places gathered and transformed by Rocana's ten bodies. Furthermore, the fundamental and the derivative are perfectly interfused and mutually contain each other without obstruction; according to each single world, these three are roughly present; therefore, it is completely different from the three vehicles. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1849.1.73) - [Next: 1.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1849.1.75) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1849.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1849~en-mt.1.74) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [華嚴經探玄記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.3.53) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1849.1.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1849.1.74) · Pramāṇa