四明尊者教行錄 4.26

4.26

Question 4: In the chapter 'The Appearance of the Jeweled Stūpa', according to Prabhūtaratna's original vow, the emanated bodies all gather. Doubters say: The Dazhidu lun, explaining Śākyamuni's emanated lands, says: In the silver world there are exclusively pratyekabuddhas; in the gold world there are exclusively arhats. Did all the buddhas of those lands come, or not? If they came, the emanated lands illuminated by the Buddha's light all have crystal for ground, and do not mention silver or gold. Furthermore, the emanated lands have bodhisattvas; when the emanated bodies came, each brought a great bodhisattva, yet those two worlds are not said to have bodhisattvas. If you say they did not come, this contradicts the vow that all return and gather in one place, and also contradicts the text saying that all have already gathered. Those who dispel this objection say: It says 'all gathered' and 'all came' with respect to the majority. Or they say that crystal was the ground and there were bodhisattvas, just as placing mung beans among a pile of black beans is named a pile of black beans by assimilating the few into the many. A further objection says: If it is with respect to the majority, this still invites a tremendous obstacle. The text stating that in the buddha-lands of the ten directions there is only the One Vehicle, and the words that both śrāvakas and bodhisattvas will all attain the Buddha-Path, should also follow the majority. If so, would this not be identical to the intention of the school of five natures?