Chinese
于是，（王子）向父王禀告说：“我想要进入大海，去取珍宝。”国王听了这话，就像吞不下又吐不出的东西一样，感到很不舒服，于是对王子说了这样的话：“这个国家也是你的国家，国库、财物和所有珍宝都由你支配，可以随心所欲地使用，何必亲自进入大海呢？你是国王的儿子，生于深宫之中，睡觉有帷幔环绕，食物应有尽有。如果现在启程去寻宝，谁知道你会不会遭受痛苦、饥渴、寒冷和炎热的折磨？更何况大海之中，障碍也不止一种，而是很多。比如，凶恶的饿鬼、恶毒的龙、旋转的漩涡、狂风的搅动和摇摆、水的颜色、山、鳄鱼、大鱼等等，障碍重重，即使去了一百一千人，能回来的也只有一两个，你为什么非要去大海呢？我是不会答应的。”然后，王子善事五体投地，四肢伸展，向父王和母后禀告说：“如果父王不答应我进入大海，我就在这里结束自己的生命，绝不起来。”当时，伟大的国王和王后看到他这样，目不转睛地看着，用各种方法劝慰王子说：“你起来吧，吃点东西，喝点水。”但是，王子善事不听劝告，禀告说：“如果父王不答应我进入大海，我永远不会吃喝任何东西。”国王和王后被不悦的悲伤所折磨，在他面前哭泣，发出哀叹，倒在地上。就这样，一天不吃不喝，两天、三天、六天不吃不喝，父母更加被悲伤所折磨，担心他活不下去，到了第七天，父母将他的手脚抱在怀里。
English
Then, (the prince) reported to the father king, "I want to enter the great ocean to fetch precious jewels." Upon hearing these words, the king felt uneasy, as if he had something he could neither swallow nor vomit. So he said to the prince, "This country is also your country. The treasury, wealth, and all the jewels are under your control, and you can use them as you wish. Why do you need to enter the ocean yourself? You are the son of a king, born in a deep palace, surrounded by curtains when you sleep, and with all the food you could desire. If you set out to seek treasure now, who knows if you will suffer from pain, hunger, thirst, cold, and heat? Moreover, in the ocean, there is more than one kind of obstacle, but many. For example, fierce hungry ghosts, malicious dragons, swirling whirlpools, the agitation and swaying of strong winds, the color of the water, mountains, crocodiles, large fish, and so on. There are many obstacles, and even if a hundred or a thousand people go, only one or two can return. Why do you insist on going to the great ocean? I will not agree." Then, Prince Good Deeds prostrated himself on the ground with his five limbs, stretched out his four limbs, and reported to his father king and mother queen, "If you do not allow me to enter the ocean, I will end my life right here and will not rise." At that time, the great king and queen, seeing him like this, watched without blinking, and comforted the prince in various ways, saying, "Get up, eat something, and drink something." However, Prince Good Deeds did not listen to the advice and reported, "If you do not allow me to enter the great ocean, I will never eat or drink anything." The king and queen were tormented by unpleasant sorrow, weeping before him, uttering lamentations, and falling to the ground. Thus, one day passed without eating or drinking, and then two days, three days, and six days without eating or drinking. The parents were even more tormented by sorrow, fearing that he would not survive. On the seventh day, the parents took his hands and feet into their arms.
Chinese
亲吻他的手脚，用甜美温柔的话语说：‘现在起来吃点东西，喝点饮料吧。’这个由食物组成的身体，是依靠食物而活着的。不吃不喝，你就活不下去。’虽然这样劝说，王子还是不听，说：‘如果父王和母后不让我去，我绝对不会起来的。’当时，王后对国王说：‘王子所想的心思很难改变，您能容忍王子一直这样下去吗？违背他的意愿是不合适的，请您慈悲地考虑，让他去大海吧。如果让他去，也许会在半路上回来。如果不让他去，肯定会绝食而死。’国王也于心不忍，就答应让他去了。这样答应后，王子德顿从床上起来，非常高兴，用头顶礼父王。国王的眷属、妃嫔、侍从和成百上千的人们互相议论说：‘王子德顿现在是死了还是活着？’有人说：‘王子德顿现在起来了，非常高兴，也在吃喝了。’ 然后，国王问王子：‘你这样一直要求去大海，有什么目的呢？’王子回答说：‘大王，我要取回如意宝珠，满足一切众生的需求。’然后，国王颁布命令：‘谁想去大海？如果能从大海回来，七代之内，食物、财富和珍宝都不会短缺地布施。去大海需要的一切用具也都布施和准备。’听说王子德顿要去大海取宝，大家都非常高兴地聚集起来。其中有五百人答应说：‘我们也请求作为王子的随从前往。’当时，在波罗奈斯国（古印度地名，今瓦拉纳西）有一个熟悉航海的人，多次往返。
English
Kissing his hands and feet, she said with sweet and gentle words, 'Now get up, eat something, and drink something. This body, composed of food, lives by relying on food. If you don't eat or drink, you won't live.' Although she tried to persuade him, the prince didn't listen, saying, 'If my father and mother don't allow me to go, I will definitely not get up.' At that time, the great queen said to the king, 'The prince's mind is very difficult to change, can you tolerate the prince spending his life like this? It is not appropriate to go against his wishes, please consider with compassion and allow him to go to the great ocean. If you let him go, he might return on the way. If you don't let him go, he will surely starve to death.' The king couldn't bear it either, so he agreed to let him go. After agreeing like that, Prince Deden got up from his bed, very happy, and bowed to his father the king with his head. The king's entourage, consorts, attendants, and hundreds and thousands of people discussed among themselves, 'Is Prince Deden dead or alive now?' Someone said, 'Prince Deden has now gotten up, is very happy, and is also eating and drinking.' Then, the king asked the prince, 'What is the purpose of you constantly asking to go to the ocean like this?' The prince replied, 'Great King, I want to retrieve the wish-fulfilling jewel and satisfy the needs of all sentient beings.' Then, the king issued a decree, 'Who wants to go to the ocean? If they can return from the ocean, for seven generations, food, wealth, and jewels will be given without shortage. All the equipment needed to enter the ocean will also be given and prepared.' Hearing that Prince Deden was going to the ocean to retrieve jewels, everyone gathered together very happily. Among them, five hundred people promised, 'We also request to go as the prince's attendants.' At that time, in the country of Varanasi (ancient Indian place name, now Varanasi), there was someone familiar with navigation who had traveled back and forth many times.
Tibetan
་དུ་མ་ཞིག་རྒྱ་མཚོར་ཕྱིན་ཏེ། ཐར་བ་དང་མི་ཐར་བའི་ལམ་རྒྱུས་ཤིན་ཏུ་མཁས་པ། ལོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་ལོན་པ། མིག་གཉིས་ཀྱང་མི་མཐོང་བ་ཞིག་ཡོད་དེ། དེའི་ཚེ་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་ཉིད་ལམ་མཁན་གྱི་དེར་གཤེགས་ནས་ལམ་མཁན་ལ་འདི་སྐད་ཅེས་བཀའ་སྩལ་ཏོ། །ང་ལ་བུ་གཅིག་ལས་མེད་པས་སྒོར་བྱུང་ཡང་མ་མྱོང་ན་རྒྱ་མཚོར་འགྲོ་བར་འདོད་དེ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱང་ཞབས་འབྲིང་དུ་འགྲོ་དགོས་སོ། །དེའི་ཚེ་ལམ་མཁན་དེས་རྒྱལ་པོའི་གསུང་ཐོས་ནས་སྐད་ཆེན་པོ་ཕྱུང་ནས་ངུས་ཏེ། རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོར་འཇུག་པ་ནི་བགེགས་དང་བར་ཆད་མང་སྟེ། ཉོན་མོངས་པར་འགྱུར་བ་ཡང་གཅིག་ཏུ་མ་ཟད་པས་བརྒྱ་སྟོང་གྲངས་མེད་པ་ཅིག་སོང་ཡང་སླར་འཁོར་བ་གཅིག་གཉིས་ཙམ་ལས་མེད་ན། རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་ཅིའི་སླད་དུ་རྒྱལ་བུ་འདི་ལྟ་བུའི་ལམ་རིང་པོ་ཡ་ང་བར་གཏོང་། རྒྱལ་པོས་སྨྲས་པ། རྒྱལ་བུ་ལ་བྱམས་ཤིང་བརྩེ་བས་ངོ་མ་ཟློགས་ཏེ་བཏང་བ་ཡིན་ནོ། །ལམ་མཁན་གྱིས་བདག་ཀྱང་འོ་ན་མཆིའོ་ཞེས་གསོལ་ཏོ། །དེ་ནས་རྒྱལ་བུ་དགེ་དོན་གྱིས་མི་ལྔ་བརྒྱའི་ལམ་རྒྱགས་དང་ཡོ་བྱད་སྦྱར་ཏེ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་ངོགས་ སུ་བསྐྱས་སོ། །དེའི་ཚེ་ནུ་བོ་ངན་དོན་འདི་སྙམ་དུ་རྒྱལ་བུ་དགེ་དོན་ལ་ཡང་ཡང་ཡབ་ཡུམ་ལྷག་པར་བྱམས་ཏེ། ད་རྒྱ་མཚོར་ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལེན་དུ་འགྲོ་བ་གལ་ཏེ་ཕྱིར་ཡང་འཁོར་ན་དགེ་དོན་ལ་ཇེ་བྱམས་ཇེ་བྱམས་ཤིང་བདག་ལ་ནི་ལྷག་པར་སྡང་ཞིང་བེན་པར་འགྱུར་རོ་སྙམ་བསམས་ནས་བདག་ཀྱང་རྒྱལ་བུ་དགེ་དོན་གྱི་ཕྱི་བཞིན་དུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལེན་དུ་འགྲོའོ་ཞེས་གསོལ་པ་དང་། ཡབ་ཡུམ་གྱིས་འགྲོ་བར་གནང་སྟེ། འདི་ཡང་སོང་ན་ལམ་ཡ་ང་བའམ། མི་བདེ་བ་དག་ཏུ་སྤུན་གཉིས་འགྲོགས་ན་གདོན་མི་ཟ་བར་གཅིག་ལ་གཅིག་ཕན་ནོ་ཞེས་གསུངས་ནས་རྒྱལ་བུ་ངན་དོན་ཡང་བཏང་ངོ་། །དེ་ནས་རྒྱལ་བུ་དགེ་དོན་གྲུའི་ནང་ན་ཞུགས་ནས་གྲུ་ལ་ལྕགས་ཀྱི་ཉག་ཐག་བདུན་བཏགས་ཏེ་ཞག་བདུན་གྱི་བར་དུ་བསྡད་དོ། །ཐོག་མར་གྲུར་ཞུགས་པའི་ནང་པར་ཉི་མ་ཤར་བ་ན་རྒྱལ་བུ་དགེ་དོན་གྱིས་རྔ་བརྡུངས་ཏེ་སྐད་ཆེན་པོས་འདི་སྐད་ཅེས་བོས་སོ། །ཁྱོད་ལ་སོགས་པ་སུ་རྒྱ་མཚོར་འགྲོ་འདོད་པ་ནི་ཅང་མ་སྨྲ་ཤིག །སུ་ཕ་མ་དང་། ཕུ་ནུ་དང་། བུ་སྨད་ལ་ཆགས་ཏེ་འཛམ་བུའི་གླིང་གི་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་དང་། བདེ་བ་ལ་དད་པ་རྣམས་ནི་འདི་ནས་ཕྱིར་དེང་ཤིག །བདག་གི་ཕྱིར་འགྱོད་པར་གྱུར་ཏ་རེ། དེ་ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་ཞེ་ན། རྒྱ་མཚོའི་ནང་ན་བགེགས་རབ་ཏུ་མང་བས་སོང་བ་གྲངས་མེད་ཀྱང་ཕྱིར་འཁོར་བ་གཅིག་ག
Chinese
许多人前往大海，其中有一位对解脱和不解脱的道路非常精通，年已八十，双目失明的老人。当时，伟大的国王亲自前往道路向导那里，对道路向导说了这样的话：我只有一个儿子，从未经历过任何苦难，现在他想去大海，你也必须作为侍从一同前往。当时，道路向导听到国王的话后，大声哭泣道：伟大的国王啊，进入大海有许多魔障和障碍，变成痛苦的也不止一个，即使去了成百上千无数的人，最终能返回来的也只有一两个而已。伟大的国王啊，为何要让如此珍贵的王子去如此漫长而可怕的道路呢？国王说：因为我疼爱和怜悯王子，所以无法阻止他，才让他去的。道路向导回答说：既然如此，我也一同前往吧。之后，王子德顿准备了五百人的路粮和用具，将他们送到了海边。当时，弟弟南顿心想：父母总是特别疼爱王子德顿，现在他要去大海取宝，如果他能平安归来，父母肯定会更加疼爱他，而我会更加被厌恶和轻视。于是他想，我也要像王子德顿一样去取宝。父母同意他去，说道：如果他也去，在艰难或不顺利的路上，两兄弟同行，肯定能互相帮助，不会有妖魔鬼怪作祟。于是也让王子南顿去了。之后，王子德顿进入船中，用七根铁索将船固定，待了七天。最初进入船中的那天，太阳升起时，王子德顿敲响了鼓，大声喊道：你们这些想去大海的人，都不要说话！那些对父母、兄弟姐妹、子女有眷恋，对人世间的享乐和安逸有贪恋的人，现在就从这里回去吧！不要为我后悔。为什么呢？因为大海里有无数的魔障，去的人数不胜数，但能回来的只有一两个。
English
Many people went to the sea, among them was an old man who was very skilled in the ways of liberation and non-liberation, was eighty years old, and was blind in both eyes. At that time, the great king himself went to the road guide and said to the road guide: I have only one son, who has never experienced any hardship, and now he wants to go to the sea, and you must also go as an attendant. At that time, the road guide heard the king's words and cried loudly, saying: Great king, entering the great sea has many obstacles and hindrances, and becoming afflicted is not just one, even if hundreds of thousands of countless people go, only one or two will return. Great king, why send such a precious prince to such a long and terrible road? The king said: Because I love and pity the prince, I cannot stop him, so I let him go. The road guide replied: If that is the case, then I will go with you. After that, Prince Deton prepared provisions and utensils for five hundred people and sent them to the seashore. At that time, the younger brother Nanton thought to himself: Parents always especially love Prince Deton, and now he is going to the sea to fetch treasures. If he can return safely, parents will definitely love him even more, and I will be even more hated and despised. So he thought, I will also go to fetch treasures like Prince Deton. The parents agreed to let him go, saying: If he also goes, on difficult or unfavorable roads, the two brothers traveling together will definitely be able to help each other, and there will be no demons or ghosts causing trouble. So they also let Prince Nanton go. After that, Prince Deton entered the boat, secured the boat with seven iron ropes, and stayed for seven days. On the day he first entered the boat, when the sun rose, Prince Deton beat the drum and shouted loudly: You who want to go to the sea, do not speak! Those who are attached to parents, siblings, children, and who are greedy for worldly pleasures and comforts, go back from here now! Don't regret it for me. Why? Because there are countless demons in the sea, and countless people go, but only one or two can return.