翻譯名義集 5.31

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5.31

This records the Dharma gate of the syllabary (akṣara-mukha). Broadly speaking, it is called a "gate" because its meaning is that of providing passage. The Miaoxuan explains four kinds of gates: First, letters as gates, such as the forty-two letters of the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā. Second, contemplative practice as gates, as the Commentary explains regarding the cultivation of the three samādhis and so forth. Third, wisdom as a gate, as the Lotus states: 'The gate of their wisdom.' Fourth, principle as a gate, as the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā states: 'The unproduced dharma neither comes nor goes.' Regarding the forty-two letters, the Supplementary Notes state in verse:

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翻譯名義集 — 法雲, Classical Chinese