佛祖統紀 29.27

29.27

The elder Li Tongxuan, in the seventh year of the Kaiyuan era of the Tang, used the newly translated Avataṃsaka Sūtra to compose forty scrolls of an expository treatise. In establishing his discourse, he extensively discussed the dharmadhātu in terms of ten places and ten assemblies, which differed from the commentary's tenets of Master [Fa]zang. Moreover, through ten differences, such as the master of the teaching and the requester, he set it as superior to the Lotus Sūtra, not knowing that the Lotus Sūtra is a discourse revealing the provisional to manifest the real, and not recognizing that the Avataṃsaka is a scripture that combines the distinct teaching while expounding the complete teaching. Therefore, he was widely refuted by our school (the elder's deeds are found in outline in scroll six of the Treatise on the Prosperity and Decline of the Dharma).