註華嚴法界觀門 1.18

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姓杜，名法順。唐初時行化，神異極多，傳中有證，驗知是文殊菩薩應現身也。是《華嚴》新舊二疎初之祖師，儼尊者為二祖，康藏國師為三祖。此是創製，理應云作；今云集者，以祖師約自智，見《華嚴》中一切諸佛、一切眾生，若身心、若國土，一一是此法界體用。如是義境無量無邊，遂於此無量境界，集其義類束為三重，直書於紙，生人觀智。不同製述文字，故但云集。此則集義，非集文也。

Surname Du, personal name Fashun. In the early Tang he travelled and transformed beings, with extremely numerous spiritual wonders; there is evidence in his biography that proves he was a manifested body of the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī. He is the first patriarch of both the old and new commentaries on the Avataṃsaka; the Venerable Yan is the second patriarch, and National Preceptor Kangzang is the third patriarch. Since this was an original work, in principle it should say "composed"; that it now says "compiled" is because the patriarch, based on his own wisdom, saw that all buddhas, all sentient beings, their bodies and minds, and their lands in the Avataṃsaka are each the substance and functioning of this dharmadhātu. Such realms of meaning being immeasurable and boundless, he thereupon gathered their categories of meaning from within these immeasurable realms, bundled them into three tiers, and wrote them directly on paper to generate people's contemplative wisdom. Because it is not like authoring and composing texts, it merely says "compiled". This is a compilation of meanings, not a compilation of texts.