肇論疏 1.25

1.25

宗者宗祖，本名根本。肇法師以本無、實相等是諸經論之宗本。今明此義，故云宗本義也。亦可以此少文，為下四論之宗本，故云宗本義也。今依後釋。此文為二別：宗本一義，是謂標宗；〈不遷〉已下四論，是謂明教也。

"Doctrine" (zong) means ancestral source; "fundamental" (ben) names the root. Master Sengzhao takes original non-being, the dharmatā, and so on to be the fundamental doctrine of the various sūtras and treatises. Now, in clarifying this meaning, he therefore speaks of the "Meaning of the Fundamental Doctrine" (Zongben yi). Alternatively, one may take this brief text as the fundamental doctrine of the four treatises below; hence he says "Meaning of the Fundamental Doctrine". We now follow the latter explanation. This text has two divisions: the single text of the "Fundamental Doctrine" is termed the "setting forth of the doctrine"; the four treatises from "[Things Do] Not Shift" onward are termed the "clarification of the teaching".