大乘義章 16.38

16.38

次明大小得果不同。小乘所修，唯得聲聞辟支佛果；菩薩所行，能得佛果。又復小乘所修道品，得方便果，不得性淨；大乘所行，具得性淨方便之果。故《涅槃》云「三十七品能為煩惱作不生生因，亦為涅槃而作了因。方便菩提斷障離染，能令煩惱畢竟不生，是道能起，是故為彼而作生因。性淨涅槃道能顯之，是故為彼而作了因。」大小不同，辨之略爾。上來通解道品義竟。

Next, clarifying differences between the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna in obtaining fruits: what the Hīnayāna cultivates only attains the fruits of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas; what the bodhisattva practices can attain the fruit of buddhahood. Furthermore, the factors of the path cultivated by the Hīnayāna attain the fruit of expedients and do not attain the intrinsically pure [dharmakāya]; what is practiced in the Mahāyāna completely attains the fruits of both intrinsic purity and expedients. Therefore, the *Nirvāṇa-sūtra* states: "The thirty-seven factors can serve as the productive cause for the non-arising of afflictions, and also serve as the revealing cause for nirvāṇa. Expedient bodhi severs obstacles and departs from defilement, being able to make afflictions definitively not arise; this is something the path can bring forth, and therefore it serves as the productive cause for that. Intrinsically pure nirvāṇa can be revealed by the path, and therefore [the path] serves as the revealing cause for that." The differences between the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna have thus been briefly distinguished. The above concludes the general explanation of the meaning of the factors of the path.