華嚴五十要問答 1.42

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Question: What is the distinction among the buddha's āśrayaparivṛtti across the teachings? Answer: According to the Hīnayāna teaching, there is transformation-cessation, transformation-accomplishment, transformation-stage, and transformation-manifestation. Present afflictions are extinguished, hence transformation-cessation; the virtue of practice is complete, hence transformation-accomplishment; transforming ordinary nature to obtain noble nature, hence transformation-stage; and the noble person's stream of dharmas is present in the current world, hence transformation-manifestation. According to the triyāna teaching, there is transformation-cessation, transformation-accomplishment, transformation-stage, and transformation-manifestation: obtaining the cessation of present dominant consciousness, of seeds, and of nature, hence transformation-cessation; the perfection of virtues and the perfection of nature, hence transformation-accomplishment; transforming the basis of an ordinary person to obtain the basis of a noble person, and not transforming and not obtaining, accomplishes transformation-stage; the dharmakāya's freedom from affliction and its lack of the mark of separation is named transformation-manifestation. According to the Ekayāna teaching, fundamental existence and fundamental existence arising through cultivation, arising through cultivation and arising through cultivation fundamentally existent—these four stages are ever so, as explained extensively in the commentary. Severing evil and not severing are ultimately ever so; therefore, the meaning of āśrayaparivṛtti pervades nine times and ten times, not like the one time and three times in the earlier Hīnayāna and triyāna teachings.