[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035) › 3.59 # 佛祖統紀 3.59 佛祖統紀 3.59 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3.59) 華嚴二味四機。述曰。自昔教初學者。為時味圖。上言高上下對乳味。未嘗有論之者。今案玄文。華嚴之時自有二味四機之別。一者純教法身。即是分證中道四十一位。此名醍醐。二者凡夫大根。入圓初住證一分中道以去。亦名醍醐。三者始入十信。雖但四住未破無明。但名為乳。四者小根聾瘂全生如乳。然則名醍醐者有二機。名為乳者亦有二機。玄云。於小如乳於大如醍醐。少分譬喻不可全求。如籤云。華嚴分喻初味。而未得於華嚴之頓及別圓兩教。但有五味次第之相（文）當知。謂華嚴為乳者。正約從頓開漸施設化事之意。 > The two flavors and four capacities of the Avataṃsaka. The commentary states: From the past, when teaching beginners, people made diagrams of periods and flavors; on top they placed 'high mountain,' and below they matched it with the 'flavor of milk,' yet none ever investigated it. Now, examining the text of the Miaoxuan, the period of the Avataṃsaka itself contains the distinction of two flavors and four capacities. The first is exclusively teaching the Dharma-body, namely the forty-one stages of partially realizing the middle way; this is called clarified butter. The second is ordinary beings of great capacity who enter the first abode of the round teaching and realize a portion of the middle way onward; this is also called clarified butter. The third is those newly entering the ten faiths; although they have severed only the four abodes of delusion and have not broken through ignorance, this is merely called milk. The fourth is those of small capacity who are deaf and mute, remaining completely raw like milk. Therefore, those named clarified butter comprise two capacities, and those named milk also comprise two capacities. The Miaoxuan states: 'To the small it is like milk, to the great it is like clarified butter; a partial metaphor cannot be pursued completely.' As the Qian states: 'The Avataṃsaka's partial metaphor is the first flavor, but it does not capture the suddenness of the Avataṃsaka and the two teachings of distinct and round; it merely possesses the characteristic of the sequence of the five flavors.' (Text) One should know that calling the Avataṃsaka milk precisely refers to the intention of establishing the conversion from the sudden to open the gradual. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3.58) - [Next: 3.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3.60) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.3.59) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3.59) · Pramāṇa