大乘義章 12.49

12.49

次辨其相。如《地持》說「六十一種眾生，名眾生無量。」何者是其六十一種？文無定判。有人釋言：調伏界中就人不同有五十五，加以六道為六十一。或可如此，要略如是。若隨心別，形類不同、地處差異，難以限算。故《地持》言「隨意地身則有無量。」十方世界國土不同，有無量種，如娑婆等，名世界無量。無善惡無記三性之法，一一分別各有無邊，名法界無量。調伏界者，如《地持》說：從一至十，有五十五。廣亦無邊。調伏方便，如《地持論．成就品》說「二十七種方便，一一各有九品分別，為無量種（此二門竟）。」

Next, discerning their characteristics. As the Bodhisattvabhūmi states: 'Sixty-one kinds of sentient beings are called immeasurable sentient beings.' What are these sixty-one kinds? The text has no definitive judgment. Some explain: In the taming realm, differentiated by persons, there are fifty-five; adding the six destinies makes sixty-one. It may indeed be like this; this is the essential summary. If differentiated according to mind, different physical types, and disparities of regions and places, they are difficult to limit and calculate. Therefore the Bodhisattvabhūmi says: 'According to the physical bodies of the mental ground, there are indeed immeasurables.' The lands of the worlds in the ten directions differ and are of immeasurable kinds, such as the sahā [world] and so forth; this is called 'immeasurable worlds'. Among the dharmas of the three natures—wholesome, unwholesome, and indeterminate—when differentiated one by one, each is boundless; this is called 'immeasurable dharma realm'. As for the taming realm, as the Bodhisattvabhūmi states: from one to ten, there are fifty-five; in broad terms, they are also boundless. As for the skillful means of taming, as the 'Fulfillment Chapter' of the Bodhisattvabhūmi states: 'Twenty-seven kinds of skillful means, each having nine grades of distinctions, constitute immeasurable kinds' (this concludes the second gate).