[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大乘起信論廣釋卷第三．四．五](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814) › 4.118 # 大乘起信論廣釋卷第三．四．五 4.118 大乘起信論廣釋卷第三．四．五 4.118 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4.118) 論。以不知至是如來性　釋曰。此正明執相也。有義。此說不了教意。即謂虛空是佛法體。即是以喻而為法也。不爾何故破虛空相體是妄故非法身耶。有義。此中但執法身是常遍有同於虛空。非執虛空即是法體。故新論云。執如來性同於虛空是常遍有下破虛空體是妄者明所喻法。非常遍有顯能喻法。亦非常有。不爾應言非是虛空相。如何論言非如虛空耶。 > \[Treatise:\] Because of not knowing \[... is the nature of the Tathāgata\]. > \[Commentary:\] This directly explains the characteristic of the attachment. One interpretation holds that this refers to not understanding the intent of the teaching, and thus taking empty space to be the substance of the Buddha's dharma; that is, taking the metaphor to be the dharma itself. Were it not so, why refute the mark of empty space, \[saying\] that its substance is false and therefore not the dharmakāya? Another interpretation holds that here one merely grasps that the dharmakāya is permanent and omnipresent like empty space, not that empty space itself is the substance of the dharma. Thus the new translation says: "Grasping that the nature of the Tathāgata, like empty space, is permanent and omnipresent." Below, refuting that the substance of empty space is false clarifies that the dharma being illustrated is not permanently and omnipresently existing, revealing that the illustrating metaphor is also not permanently existing. Were it not so, it should say 'is not the mark of empty space'; why would the treatise say 'is not like empty space'? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4.117) - [Next: 4.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4.119) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814~en-mt.4.118) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2814.4.118) · Pramāṇa