四明尊者教行錄 4.66

4.66

Twenty-fourth Question: In the first fascicle of the Sijiaoyi, explaining the differences of sudden, gradual, and other teachings, it says: 'How could the texts of the Deer Park and Crane Forest, and the teachings of the seven places and eight assemblies, be without the difference of sudden and gradual, or the distinction of indeterminate and esoteric?' A doubter says: 'Here it should say "How could there not be", why does it have the word "without"?'