金剛般若經旨贊 2.184

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2.184

Sūtra: "Truly there are no sentient beings saved by the Tathāgata." / Commentary: The explanation below has three parts: first, direct confirmation; next, converse demonstration; finally, distinction. This is the first. Within the true dharma-realm, not a single mark remains. If according to conventional truth, there are only the five aggregates, and precisely upon the substance of the aggregates 'sentient being' is conventionally designated; the name and the five aggregates are not separate from the dharma-realm. Therefore, within the dharma-realm there are no separate beings to be saved. Hence the treatise verse says:

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