[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) › [華嚴五十要問答](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869) › 1.28 # 華嚴五十要問答 1.28 華嚴五十要問答 1.28 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1.28) 問：菩薩修道成佛不成佛差別云何？答：依小乘教，但修菩提分業，除有退者，皆悉成佛，無不成佛。依三乘教，實行修道皆悉成佛。若對異機現不成佛，若約正理無成不成。依一乘教，皆對前機，若須成佛則數數成、皆新斷結成佛，亦不住學地成佛。若對不成機，則常不成，由如大海於諸位中無有溢滿，即楞伽經菩薩一闡提是。若對異病機，則無成不成。若對普賢，則亦成亦不成也。 > Question: What is the distinction between a bodhisattva cultivating the path becoming a buddha and not becoming a buddha? Answer: According to the Hīnayāna teaching, they merely cultivate the karma of the factors of awakening, and except for those who regress, all become buddhas; there are none who do not become buddhas. According to the triyāna teaching, those who cultivate the path with real practice all become buddhas. If responding to faculties of a different sort, they manifest non-attainment of buddhahood; if viewed according to correct principle, there is neither becoming nor not becoming \[a buddha\]. According to the Ekayāna teaching, all are addressed to the aforementioned faculties: if it is necessary to become a buddha, they repeatedly become \[a buddha\], all becoming buddhas through newly severed fetters, and they also do not abide in the stage of learning to become buddhas. If addressed to faculties that do not become \[buddhas\], they perpetually do not become \[buddhas\]—just as the great ocean is never filled overflowing across all its places—which is precisely the bodhisattva-icchantika in the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra. If addressed to faculties with different afflictions, then there is neither becoming nor not becoming. If addressed to Samantabhadra, then it is both becoming and not becoming. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1.27) - [Next: 1.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1.29) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869~en-mt.1.28) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1.28) · Pramāṇa