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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

发起菩提心后,请教了获得菩提心的方法。我从今天开始,直到证得菩提果,以十方诸佛为证,不起烦恼之心,断除一切不善之业,以具足清净梵行之戒律,学习佛陀之行。我不愿迅速成佛,为了一个众生,也要行持到未来际的尽头。我要清净无量不可思议的佛土,愿我的名字在十方传扬。说完之后,跟随国王的二十亿众生也发起了菩提心。如此,自从妙吉祥童子发起菩提心之后,已经过去了恒河沙数无量百千万七倍的劫数。获得无生法忍之后,也过去了六十四恒河沙数的劫数。从那时起,他圆满了如来的十力,圆满了菩萨的十地,圆满了佛陀的一切功德。他圆满了佛陀的一切功德,但从未生起过哪怕一个念头,想知道自己是否会证得圆满菩提。以前与国王虚空一同发起菩提心的二十亿众生,全部成佛,利益了无量众生,除了一个之外,全部都已入灭。妙吉祥童子将他们全部安置于六度之中,对他们全部进行了供养,并且守护了正法。除了那位如来,从这里向下,经过四万四千恒河沙数的佛土,有一个世界名为地音。在那里,有一位如来名为地神,与无量的菩萨僧众在一起,寿命无量,现在仍然住世。世尊如此宣说,菩萨狮子力以洪亮的声音宣说了妙吉祥...

English

Having generated the mind of enlightenment, he inquired about the methods for attaining it. 'From this day forth, until I reach enlightenment, I take the Buddhas of the ten directions as my witness. I will not generate afflicted thoughts, I will abandon all non-virtuous actions, and with pure moral conduct of celibacy, I will follow the Buddha's path. I do not wish to quickly attain Buddhahood; even for the sake of one sentient being, I will practice until the end of future time. I will purify immeasurable and inconceivable Buddha-fields, and may my name be heard and renowned in all ten directions.' Having said this, twenty billion beings who followed the king also generated the mind of enlightenment. Thus, since Mañjuśrīkumāra generated the mind of enlightenment, countless kalpas, seven hundred thousand myriads of times the number of grains of sand in the Ganges River, have passed. After obtaining tolerance of the unborn dharma, sixty-four times the number of grains of sand in the Ganges River have also passed. From then on, he fully perfected the ten powers of the Tathāgata, fully perfected all ten bhūmis of the Bodhisattva, and fully perfected the qualities of a Buddha. He fully perfected all the qualities of a Buddha, but never once generated the thought of whether or not he would attain perfect enlightenment. The twenty billion beings who had previously generated the mind of enlightenment together with King Namkha, all became Buddhas, benefited immeasurable sentient beings, and all but one had passed into complete nirvāṇa. Mañjuśrīkumāra placed them all in the six perfections, honored them all, and upheld the sacred Dharma. As for the one remaining Tathāgata, from here downwards, after passing forty-four thousand times the number of grains of sand in the Ganges River, there is a world called Earth Sound. There, a Tathāgata named Earth God, together with an immeasurable assembly of Bodhisattvas, with an immeasurable lifespan, is currently residing.' Thus spoke the Bhagavan, and the Bodhisattva Simhavikrīḍita proclaimed with a loud voice of Mañjuśrī...

Chinese

有人问帕拉,既然你已经圆满了菩萨的境界,获得了诸佛的一切功德,为什么不成佛呢?文殊菩萨回答说,虽然圆满了诸佛的功德,但没有再次成佛的必要,因为本来就已经获得了。因为自性的本体与一切法平等,对于无生灭的法,没有成佛的必要。然后,世尊也对文殊菩萨说,请你展示一下你的净土功德的愿力吧。文殊菩萨为了展示自己的愿力,右膝着地,合掌向世尊致敬,整个世界,如恒河沙数般,发生了六种震动。然后文殊菩萨禀告说:世尊,从无数亿劫以来,我发愿说:当我的佛眼无碍地照见十方无边无际的世界时,如果我没有将所有的佛陀都安置于菩提之中,没有将他们安置于菩提心和波罗蜜多之中,没有劝勉和教导他们,那么我就不成无上正等正觉。在十方之中,如果我没有见到任何一位没有被我安置于佛位的如来,那时我才证得无上正等正觉。当时,在场的菩萨们心想,文殊菩萨将会见到多少佛陀啊?世尊知晓了他们的想法,于是开示说:善男子,比如有人将三千大千世界的国土都粉碎成微尘,这些微尘的数量,即使是精于算术的人,用百、千、万等也无法计算或衡量,文殊童子以无碍的佛眼,在十方世界的每一方都能见到如此数量的佛陀。然后,世尊……

English

Someone asked Pala, "Since you have perfected the bodhisattva grounds and attained all the qualities of a Buddha, why do you not become a Buddha?" Manjushri replied, "Although I have perfected all the qualities of a Buddha, there is no need to become enlightened again, because I have already attained it from the beginning. Because the essence of suchness is equal to all dharmas, there is no need to become enlightened in that which is without birth or death." Then, the Blessed One also said to Manjushri, "Please show the aspiration of your field's qualities." Manjushri, intending to show his own aspiration, knelt on his right knee and, with palms joined, bowed to the Blessed One, and the world, as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, shook in six ways. Then Manjushri said, "Blessed One, from countless billions of kalpas ago, I have made the aspiration that: As long as I do not see that I have placed all the Buddhas, as many as are seen by my unobstructed Buddha-eye in the ten directions of the boundless and limitless world realms, into enlightenment, and placed them in the bodhicitta and paramitas, and encouraged and taught them, I will not attain unsurpassed, perfect enlightenment. In the ten directions, when I do not see any such Tathagata who has not been placed by me in the state of Buddhahood, then I will manifestly and perfectly awaken to unsurpassed, perfect enlightenment." Then, the bodhisattvas in that assembly thought, "How many Buddhas will this Manjushri see?" The Blessed One, knowing their thoughts, then declared, "Son of good family, for example, if someone were to break down this great thousandfold world system into tiny particles and turn it into dust, the number of those tiny particles, which even those skilled in calculation could not count or measure with hundreds, thousands, or millions, Manjushri, who has become a youth, with his unobstructed Buddha-eye, will see that number of Buddhas in each of the ten directions." Then, the Blessed One...

Chinese

那时,文殊菩萨禀告说:我的一个佛土,如恒河沙数佛土的边际一样宽广,用成百上千的珍宝装饰,达到了有顶的高度。在那里,十个大千世界的范围内的菩提树的光芒遍布整个佛土,我在那棵树下的时候,从成佛到涅槃之间,即使我不从那里起身,也会化现到十个方向的无数佛土中为众生说法。那个佛土中,连声闻和独觉的名字都没有,没有妇女和胎生,只有穿着袈裟,结跏趺坐,由化生而来的菩萨,没有嗔恨、嫉妒和隐瞒的过失,完全充满清净的梵行。那个佛土的食物,也不是像极乐世界那样令人喜悦的食物。在那个佛土中,当产生食物的想法时,他们的右手中会拿着装满具有成百上千种美味的食物的器皿,首先用具有五种神通的神通力,在瞬间供养十方诸佛和声闻,然后供养贫穷饥饿的众生,如转生为饿鬼等一切众生,使他们感到满足,并在为众生说法之后自己享用。同样,与僧人的行为相符的各种珍宝衣服也同样如此。同样,那些菩萨的所有享用和受用,无论有多少,也都会同样出现并这样做。那个佛土中,没有八无暇,没有不善,没有痛苦,没有过失,甚至连形象等不悦意的声音都没有。那个佛土中,充满了十方世界中前所未见、不可能存在的无数珍宝,仅仅是说出那些珍宝的名字,也要花费成百上千亿年的时间。那个佛土中出生的所有众生,都不会有冷热的刺痛,没有生病、衰老和死亡,甚至连名字都没有。任何想要成佛的菩萨,都不会去其他的佛土。

English

Then, Manjushri reported: 'My one Buddha-field is as vast as the boundaries of Buddha-fields as numerous as the sands of the Ganges River, adorned with hundreds of thousands of precious jewels, reaching the height of the peak of existence. There, the light of the Bodhi tree, encompassing the extent of ten great thousand world realms, pervades that entire Buddha-field. When I am sitting beneath that tree, from the time of enlightenment to nirvana, even if I do not rise from there, I will emanate to countless fields in each of the ten directions to teach the Dharma to sentient beings. In that field, there is not even the name of Shravakas or Pratyekabuddhas, no women or womb-born beings, only Bodhisattvas who wear monastic robes, sit in the lotus position, and arise through miraculous birth, without the faults of hatred, jealousy, or concealment, completely filled with pure brahmacharya. The food in that field is not like the delightful food in Sukhavati. In that field, when the thought of food arises, they hold in their right hands vessels filled with food possessing hundreds of thousands of flavors. First, with the power of the five superknowledges, they instantly offer it to the Buddhas and Shravakas of the ten directions, and then to all sentient beings who are poor and hungry, such as those born as pretas, satisfying them, and after teaching the Dharma to sentient beings, they enjoy it themselves. Similarly, various precious robes that are in accordance with the conduct of monks also appear in the same way. Likewise, all the enjoyments and possessions of those Bodhisattvas, however many there may be, will also arise in the same way and do the same. In that field, there are no eight unfavorable conditions, no non-virtue, no suffering, no faults, not even the sound of unpleasant things like forms. That field is filled with countless precious jewels that have never been seen or existed before in the ten directions of the world, and even to speak the names of those jewels would take hundreds of thousands of millions of years. All beings born in that field will not have the sting of heat or cold, no sickness, old age, or death, not even the name. Any Bodhisattva who wishes to attain Buddhahood will not go to other Buddha-fields.'

Chinese

从那里往生到兜率天,寿命终结后再次成佛,那个佛土有的菩萨想看到黄金形成的等等,就如各自所愿的那样显现,那个佛土除了菩萨和菩提树的光芒外,日月星辰闪电的光芒等都不显现,只有莲花开合来区分白天黑夜,没有白天黑夜的名称,那些光芒遍布无数亿的佛土,从上方的虚空中,发出无数亿美妙的音乐,恒常不断绝,那声音发出波罗蜜多和三宝以及菩萨藏的法音,以及菩萨各自所喜爱的法音,那个佛土中,无论谁想见到佛,如来就坐在菩提树下,立刻就能见到,所有怀疑犹豫都没有了,不用指示就能明白,像这样,十方世界无数亿不可思议的佛土中,所见到的佛土功德庄严和愿望以及特征等等,除了声闻乘的庄严和五浊恶世中成佛的那些以外,全部都聚集在那一个佛土中,包含在其中,即使在恒河沙数劫中,从那佛土的功德庄严开始,除了讲述之外没有其他事情,或者讲述更长的时间,也无法穷尽,因此祈请如来具有无碍智慧的力量,佛开示说:文殊,正是这样,如来已经领悟了。然后文殊菩萨说:也可以变幻出幻象,就像没有幻象一样,一切法显现生起和灭亡,却没有生起和灭亡,那就是平等性。等等。智慧上师等大威德的菩萨们各自展示自己的勇气,做了许多众生的利益。然后,世尊

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Having exhausted their lifespan in the abode of Tushita, they will be reborn and attain enlightenment again. Some Bodhisattvas in that realm wish to see it made of gold, and it appears to them as they wish. In that realm, other than the light of Bodhisattvas and Bodhi trees, the light of the sun, moon, stars, and lightning are not visible. Only the opening and closing of lotuses distinguish day and night, and there is no name for day and night. Those lights pervade billions of Buddha-fields. From the sky above, countless beautiful melodies, which are always continuous, arise. Those sounds emit the Dharma sounds of the Paramitas, the Three Jewels, and the Bodhisattva Pitaka, as well as the Dharma sounds that each Bodhisattva prefers. In that realm, whoever wishes to see the Buddha immediately sees the Tathagata sitting under the Bodhi tree, without any doubt or hesitation, and understands the meaning without needing to be shown. Like this, of all the qualities, adornments, aspirations, and characteristics of the Buddha-fields of the Buddhas residing in the countless, immeasurable billions of worlds in the ten directions, except for the adornments of the Shravakas and those who attain Buddhahood in the world of the five degenerations, all are gathered and contained in that one field. Even if one were to speak for as many kalpas as there are grains of sand in the Ganges River, beginning with the qualities and adornments of that Buddha-field, and doing nothing else but speaking, or even speaking for longer, one would not come to an end. Therefore, they requested the Tathagata, who possesses unobstructed wisdom and power. The Buddha replied: "Manjushri, it is just so. The Tathagata has understood it." Then Manjushri said: "Illusions can also be created, but just as there is no illusion, all phenomena appear to arise and cease, but there is no arising or ceasing; that is equality." And so on. Greatly glorious Bodhisattvas such as Yeshe Lama (Wisdom Guru) and others demonstrated their own courage and benefited many sentient beings. Then, the Bhagavan (Blessed One)