[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) › [肇論疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859) › 3.35 # 肇論疏 3.35 肇論疏 3.35 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.3.35) 搜謂搜括，玄謂玄妙。搜括玄妙之所在，故云搜玄也。有名曰論云涅槃既不出有無下，牒前語也。不在有無則不可於有無而得之下，定宗也。求之無所使應都無然復不無其道，既無定求之處，則應都無涅槃，而復不得云無涅槃也。其道不無則幽途可尋，言幽玄途略可尋求耳。所以千聖同轍，千聖言多佛，多佛謂諸佛。諸佛皆同此轍。轍，車轍，喻正道也。諸佛皆遵此轍，無有虛返。虛返者，謂前無涅槃，然後却返也。其道既有下，既有涅槃之道，而復言其不出不在，必應有意，願欲聞也。 > "Searching" means seeking out and gathering; "profound" means the dark and marvelous. It means searching out the location of the dark and marvelous; hence it is called "Searching the Profound". > > \[The text states:\] "The Possessor of Names says: 'The treatise says that since nirvāṇa does not transcend existence and non-existence'" and so on: this recaps the previous words. > > "If it is not within existence and non-existence, it cannot be attained in existence and non-existence": this establishes the thesis. > > "If seeking it yields no location, it should imply that it is completely non-existent; yet its Way is not non-existent": since there is no definite place to seek it, it would follow that there is no nirvāṇa at all; yet one cannot say that there is no nirvāṇa. > > "Since its Way is not non-existent, the profound path may be sought": this means that the dark and profound path can roughly be sought. > > "This is why the thousand sages follow the same tracks": "thousand sages" refers to many Buddhas; "many Buddhas" means all Buddhas. All Buddhas follow this same track. "Track" (轍) means a wagon rut, a metaphor for the correct path. All Buddhas follow this track and none return in vain. "Returning in vain" means that there is no nirvāṇa ahead, and so they turn back. > > "Since its Way exists" and so on: since the Way of nirvāṇa exists, yet you also say that it neither transcends nor is present \[within them\], there must surely be a meaning to this; I wish to hear it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.3.34) - [Next: 3.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.3.36) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859~en-mt.3.35) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.3.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.3.35) · Pramāṇa