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MLP002 0004.A Brief Account of Previous Lives..g2.0f

Chinese

由于罗(ྲོ་)具有伟大的慈悲心,您才转世为毗卢遮那(བཻ་རོ་)。您也依止希日桑哈(ཤྲཱི་སིདྷ་ཡེ་ཤེས་མདོ)、莲师(པདྨ་)等作为顶上的上师,将诀窍的要点彻底掌握,从而证悟了法身的自性面容,不会再受业力牵引而转生。然而,凭借着善妙的发心和愿力,为了连接无边众生的福祉,您转世为旺秋巴(དབང་ཕྱུག་འབར་)、拉夏多杰林(རཀྴག་རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང)、昆炯林(ཀུན་སྐྱོང་གླིང)和多昂林巴(མདོ་སྔགས་གླིང་པ་)等,成为莲师甚深伏藏的持有者。此外,在各种大乘和小乘的法门中,您还示现了与之相应的奇妙转世。在经历了十三次转世之后,」他这样说道。因此,持明金刚法是秘密的主尊,即金刚手。据说,在楞伽国,导师向离车毗·无垢称(ལི་ཙ་བཱི་དྲི་མེད་གྲགས་པ་)等持明眷属宣说了众多续部,并将所有密咒的续部都交付给了金刚手,并命名为金刚法。从“秘密不可思议”等语句中可以看出,他是此贤劫一切佛陀教言的集结者。特别是,在毗卢遮那所著的《善逝总集史》中提到:“导师与普贤王如来无二无别,也被称为菩萨金刚法,也被称为金刚萨埵,也被称为金刚手,也被称为金刚猛厉力,也被称为人颅力。他与一同听法的其他持明眷属一起,以眷属的身份出现,自己则以导师的身份出现,显现在九聚坛城之中,并用自己的语言进行连接,首先将其收集成口头形式,然后写成书册和经卷,用黄金书板和以青金石汁书写,将共同和个别的续部汇集在各自的类别中,制作成经卷并向他人展示。”因此,他是与导师意旨无二的教言集结者。之后,当贤劫的第四尊佛释迦牟尼佛降世时,释迦族中成为闻法持戒第一的圣者阿难陀,在接近二十一年的时间里,担任了如来的侍者。

English

Due to Ro's (ྲོ་) great compassion, you took birth as Vairochana (བཻ་རོ་). You also relied on Shri Singha (ཤྲཱི་སིདྷ་ཡེ་ཤེས་མདོ), Padmasambhava (པདྨ་), etc., as your crown gurus, thoroughly grasped the key points of the instructions, and thereby realized the self-face of the Dharmakaya, so you will not be reborn due to karmic forces. However, through excellent aspiration and prayers, to connect the welfare of limitless beings, you were reborn as Wangchuk Bar (དབང་ཕྱུག་འབར་), Raksha Dorje Ling (རཀྴག་རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང), Kunchong Ling (ཀུན་སྐྱོང་གླིང), and Do Ngak Lingpa (མདོ་སྔགས་གླིང་པ་), etc., becoming the holder of Padmasambhava's profound treasures. Furthermore, in various Mahayana and Hinayana teachings, you manifested corresponding wondrous rebirths. After thirteen rebirths had passed," he said. Therefore, the Vidyadhara Vajra Dharma is the secret lord, namely Vajrapani. It is said that in the land of Lanka, the Teacher taught many tantras to the Vidyadhara retinue such as Licchavi Vimala Kirti (ལི་ཙ་བཱི་དྲི་མེད་གྲགས་པ་), and entrusted all the tantras of secret mantra to Vajrapani, naming him Vajra Dharma. From statements such as "secrets are inconceivable," it is said that he is the compiler of all the Buddha's teachings of this Fortunate Aeon. In particular, in the history of the Gathering of the Sugatas composed by Vairochana, it is mentioned: "The Teacher is non-dual with Samantabhadra, and is also called Bodhisattva Vajra Dharma, also called Vajrasattva, also called Vajrapani, also called Vajra Wrathful Force, and also called Human Skull Force. Together with the other Vidyadhara retinue who heard the teachings, he appeared as the retinue, and he himself appeared as the Teacher, manifesting within the mandala of the nine assemblies, and connecting them with his own words, first collecting them orally, then writing them into books and scriptures, writing on golden tablets with lapis lazuli ink, compiling the common and individual tantras into their respective categories, making them into scriptures and revealing them to others." Therefore, he is the compiler of the teachings who is non-dual with the Teacher's intention. Then, when the fourth Buddha of the Fortunate Aeon, Shakyamuni, appeared in the world, the noble Ananda, who became the foremost in hearing and upholding the teachings among the Shakya clan, served as the attendant of the Tathagata for nearly twenty-one years.

Chinese

由迦叶将经部的教法交付后,进入寂静的禅定中,现证了阿罗汉的果位,并结集了经部的法藏。在迦叶去世后,他护持教法,先后使金发童子和穿夏纳衣者等数万比丘安住于阿罗汉的果位。最终,他在恒河中央化现岛屿,在那里以神通仅用一个小时就使五百位次第排列的苦行者受具足戒,并安住于阿罗汉的果位,之后入灭。他的遗体分成两份,被水浪冲到南北两岸,被离车毗人和未生怨王取走,在各自的国土中建造了佛塔,广为人知。此外,金刚手就是阿难陀,在《密集金刚》的释论《灯明》中也有记载:“那么,为何尊者阿难陀等被称为结集者呢?”回答说:“阿难陀是菩萨摩诃萨普贤,也就是金刚手。伟大的金刚持也是他,不是别人。否则,如何能从如来那里听闻八万四千法蕴,并毫无遗漏地一次性记住呢?”这样说道。当时,他的第二个色身显现为:在西方邬金国,转世为名为因陀罗部底的国王。他是此地所有持明密咒的转轮王的开端。正如所说:“释迦牟尼的近侍阿难陀,转世为因陀罗部底国王。”这是大成就者莲花生大师的授记。之后,他转世为匝霍尔的国王匝,在印度东方极大地弘扬了外内瑜伽续部。正如所说:“我从这里隐没后,在二十八岁时,在被称为三界天的地方,会有一位具福缘的种姓之人,在赡部洲东方的边境,名为匝的国王,会以吉祥的征兆显现。”正如授记所说,世尊入灭后二十八年,匝国王的屋顶降下经书之雨,经过观察,显现了金刚萨埵的容颜。

English

After entrusting the teachings of the Sutra Pitaka to Kāśyapa, he entered into peaceful meditation, manifested the fruit of an Arhat, and compiled the Sutra Pitaka. After Kāśyapa passed away, he upheld the teachings and successively established tens of thousands of monks, including the golden-haired boy and the one wearing linen clothes, in the state of Arhat. Finally, in the middle of the Ganges River, he manifested an island, and there, through miraculous powers, he ordained five hundred ascetics in a single hour, placing them in the state of Arhat, and then passed into Parinirvana. His relics were divided into two parts, washed by the waves to the north and south banks, and taken by the Licchavis and King Ajatashatru, who built stupas in their respective countries, as is well known. Furthermore, Ānanda himself is Vajrapani, as also recorded in the commentary 'Lamp Illuminating' on the Guhyasamaja Tantra: 'Then, why are venerable Ānanda and others called compilers?' The answer is: 'Ānanda is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Samantabhadra, that is, Vajrapani. The great Vajradhara is also he, not another. Otherwise, how could he hear the eighty-four thousand collections of Dharma from the Tathagata and remember them all at once without any omission?' It is said. At that time, his second form manifestation was: in the land of Oddiyana in the west, he was reborn as a king named Indrabhuti. He was the first of all Chakravartins who held the knowledge of secret mantras in this field. As it is said: 'Shakyamuni's attendant Ānanda, reborn as King Indrabhuti.' This is a prophecy by the great master Padmasambhava. After that, he was reborn as King Jah of Zahor, and greatly propagated the outer and inner yoga tantras in eastern India. As it is said: 'After I disappear from here, at the age of twenty-eight, in the place known as the three realms of the gods, there will be a fortunate person of good lineage, in the eastern border of Jambudvipa, named King Jah, who will appear with auspicious signs.' As the prophecy said, twenty-eight years after the Buddha's Parinirvana, a rain of scriptures fell on the roof of King Jah's house, and upon examination, the face of Vajrasattva appeared.