[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) › [大乘起信論裂網疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850) › 1.10 # 大乘起信論裂網疏 1.10 大乘起信論裂網疏 1.10 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.1.10) 三、釋論者，問辯徵析，剖斷開示，令得決定之謂。若藉語言文字顯示實義，對治邪執，分別修行正道之相，勸令修習，是教決定，能起聞思修等觀行相似之信。若觀察推求色等五蘊及一切法皆不成就，知妄動心即不生滅，是行決定，能起淨心地等分證之信。若得入於真如之門，永斷相應不相應染，以一念相應慧頓拔無明根，是理決定，能起一切種智究竟之信。故名「大乘起信論」也。此論是佛滅後六百年中，西天第十二祖馬鳴大師菩薩所造，乃性相之總持，言略義廣，誠了義大乘，佛祖心印也。若作五重玄義說者：法喻為名；一心真如為體；觀察一切妄念無相為宗；除疑去執，發起大乘淨信為用；大乘方等為教相也。初釋題竟。 > Third, to explain "treatise" (śāstra): It refers to questioning, debating, scrutinising, and analysing, resolving doubts and revealing meaning to enable one to achieve decisive certainty. If by relying on spoken words and written characters it reveals the real meaning, remedies heterodox attachments, distinguishes the marks of cultivating the correct path, and encourages one to practice it, this is "decisive certainty in teaching", which can give rise to the faith of contemplative practice and resemblance through hearing, thinking, and cultivating. If one contemplates and investigates the five skandhas such as form and all dharmas, finding them all to be unestablished, and knows that the deluded moving mind is itself unarisen and unceasing, this is "decisive certainty in practice", which can give rise to the faith of partial realisation from the stage of the pure mind upward. If one attains entry into the aspect of tathatā, forever severing associated and non-associated defilements, and with wisdom corresponding to a single moment of thought suddenly uproots the root of ignorance, this is "decisive certainty in principle", which can give rise to the ultimate faith of the knowledge of all aspects (sarvākārajñatā). Therefore it is called the "Treatise on Awakening Faith in the Mahāyāna" (Mahāyānaśraddhotpādaśāstra). This treatise was composed within six hundred years after the Buddha's parinirvāṇa by the twelfth Western patriarch, the Great Master Bodhisattva Aśvaghoṣa. It is the comprehensive summary of nature and characteristics (dharmatā and dharmalakṣaṇa); its words are concise and its meaning extensive, truly a definitive Mahāyāna, the mind-seal of the buddhas and patriarchs. If explained according to the fivefold profound meaning: phenomenon and metaphor are its name; the one mind tathatā is its essence; contemplating all deluded thoughts as markless is its central principle; removing doubts, dispelling attachments, and bringing forth pure faith in the Mahāyāna is its function; and the Mahāyāna vaipulya is its doctrinal classification. The first part, explaining the title, is finished. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.1.9) - [Next: 1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.1.11) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850~en-mt.1.10) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1850.1.10) · Pramāṇa