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# 肇論疏 1.97

肇論疏 1.97

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [1.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.1.97)

第二、覆疏解釋也。有非真生者，假緣而生，故非真生。非真生故，不得言有也。事像既形者，萬事萬像皆已形現，皆已形現不得言無也。像形不即無、非真無非實有者，事像形現，不即是無；有非真生，非是定有也。然則不真空義顯於茲矣者，正以非真實有，故言不真。既非實有，所以言空。論之得名，從此義也。

> Second, reviewing and explaining. 'Existence is not truly produced': they are produced relying on conditions, and therefore are not truly produced. Because they are not truly produced, one cannot speak of existence. 'Phenomena and images having already taken shape': all phenomena and all images have already taken shape and manifested; having already taken shape and manifested, one cannot speak of non-existence. 'Taking shape, images are not immediately non-existent; not being real, non-existence is not real existence': phenomena and images taking shape and manifesting is not immediately non-existence; existence not being truly produced is not determinate existence. 'Thus, the meaning of "not real, therefore empty" is revealed herein': precisely because they are not genuinely real existence, it is said to be 'not real'. Since they are not real existence, they are therefore said to be 'empty'. The treatise derives its title from this meaning.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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