宗鏡錄 51.27

51.27

Answer: Positing the words 'universally established' eliminates two kinds of unestablished matter. Among the twenty Hīnayāna schools, excluding the four schools of the Ekavyāvahārika, Prajñaptivāda, Lokottaravāda, and Kaukkutika, the remaining sixteen schools all accept the defiled matter of a bodhisattva in their final existence, as well as the tainted matter of a Buddha. The Mahāyāna does not accept these; this is one kind of unestablished matter. The Mahāyāna speaks of the matter of Buddhas of other directions and the untainted matter of a Buddha; although the Sautrāntika accepts the matter of Buddhas of other directions, it does not accept that it is untainted; the remaining nineteen schools all reject its existence. Together with the former, these are matter not universally established between the two masters. If one did not say 'universally established' but merely said 'In ultimate truth, matter is the subject, and it is definitely not separate from visual consciousness is the thesis,' then when saying 'matter', whether accepted or unaccepted, all would be encompassed within the subject. As for what was previously accepted by the Hīnayāna but not accepted by the Mahāyāna, if one now posits it as consciousness-only, one would commit [the fallacy of] the partial non-establishment of one's own qualificand (aśrāyāsiddha / dharmi-asiddhi), and also commit the error of partial contradiction of one's own thesis. Furthermore, what is accepted by the Mahāyāna is not accepted by the Hīnayāna; if one now posits it as the subject, one commits [the fallacy of] the partial non-establishment of the other's qualificand. And when adducing the reason 'because it is subsumed under the first three and not subsumed under the eye,' one would commit the non-establishment of the substratum (āśrayāsiddha) for either one part of oneself or the other, because in the subject-phrase there would be no universally established matter to serve as the substratum. Now, in order to fully eliminate these four kinds of [fallacies], the words 'universally established' are posited.