[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) › 3.7 # 肇論疏 3.7 肇論疏 3.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.3.7) 第二、敘涅槃也。蓋是三乘之所歸，言三乘學人皆歸此道也。方等之淵府，諸大乘經皆名方等。十二部中有方廣部，方廣即方等也。以其方弘正等，故云方等。然方等所明言迹非一，莫不皆以涅槃為窮理盡性究竟無餘，故云淵府。淵者淵池，府者府庫。淵池水深，府庫財多。《毛詩》云：淵，深也。眇漭希夷絕視聽之域，眇然漭然、無聲無色，故云絕視聽也。幽致虛玄殆非群情所測，測，量也。言涅槃理致幽深，非諸人之所測量也。殆，幾也。幾，近也（其音讀）。近，非群情能測量也。 > Second, narrating nirvāṇa. 'It is that to which the three vehicles return': this means practitioners of the three vehicles all return to this Way. 'The abyssal treasury of the vaipulya': all Mahāyāna sūtras are called vaipulya. Among the twelve divisions there is the vaipulya division; vaipulya (fangguang) is just vaipulya (fangdeng). Because it is square and vast (fanghong) and correctly equal (zhengdeng), it is called vaipulya. Yet the words and traces explained in the vaipulya are not singular; all of them take nirvāṇa as the exhausting of principle, the full realization of nature, and ultimate without remainder; hence it is called an 'abyssal treasury'. 'Abyss' refers to an abyssal pool; 'treasury' refers to a storehouse. An abyssal pool has deep water; a storehouse has abundant wealth. The Mao Classic of Poetry says: 'Abyss means deep.' 'Vast, faint, and subtle, transcending the realm of seeing and hearing': vast and indistinct, without sound and without form; hence it says 'transcending seeing and hearing'. 'Its dark import is empty and profound, hardly to be measured by the ordinary sentiments of the multitude': to measure means to gauge. It means the purport and principle of nirvāṇa are dark and profound, not to be gauged by ordinary people. 'Hardly' (dai) means nearly. Nearly means closely (as pronounced). Closely, it is not something the sentiments of the multitude can gauge. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.3.6) - [Next: 3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.3.8) - [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.3.7) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1859.3.7) · Pramāṇa