天台四教儀 1.53

1.53

次明圓教者，圓名圓妙、圓滿、圓足、圓頓，故名圓教也。所謂圓伏、圓信、圓斷、圓行、圓位、圓自在莊嚴、圓建立眾生，諸大乘經論說佛境界，不共三乘位次，總屬此教也。《法華》中開、示、悟、入四字，對圓教住、行、向、地。此四十位，《華嚴》云：「初發心時便成正覺，所有慧身不由他悟，清淨妙法身，湛然應一切。」此明圓四十二位。《維摩經》云：「薝蔔林中不嗅餘香，入此室者，唯聞諸佛功德之香。」又云：「入不二法門。」《般若》明最上乘。《涅槃》明一心五行。又經云：「有人入大海浴，已用一切諸河之水。」又「娑伽羅龍澍車軸雨，唯大海能受，餘地不堪。」又「擣萬種香為丸，若燒一塵，具足眾氣。」如是等類並屬圓教。

Next, the perfect teaching is explained. "Perfect" means perfect and wondrous, perfect and full, perfect and complete, perfect and sudden; hence it is named the "perfect teaching." That is to say, perfect subduing, perfect faith, perfect severing, perfect practice, perfect rank, perfect sovereign adornment, and perfect establishment of sentient beings; what the various Mahāyāna sūtras and treatises explain as the Buddha's realm, not shared by the ranks of the three vehicles, all belongs entirely to this teaching. The four words "opening, displaying, awakening, and entering" in the Lotus Sūtra correspond to the abodes, practices, dedications, and grounds of the perfect teaching. Regarding these forty ranks, the Avataṃsaka says: "At the moment of first generating the aspiration, one then accomplishes correct enlightenment; all bodies of wisdom do not depend on the awakening of others; the pure and wondrous Dharma body serenely responds to all." This explains the forty-two ranks of the perfect [teaching]. The Vimalakīrti Sūtra says: "In a campaka grove, one smells no other fragrance; those who enter this room smell only the fragrance of the merit of all Buddhas." It also says: "Entering the Dharma gate of non-duality." The Prajñā explains the supreme vehicle. The Nirvāṇa explains the five practices of the one mind. Again, a sūtra says: "If someone bathes in the great ocean, they have already used the water of all rivers." Again: "The dragon king Sāgara pours down torrential rain thick as axle-trees; only the great ocean can receive it, while other lands cannot endure it." Again: "If ten thousand kinds of incense are pounded into a ball, though one burns only a single speck of dust, it completely possesses all fragrances." Instances such as these all belong to the perfect teaching.