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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

学习菩萨不可思议的解脱。犹如幻师所变的众多形象,幻术咒语的文字依于何处也无法确定。更何况进入和见到普贤菩萨的身语意秘密呢?普贤菩萨是深奥且不可思议的行者。是具有无量且超越限度的智慧金刚心者。是真实安住于无边无际的法界者。于一切世间界无所住而行,随顺一切众生的身形。具有无所取的法性。是无尽且无差别的神变和殊胜之力的圆满成就者。具有通达法界的能力。种姓之子,如是普贤菩萨是见而有义的。见者有义的。同样,听闻、受持、亲近、恭敬、思念、忆念、信仰、观察、寻觅,以及随之发愿,都是有意义的。之后,诸菩萨普眼和菩萨眷属都想见到普贤菩萨,合掌向世尊和普贤菩萨以身顶礼,口中也说顶礼之词。之后,世尊开示道:种姓之子们,向大菩萨普贤菩萨顶礼并祈请吧!在一切方显现,以普眼之业加持,并以缘念普贤菩萨,显现一切法界之心来加持。通达一切法离欲,与普贤菩萨的愿相同,安住于无二之中。加持在一切世间界从身显现,随顺无差别之根,以此普贤菩萨的愿行周遍一切,完全清净吧!将能见到菩萨普贤。

English

Having studied the inconceivable liberation of the Bodhisattva. Just as the many forms of illusion created by a magician, the letters of the magic mantra, where they reside, cannot be determined. What need is there to mention entering and seeing the secrets of body, speech, and mind of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra? The Bodhisattva Samantabhadra is a profound and inconceivable practitioner. He possesses the wisdom of the Vajra mind, which is immeasurable and beyond limits. He truly abides in the Dharma realm, which is without beginning or end. He acts without dwelling in all realms of the world, following the bodies and forms of all sentient beings. He possesses the nature of Dharma that is without grasping. He is the perfect achiever of inexhaustible and undifferentiated miraculous powers and supreme strength. He possesses the ability to comprehend the Dharma realm. Sons of the lineage, thus the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra is meaningful to behold. Seeing him is meaningful. Likewise, listening, hearing, attending, honoring, contemplating, recollecting, having faith, examining, seeking, and subsequently making aspirations are all meaningful. Then, the Bodhisattva Samantanetra and all the Bodhisattva retinue, desiring to see Samantabhadra, joined their palms and prostrated to the Bhagavan and Samantabhadra with their bodies, and also uttered words of prostration with their mouths. Then, the Bhagavan spoke: "Sons of the lineage, prostrate to and pray to the great Bodhisattva Samantabhadra! Manifest in all directions, bless with the activity of Samantanetra, and bless with the mind that manifests all the Dharma realm by focusing on Samantabhadra. Comprehend all dharmas as being free from desire, be equal to Samantabhadra's aspiration, and abide in non-duality. Bless that manifestation arises from the body in all realms of the world, and by following the undifferentiated senses, purify the all-pervading aspiration of Samantabhadra! You will be able to see the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra."

Chinese

呜呼!然后,普眼菩萨与那些菩萨眷属一起,以头顶礼,向普贤菩萨祈请。随即,所有那些菩萨都见到普贤如来安住于足下,坐在莲花座上。并且,也显现出那些眷属菩萨们从身体中出现,也显现出从无边无际的世间界中而来,并且如实地显示所有佛陀一代接一代的传承,并且盛赞所有佛陀的事业遍及所有世间界,并且详尽地显示所有菩萨的行持,并且照亮通往一切智智的道路,并且如实地显示所有菩萨的种种化现,并且如实地宣说所有菩萨殊胜之众的力量涌现,并且详尽地显示无量如来三世。普贤菩萨就显示了如此这般的种种化现。见到那些化现,所有眷属都欢喜踊跃,以所有目标敬礼之后,向普贤菩萨顶礼。当时,显现降下了种种花朵的云雨,同样地,也降下了种种花鬘的云等,成千上万的云雨。不可言说的世间界发生了六种震动。也出现了各种乐器的声音和诸天众多的歌声。大光明遍布,众生得到清净,恶趣断绝。不可言说又不可言说的菩萨们进入普贤行,成就,圆满了愿望,并且证得了无上菩提。然后,普眼向世尊祈请道:世尊,菩萨普贤是对于大自体而显现行持的,是无与伦比的,是完全不间断的,是不退转的,是随顺证悟平等的,是他人无法阻挡的,是诸法不相异的,是诸法不混杂的,以及众生

English

Alas! Then, the Bodhisattva Samantadrsti, together with those Bodhisattva retinues, bowed with their heads touching [the ground] and prayed to Samantabhadra. Immediately, all those Bodhisattvas saw that Samantabhadra Tathagata was abiding at his feet, sitting on a lotus seat. Moreover, it appeared that those retinue Bodhisattvas were also arising from their bodies, and it also appeared that they were coming from boundless world realms. Furthermore, [Samantabhadra] truly showed the entire lineage of Buddhas passing from one to another, and praised all the activities of the Buddhas throughout all the world realms, and elaborately showed all the practices of the Bodhisattvas, and illuminated the path to the wisdom of omniscience, and truly showed all the various manifestations of the Bodhisattvas, and truly proclaimed all the manifestations of the power of the supreme assembly of Bodhisattvas, and elaborately showed the immeasurable three times of the Tathagatas. Samantabhadra showed such various manifestations. Seeing those manifestations, all the retinues rejoiced and were delighted, and after bowing with all their aims, they prostrated to the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra. At that time, there manifestly fell showers of clouds of various flowers, and similarly, clouds of various garlands and so forth, tens of thousands of showers of clouds. Inexpressible world realms shook in six ways. Also, there arose the sounds of various musical instruments and many songs of the gods. Great light pervaded, sentient beings were purified, and the lower realms were cut off. Inexpressible and again inexpressible Bodhisattvas entered the practice of Samantabhadra, achieved [it], fulfilled their aspirations, and manifestly awakened to unsurpassed enlightenment. Then, Samantadrsti requested the Bhagavan: "Bhagavan, the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra is manifestly practicing towards the great self, is incomparable, is completely uninterrupted, is non-retrogressive, is following the realization of equality, is unopposable by others, is that all dharmas are non-different, is that all dharmas are unmixed, and sentient beings

Chinese

这是对所有众生的心加持的善巧方便。普贤菩萨是对一切法的自在、禅定和解脱的善巧方便。世尊开示说:正是这样,普贤菩萨以无数功德而完全清净,以无与伦比的功德而庄严,具有无量功德的珍宝,是不可思议功德的来源之海,是不可估量的功德的特征,是无边功德的云,以无间断的功德而赞叹和赞美,是取之不尽的法宝。普贤菩萨是诸佛所称扬赞叹功德无尽者。然后,世尊对普贤菩萨说:你为普眼等一切菩萨眷属,宣说具有普贤菩萨行愿圆满的十种禅定,以及具有无量功德赞叹,如果具有这些,即使是菩萨,也应被称为佛、如来和十力者。普贤菩萨依如来之教,为眷属们开示了那不可思议的伟大之法。犹如众生之心门无边无际,究竟而言无生,但仅在名言上生与将生无有穷尽、无有边际、不可衡量,菩萨普贤即已通达如是之多的法门。犹如龙族降下大雨,每一滴都如巴茹茹果实般连绵不断,却不会穷尽,先前降下的不会再降,但云的积聚不会穷尽一般。菩萨普贤的禅定、智慧、法门、见佛、化现之门等等,没有穷尽、没有界限、没有边际,没有退转、没有中断、没有耗尽。犹如火依仗木柴而熊熊燃烧一般,菩萨也同样,无论众生界和法界等有多少,他的进入都是无限的,并且自在游舞。

English

This is the skillful means of blessing the minds of all beings. Samantabhadra is the skillful means of the mastery, samadhi, and liberation of all dharmas. The Blessed One declared: It is indeed so, Samantabhadra is completely pure with countless merits, adorned with incomparable merits, possessing the jewel of immeasurable merits, the ocean of the source of inconceivable merits, the characteristic of immeasurable merits, the cloud of infinite merits, praised and extolled with uninterrupted merits, and is an inexhaustible treasure of Dharma. Samantabhadra is the one whose merits are inexhaustibly spoken and praised by all Buddhas. Then, the Blessed One said to Samantabhadra: For all the bodhisattva retinues such as Samantabhadra, teach the ten samadhis that possess the complete conduct and aspirations of the bodhisattva Samantabhadra, and the immeasurable praises of merits. If one possesses these, even if one is a bodhisattva, it is appropriate to be called Buddha, Tathagata, and the one with the ten powers. Samantabhadra, according to the teachings of the Tathagata, revealed that great and wonderful Dharma to the retinue. Just as the doors of sentient beings' minds are limitless, ultimately unborn, but only nominally born and will be born without end, without limit, immeasurable, the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra has comprehended so many Dharma doors. Just as the Nagas send down heavy rain, each drop as continuous as the fruit of a Varuru, yet it is not exhausted, and what has fallen before does not fall again, but the accumulation of clouds is inexhaustible, so too, the samadhi, wisdom, Dharma doors, seeing the Buddha, and the doors of manifestation of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, etc., have no end, no limit, no boundary, no turning back, no interruption, and no exhaustion. Just as fire blazes as long as there is wood, so too, the Bodhisattva, no matter how much the realm of sentient beings and the realm of Dharma, etc., there is, his entry is infinitely thorough and he freely frolics.

Chinese

以示现导师之方式,宣说了普贤行。之后,如来对菩萨心之国王说道:不可说之微尘全部执持,于劫中赞颂普贤,然普贤之赞颂亦无有穷尽。不可说之普贤们,于一一毛端皆可真实安住,如一毛端般,于一切境亦如是,法界无余,如其所是。如是宣说。之后,世尊之面门中,生出名为无畏之究竟的眷属之光芒,具有无数百千万俱胝之数。其光芒照亮一切无边世界,并于彼等世界右绕十匝,示现如来之神变,平息恶趣之苦,降伏魔众,以及庄严佛之眷属坛城等,以法界所遍满,直至虚空边际之无边一切世界,皆广大周遍,之后返回,右绕一切菩萨之眷属坛城,没入菩萨普贤之面门。光芒才一触及普贤,其身体之座,即狮子宝座,便胜过以往百千俱胝倍之美好与殊胜,除了如来之狮子座外,胜过其他一切。之后,菩萨由如来种姓所生之吉祥所询问,普贤宣说了名为“普贤宣说如来出生”之甚奇稀有之法类,于宣说诸佛之出生,身语意之所依,行境,现证菩提,转法轮,以及圆寂,见闻诸佛,以及与如来相伴而生善根之方式时,以佛之威力,十方世界之无数百千万俱胝不可说之微尘数之世界,发生六种震动。

English

He demonstrated the conduct of Samantabhadra by showing the way of the teacher. Then, the Tathagata spoke to the Bodhisattva, the King of Minds: "Holding all the inexpressible particles, even if Samantabhadra is praised for kalpas, the praise of Samantabhadra will not come to an end. The inexpressible Samantabhadras all truly dwell on each and every hair tip. Like a single hair tip, it is the same in all realms. The entire Dharmadhatu is as it is." Thus he spoke. Then, from the mouth of the Bhagavan, there arose the light of the retinue called "Fearless Ultimate," possessing countless hundreds of thousands of kotis. It illuminated all the boundless realms of the world, and circumambulated those worlds ten times to the right, displaying the miraculous manifestations of the Tathagata, pacifying the suffering of the lower realms, subduing the maras, and adorning the mandala of the Buddha's retinue, etc. The boundless realms of the world, pervaded by the Dharmadhatu and reaching the limits of space, were all greatly and completely pervaded. Then it returned, circumambulated all the mandalas of the Bodhisattva's retinue to the right, and dissolved into the mouth of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra. As soon as the light touched Samantabhadra, his body's seat, the lion throne, became a hundred thousand kotis times better and more excellent than before, surpassing all others except for the Tathagata's lion throne. Then, when the Bodhisattva, who was asked by the glory born of the Tathagata's lineage, Samantabhadra proclaimed the Dharma category called "Samantabhadra's Explanation of the Birth of the Tathagatas," which is extremely wonderful and rare. When explaining the birth of the Buddhas, the abodes of body, speech, and mind, the field of activity, the actualization of enlightenment, the turning of the wheel of Dharma, and passing into complete nirvana, seeing and hearing the Buddhas, and the ways of generating roots of virtue by associating with the Tathagatas, by the power of the Buddha, the worlds of the ten directions, the countless hundreds of thousands of kotis of inexpressible dust-like world realms, shook in six ways.