華嚴五十要問答 1.60

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Question: What are the differences among the factors of awakening across the various teachings? Answer: The names and numbers of the factors of awakening in the Hīnayāna briefly comprise thirty-seven kinds; the names and numbers of the factors of awakening in the triyāna are also identical, but their meanings differ, as extensively set forth in the sūtras and treatises. The factors of awakening of the Ekayāna are the two thousand phrases of meaning in the "Chapter on Detachment from the World" in the Avataṃsaka-sūtra, which are their names and their essential nature. It is asked again: Since the factors of awakening of the Ekayāna have distinct names, numbers, and essences, they must also have distinct causes; why are there meanings identical with the triyāna? Answer: In terms of the measure of their meanings, depth and shallowness, breadth and narrowness, they are completely different. Now, presenting distinctions in doctrinal approaches while having shared names is intended to induce the faith and aspiration of the triyāna. That the various teachings have additions or subtractions in common enumerations can also be known by analogy with this.