翻譯名義集 4.10

4.10

I observe that the principle transcends the four propositions, and the teaching encompasses all capacities; there are the differences of scattered flowers and strung flowers, the distinctions of responsive verses and standalone verses; some are unfolded upon request, while some are stated spontaneously without inquiry; there are past events and past lives, discourse on principle and discourse on parables. They capture delusive consciousness and unify with the true source; diseases have ten thousand varieties, and medicines have no single standard; therefore the categories of the teaching are divided into twelve divisions. The *Fazhen* states: "Prose, reiterative verses, and prophecies of attainment, / Standalone verses, and spontaneous discourses without inquiry, / Causes and conditions, parables, and past events, / Past lives, expansive discourses, marvels, / And analytical treatises together make the twelve names, / Expounded at length in the thirty-third [fascicle] of the *Mahāprajñāpāramitōpadeśa*."