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KMG127 0002.The Garland of Jewels A Biography of the Eight Great Close Sons of the Great Bodhisattva. Mipham..The Garland of Jewels A Biography of the Eight Great Close Sons of the Great Bodhisattva. Mipham..g2.0f

Chinese

当你们那样供养自己的时候,也就供养了如来。你们也值得供养。想要供养如来的舍利,就应当像如来供养自己那样去供养,并且以具足何种功德能使舍利也获得供养的那些功德,自己也应当去修习。那样,就等于供养了如来。不生起念想和相状,远离我执、分别、常断、来去等一切相状,不执著于相状,这就是供养如来。因为如来的身体是不生不灭、不显现、无二等等的体性,所以用生等方式不容易供养。 如此说法后,该眷属中四万二千菩萨获得了不生之法的忍耐。八万四千众生生起了智慧和见解,证得了离欲和不还果位。两万三千以前没有发心的众生发起了无上菩提心。那些比丘和天人从此以后,安住于为自己利益而精进和少事,不再精进于供养佛塔等事。为什么呢?因为他们已经真实地进入了甚深无上的佛法之中。 世尊说:“光护,对于像那样殊胜的人们的甚深忍耐和善巧方便,应当学习。” 《菩提心庄严十万颂陀罗尼》中说:妙吉祥童子手持一个钵盂,将世尊所说的所有法界都收集在其中,献给了世尊。世尊伸出金色的手,接过钵盂,扔向面前的虚空,那个钵盂就变成了充满虚空界限的如来身。充满了大千世界,然后他们供养了世尊释迦牟尼佛。

English

When you worship yourselves in that way, you also worship the Tathagata. You are also worthy of worship. If you wish to worship the relics of the Tathagata, you should worship as the Tathagata worshipped himself, and cultivate those qualities by possessing which the relics will also attain worship. In that way, you will be worshipping the Tathagata. Not generating thoughts and signs, being free from all signs such as self-grasping, discrimination, permanence, annihilation, coming, and going, not clinging to signs, this is worshipping the Tathagata. Because the body of the Tathagata is of the nature of non-birth, non-manifestation, non-duality, etc., it is not easy to worship by means of birth and so on. After teaching the Dharma in this way, forty-two thousand Bodhisattvas from that assembly attained forbearance of the Dharma of non-birth. Eighty-four thousand beings generated knowledge and vision, and attained the fruits of dispassion and non-return. Twenty-three thousand beings who had not previously generated the mind awakened the mind to unsurpassed Bodhi. From then on, those monks and gods, abiding in diligence and few activities for their own benefit, no longer diligently engaged in offering stupas and so on. Why? Because they had truly entered into the profound and unsurpassed Dharma. The Blessed One said, "Light Protector, one should learn from the profound forbearance and skillful means of such excellent individuals." The Dharani of the Ornament of the Essence of Bodhi, Hundred Thousand Verses, says: Manjushri, having become a youth, carrying a single alms bowl, collected all the realms of Dharma spoken by the Blessed One into it and offered it to the Blessed One. The Blessed One extended his golden-colored hand, took the bowl in his hand, and threw it into the sky in front of him. That alms bowl then transformed into the body of the Tathagata, filling the expanse of the sky. Having filled the great thousand world system, they then offered to the Blessed One Shakyamuni Buddha.

Chinese

释迦牟尼佛说:“善哉!善哉!”。所有这些每一位的面前都显现出世尊释迦牟尼佛与眷属的集会,以及释迦牟尼佛各自的面前,文殊菩萨正在供养钵盂的情景。之后,大菩萨金刚手对变成文殊童子的文殊菩萨说:“文殊,如此奇妙罕见的广大神变,所有如来聚集并显现种种化现,是为了谁的利益?此事的因缘是什么?为何示现这种放射光芒、种种变化的景象?”文殊菩萨说:“怎么,金刚手,你不知道光明的景象和神变的因缘吗?”金刚手说:“文殊,我不知道。如此所有如来聚集并显现种种化现的广大神变,我以前从未见过,也未曾听过,今天是我第一次见到。”之后,金刚手挥舞金刚杵,绕世尊三圈后,祈请世尊:“因为您将要宣说何种法,以至于今天出现了如此前所未见、前所未闻的奇妙罕见的神变?”世尊说:“金刚手,稍等片刻!顷刻之间就会显现。”刚说完,就出现了一座由七宝组成的佛塔,高七千由旬,宽五千由旬,装饰精美,从空中诸天众供养和顶礼。之后,世尊嘱咐金刚手打开那座佛塔的门,金刚手用右手打开佛塔的门,在佛塔内,在以阎浮河金制成的宝座上,宝座以七宝装饰,覆盖着天衣的坐垫上,显现出世尊如来、阿罗汉、正等觉佛,极其庄严的金色面容,极其威严的光芒,名为胜幢顶髻,正在入定。之后,那位如来对世尊释迦牟尼佛说:“你如此的神变真是稀有难得,如来。

English

Shakyamuni Buddha said, "Excellent! Excellent!". Before each of them, the Blessed One Shakyamuni Buddha appeared with his retinue, and before each Shakyamuni Buddha, Manjushri was offering alms bowls. Then, the great Bodhisattva Vajrapani said to Manjushri, who had become the youth Manjushri, "Manjushri, for whose benefit is this wondrous and marvelous great miracle, where all the Tathagatas gather and manifest various emanations? What is the cause and condition for this? Why is this display of radiating light and various transformations shown?" Manjushri said, "What, Vajrapani, do you not know the cause and condition of the light's appearance and the miracle?" Vajrapani said, "Manjushri, I do not know. Such a great miracle of all the Tathagatas gathering and manifesting various emanations, I have never seen or heard before, and today is the first time I have seen it." Then, Vajrapani brandished his vajra, circumambulated the Blessed One three times, and requested of the Blessed One, "Because you are about to teach what Dharma, such a wondrous and marvelous miracle, never seen or heard before, has appeared today?" The Blessed One said, "Vajrapani, wait a moment! In an instant, it will become manifest." As soon as he said this, a stupa made of seven precious jewels appeared, seven thousand yojanas high and five thousand yojanas wide, adorned with exquisite decorations, and from the sky, the assembly of gods made offerings and prostrations. Then, the Blessed One instructed Vajrapani to open the door of that stupa, and Vajrapani opened the door of the stupa with his right hand. Inside the stupa, on a throne made of Jambu River gold, adorned with seven precious jewels, on a seat covered with divine cloths, appeared the Blessed One, the Tathagata, the Arhat, the Perfectly Enlightened Buddha, with an extremely radiant golden face, an extremely majestic light, called the Victory Banner Crown, absorbed in meditative concentration. Then, that Tathagata said to the Blessed One Shakyamuni Buddha, "Your miracle is so rare and wonderful, Tathagata."

Chinese

聚集和开展所有地方,实际上,所有法都没有聚集和分离,虽然本来就没有,但在这个世界上,展示出如此奇妙的神变,即使是以前的佛陀们也没有过。现在您劝请世尊宣说觉悟庄严宝王经的陀罗尼,世尊就宣说了陀罗尼。之后,秘密主金刚手向世尊请问那个陀罗尼的利益,世尊说去问文殊,就像问的那样,文殊说了那个利益的词句,听到后,聚集在那里的所有眷属都成了不退转于无上菩提,有些人得到了无上菩提的授记。如是说。 ༈ 《圣大宝积经》云:舍利子说:我希望从文殊童子那里听法,但不希望被教导。那是什么原因呢?因为我看到文殊以前在许多佛陀面前说法,也让许多大声闻都沉默不语。在东方经过许多百千佛土后,在一个名为悦意世界的国土里,有一位如来名为光髻,现在仍然住世,他的大声闻名为智慧灯,被赞誉为大智慧之最。我和文殊一起去了那个佛土,许多百千菩萨和许多百千天子也跟随在文殊身后。之后,文殊童子坐在光明天子的行列中,当他清喉咙时,整个大千世界都听到了声音,并且从所有魔的住所发出了威猛的声音。听到那个声音后,那个大声闻无法忍受那个声音的力量,像被风吹散的鸟一样掉在地上,感到惊慌,感到惊奇,于是向如来光髻请问是谁发出了那个声音。如来说是文殊童子的威力。在那里,文殊向如来顶礼,说了法的话语,然后文殊向大声闻智慧灯说了法的谈话。

English

Gathering and expanding all places, in reality, all dharmas have no gathering and separation, although they originally do not exist, but in this world, demonstrating such wonderful miracles, even the previous Buddhas did not have. Now you urge the Blessed One to speak the dharani of the King of Reasoning, the Ornament of Enlightenment, the Blessed One then spoke the dharani. After that, the secret lord Vajrapani asked the Blessed One about the benefits of that dharani, the Blessed One said to ask Manjushri, just as asked, Manjushri spoke the words of that benefit, after hearing it, all the retinue gathered there became non-retrogressive to unsurpassed Bodhi, and some received the prediction of unsurpassed Bodhi. Thus it was said. ༈ From the Mahayana Sutra, the Noble Jewel Heap, it is said: Shariputra said: I wish to listen to the Dharma from Manjushri, who has become a youth, but I do not wish to be taught. What is the reason for that? Because I have seen Manjushri preach the Dharma before many Buddhas in the past, and also cause many great Shravakas to remain silent. After passing many hundreds of thousands of Buddha lands in the east, in a world called Delightful, there is a Tathagata named Light Crest, who is still living, and his great Shravaka is named Wisdom Lamp, who is praised as the best of great wisdom. When I and Manjushri went together to that Buddha land, many hundreds of thousands of Bodhisattvas and many hundreds of thousands of gods also followed behind Manjushri. Then, Manjushri, who had become a youth, sat in the row of radiant gods, and when he cleared his throat, the sound was heard throughout the entire great thousand worlds, and a mighty sound arose from all the abodes of the demons. After hearing that sound, that great Shravaka could not bear the power of that sound, and fell to the ground like a bird blown away by the wind, feeling panicked, and was amazed, and then asked the Tathagata Light Crest who made that sound. The Tathagata said it was the power of Manjushri, who had become a youth. There, Manjushri prostrated to the Tathagata, spoke words of Dharma, and then Manjushri spoke words of Dharma to the great Shravaka Wisdom Lamp.

Chinese

那时,聚集在那里的天子们用各种鲜花供养文殊,并说道:哪里显现文殊童子,就在那里能亲眼见到如来。文殊童子所居住的地方,也会变成佛塔。凡是知道或将要知道文殊所宣讲的佛法的众生,也都将完全获得一切功德。说完这些话后,文殊菩萨对大声闻舍利弗说:你被认为是智慧第一,那么,这个智慧是有为法还是无为法?这样问他,他却一言不发。然后,如来允许文殊在那集会上宣讲诸法皆空的法门,八百位菩萨因此获得了无生法忍。因此,无论是声闻还是缘觉,都无法阻止文殊的雄辩,像我这样的人,没有机会与文殊一起交谈。这时,具寿善现说道:舍利子,当文殊童子在佛土中修行时,你看到了怎样的神通变化?舍利子回答说:我和文殊一起去了佛土,那些燃烧的土地充满了莲花之水,火焰也像旃檀木髓和卡扎里迪的衣服一样,触感柔软。空虚的天空中充满了在梵天宫殿中禅定的菩萨。那些正在形成的(事物)看起来正在毁灭,那些充满恶趣的地方远离了恶趣,那些众生获得了由菩提分法所产生的慈爱。那是什么呢?就是当他入定时,为了消除众生因贪欲等烦恼而受到的折磨,而为他们宣讲佛法。那时,我心里想,文殊和我的神通是一样的。文殊知道这个想法后,在这个大千世界中燃起火焰,火焰停留在世界中间,(文殊问)舍利子或我的神通力能超越它吗?

English

Then, the sons of the gods gathered there scattered various flowers to Manjushri and said: Wherever Manjushri, the youth, appears, there one can directly see the Tathagata. The place where Manjushri, the youth, resides will also become a stupa. Those beings who know or will know the Dharma taught by Manjushri will also completely obtain all merits. After saying these words, Manjushri said to the great Shravaka Shariputra: You are considered the best in wisdom, so, is this wisdom conditioned or unconditioned? Asking him this, he remained silent. Then, as permitted by the Tathagata, Manjushri taught the Dharma of emptiness of all dharmas in that assembly, and eight hundred Bodhisattvas attained the patience of non-origination. Therefore, neither Shravakas nor Pratyekabuddhas can stop Manjushri's eloquence, and someone like me has no opportunity to speak with Manjushri. Then, the venerable Subhuti said: Shariputra, when Manjushri, the youth, practiced in the Buddha-field, what kind of miraculous transformations did you see? Shariputra replied: I went to the Buddha-field with Manjushri, and those burning lands were filled with lotus water, and the flames were as soft to the touch as sandalwood marrow and Kacalindi cloth. The empty skies were filled with Bodhisattvas meditating in the Brahma palaces. Those that were forming appeared to be decaying, and those filled with evil destinies were free from evil destinies, and those beings obtained the love generated by the aspects of enlightenment. What is that? It is that when he enters into samadhi, he teaches the Dharma in order to eliminate the torment that beings suffer from afflictions such as attachment. At that time, I thought in my heart that Manjushri and my miraculous powers were the same. Knowing this thought, Manjushri ignited a fire in this great thousand world system, and the fire remained in the middle of the world, (Manjushri asked) can Shariputra or the power of my miraculous powers surpass it?