四明尊者教行錄 4.20

4.20

Question 1: In the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra, predictions of becoming a buddha are bestowed across the three cycles [of preaching], and so on. Recent doubters say: Is this the buddha of the first abodal stage (prathamacittotpādika)? Or is it the buddha of wondrous awakening (samyaksaṃbodhi)? If it is wondrous awakening, the Great Master constantly said that it is the buddha of the eight aspects at the first abodal stage. If it is the first abodal stage, the perfect and sudden path is swift, so that [buddhahood] can even be consummated across one or two lifetimes; how much more so across countless kalpas?