淨名經集解關中疏 1.679

1.679

"In this way, all the bodhisattvas each spoke to the Buddha of their original causes, recounting what Vimalakīrti had said, and all said: 'We are not capable of going there to inquire after his illness.'" This is the second major section, generally explaining the bodhisattvas declining the order. Zhao says: The thirty-two thousand bodhisattvas all made statements of incapacity; the text simply does not record them all.