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English version Manjushri Bodhisattva, having bid farewell to Ghoshasri Tathagata (A Tathagata with an auspicious voice), and along with eighty thousand Bodhisattvas, vanished from sight, and then returned to the Sahā world, back to his own dwelling place. At that time, Manjushri Bodhisattva, having sat down with the other Bodhisattvas, then told them: 'I have a Dharma gate called the Great Dharani (Mahādhāraṇī). Now, I will explain it to you great beings. What is called the Dharani Dharma gate? It means: those who desire to attain the Dharani Dharma gate should abide in right mindfulness, with their minds not scattered, away from all ignorance and anger, and with wisdom penetrating all Dharmas. Practicing the path of the Tathagata, obtaining the gate of eloquence, abiding in non-form, entering the gate of Dharani wisdom of all Dharmas, continuing the holy path and being able to uphold the Three Jewels (Triratna). Their speech is without hindrance, they are skilled in understanding the languages of all beings, and if there are debates, they can explain them, and in the midst of the assembly, they have no fear. All the Devas (Gods), Nāgas (Dragons), Yakṣas (Demons), Gandharvas (Celestial Musicians), Asuras (Titans), Garudas (Eagles), Kinnaras (Celestial Musicians), Mahoragas (Serpents), humans and non-humans, even Indra (The King of Gods), Brahma (The Creator God), down to the animals and different kinds of beings, with their various languages and sounds, they can follow their various languages and sounds to teach them the Dharma. They are skilled in knowing whether beings' roots are sharp or dull, and according to their roots, they can help them understand. Their senses are pure, they are away from all wrong views, and they abide equally in the Dharani Dharma gate. They are not attached to the eight worldly Dharmas of agreement and disagreement, and they perfect all supramundane good Dharmas. They explain to beings the causes, conditions, and consequences of their actions, so that they can obtain great peace and happiness. In all places, they can penetrate with wisdom, and they can remove the heavy burdens of beings. Their minds are without worry or distress, and they know the self-nature of Dharmas. According to the roots of beings, they explain the appropriate Dharma, so that they can arouse diligence and obtain all good benefits. 'The Bodhisattva's mind generates joy, without expecting rewards, and all good roots are only for the sake of dedicating them to Sarvajñā (All-knowing wisdom). Seeking Sarvajñā, universally for the benefit and happiness of all beings. They can perfectly accomplish the practice of the Six Pāramitās (Six Perfections) – Dāna (Generosity) is perfected, dedicated to Sarvajñā; Śīla (Morality) is perfected, dedicated to beings, so that they can be happy; Kṣānti (Patience) is perfected, obtaining the marks and characteristics of the Buddha, with complete adornments; Vīrya (Diligence) is perfected, maturing all good roots; Dhyāna (Meditation) is perfected --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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满，得相应法，自在无碍；智慧圆满，通达一切法——于自在，离诸过失。 “诸善男子！如是总持法门——得此法门已，无所忘失，总能任持一切智故。 “复次，善男子！总持法门复能受持一切法，所谓：了一切法空、无相、无愿，无动、无作，离其分别，不生、不灭，非断、非常，非有、非无，不来、不去，非成、非坏，非聚、非散，非有性、非无性，非有想、非无想，离其戏论，非我、人、众生、寿者、补特伽罗，无取、无舍，非见、非闻，非觉、非知，是名受持一切法。 “复次，善男子！又，总持法门谓持一切法自性空故，如梦所见、如水泡、如阳焰、如虚空等。又，能持一切法苦、空、无常、无我、寂灭等，自性无作，无乐、无苦，无得、无证。又，总持法门譬如大地能持世间，无大、无小，悉能持之，亦不懈倦。菩萨摩诃萨得总持法门亦复如是，为众生故发菩提心，摄诸善根不令散失，虽经阿僧祇劫无暂懈退。 “又如大地能育养万物，得总持菩萨能化利一切众生故。又如大地能生草木滋养众生，其得总持菩萨能生一切善法利益众生。又如大地不增、不减，任持万物，无高、无下；其得总持菩萨心亦如是，不增、不减，任持众生，无怨亲想。又如大地，受其甘雨终无厌足； 现代汉语译本： 圆满具足，获得相应的法，自在而没有阻碍；智慧圆满，通达一切法——在于自在，远离各种过失。 ‘诸位善男子！这样的总持（Dharani，一种记忆和保持佛法的方式）法门——得到这种法门之后，就不会忘失，总能任持一切智慧。’ ‘再者，善男子！总持法门还能受持一切法，也就是：了解一切法是空（Sunyata，佛教中的空性概念）、无相（animitta，没有特征）、无愿（apranihita，没有希求），无动（aninjya，不动摇）、无作（akriya，没有造作），远离分别，不生、不灭，不是断灭、也不是常恒，不是有、也不是无，不来、不去，不是成就、也不是坏灭，不是聚集、也不是散失，不是有自性、也不是无自性，不是有想、也不是无想，远离戏论，没有我（Atman，灵魂）、人（manusya，人类）、众生（sattva，有情生命）、寿者（jiva，寿命）、补特伽罗（pudgala，个体），没有取、没有舍，不是见、不是闻，不是觉、不是知，这叫做受持一切法。’ ‘再者，善男子！总持法门是指保持一切法自性是空性的缘故，就像梦中所见、像水泡、像阳焰、像虚空等等。而且，能够保持一切法是苦（Dukkha，痛苦）、空、无常（Anitya，变化无常）、无我（Anatman，无我）、寂灭（Nirvana，涅槃）等等，自性没有造作，没有快乐、没有痛苦，没有获得、没有证悟。而且，总持法门譬如大地能够承载世间，无论大小，都能承载，也不会懈怠疲倦。菩萨摩诃萨（Bodhisattva-Mahasattva，伟大的菩萨）得到总持法门也是这样，为了众生的缘故发起菩提心（Bodhi-citta，觉悟之心），摄取各种善根不让它们散失，即使经过阿僧祇劫（Asankhya-kalpa，无数劫）也不会暂时懈怠退转。’ ‘又如大地能够育养万物，得到总持的菩萨能够化度利益一切众生。又如大地能够生长草木滋养众生，得到总持的菩萨能够生出一切善法利益众生。又如大地不增加、不减少，承载万物，没有高低之分；得到总持的菩萨心也是这样，不增加、不减少，承载众生，没有怨亲之想。又如大地，接受甘甜的雨水始终没有厌足；’
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English version: Being complete, one obtains the corresponding Dharma (law, teaching), being free and unobstructed; wisdom is complete, penetrating all Dharmas—in freedom, one is free from all faults. ‘Good men! Such is the Dharani (a mnemonic device, incantation) gate—having obtained this Dharma gate, one will not forget anything, and will be able to uphold all wisdom.’ ‘Furthermore, good men! The Dharani gate can also uphold all Dharmas, namely: understanding that all Dharmas are empty (Sunyata, emptiness), without characteristics (animitta, signless), without wishes (apranihita, wishless), unmoving (aninjya, imperturbable), uncreated (akriya, inaction), free from discrimination, not arising, not ceasing, neither annihilation nor permanence, neither existent nor non-existent, neither coming nor going, neither becoming nor decaying, neither gathering nor scattering, neither having self-nature nor lacking self-nature, neither having thought nor lacking thought, free from conceptual proliferation, without self (Atman, soul), person (manusya, human), sentient being (sattva, being), life-span (jiva, life), or individual (pudgala, person), without taking or rejecting, neither seeing nor hearing, neither feeling nor knowing, this is called upholding all Dharmas.’ ‘Furthermore, good men! The Dharani gate means upholding the self-nature of all Dharmas as empty, like what is seen in a dream, like a water bubble, like a mirage, like space, and so on. Moreover, it can uphold all Dharmas as suffering (Dukkha, suffering), empty, impermanent (Anitya, transience), without self (Anatman, no-self), tranquil extinction (Nirvana, liberation), and so on, self-nature without creation, without pleasure, without pain, without attainment, without realization. Moreover, the Dharani gate is like the earth, which can support the world, whether large or small, it can support it all, without weariness or fatigue. The Bodhisattva-Mahasattva (great Bodhisattva) who obtains the Dharani gate is also like this, for the sake of sentient beings, he arouses the Bodhi-citta (mind of enlightenment), gathers all good roots without letting them be scattered, even after Asankhya-kalpas (innumerable eons) he will not temporarily slacken or regress.’ ‘Moreover, just as the earth can nurture all things, the Bodhisattva who obtains Dharani can transform and benefit all sentient beings. Moreover, just as the earth can grow grass and trees to nourish sentient beings, the Bodhisattva who obtains Dharani can generate all good Dharmas to benefit sentient beings. Moreover, just as the earth does not increase or decrease, supporting all things, without high or low; the mind of the Bodhisattva who obtains Dharani is also like this, not increasing or decreasing, supporting sentient beings, without thoughts of enemies or relatives. Moreover, just as the earth never tires of receiving sweet rain;’ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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其得总持菩萨爱乐听受佛菩萨法曾无厌足。又如大地能持一切种子，依时生长，终无休息；其得总持菩萨能持一切善法种子，依时生长，亦无休息。又如世间勇猛之士威力强盛，能伏他军；其得总持菩萨具大精进，神通威德能伏魔军。 “又，善男子当知：一切法自性无忘、无所记念，是常、无常，是苦、是乐，是净、不净，是我、无我，是有情、非有情，是寿命、非寿命，是补特伽罗、非补特伽罗等。总持法门亦复如是，亦无记念、诸法离二相故亦无所忘。 “又，善男子！总持法门如虚空，任持大地，无所持想；总持一切法，无所持相。又如日光照曜一切相，总持能观照一切法。又如众生能持一切烦恼种，终无散失；总持法门能持一切法，亦不散失。又如诸佛、菩萨记心轮，能转一切众生心意，而无能转相；总持法门持一切法，亦无能持相。 “诸善男子！如前所说种种譬喻无有穷尽，诸法无穷尽，总持法门亦无穷尽，无量无边，如虚空故。” 是时妙吉祥菩萨说此法时，会中有五百菩萨摩诃萨得大总持。 佛说未曾有正法经卷第三 大正藏第 15 册 No. 0628 佛说未曾有正法经 佛说未曾有正法经卷第四 西天译经三藏朝奉大夫试鸿胪卿传教大师 现代汉语译本：他们获得总持（Dharani，总括忆持一切法而不忘失的智慧）的菩萨喜爱听闻佛菩萨的佛法，从没有厌倦满足的时候。又如大地能够承载一切种子，依照时节生长，终究没有停歇；他们获得总持的菩萨能够承载一切善法种子，依照时节生长，也没有停歇。又如世间勇猛的战士威力强盛，能够降伏敌军；他们获得总持的菩萨具有大精进，神通威德能够降伏魔军。 ‘又，善男子，应当知道：一切法的自性没有遗忘、没有所记念，是常、无常，是苦、是乐，是净、不净，是我、无我，是有情、非有情，是寿命、非寿命，是补特伽罗（Pudgala，意为‘人’或‘个体’）、非补特伽罗等。总持法门也同样如此，也没有记念，诸法远离二相的缘故也没有遗忘。’ ‘又，善男子！总持法门如虚空，任凭承载大地，没有承载的想法；总持一切法，没有执持的相状。又如日光照耀一切事物，总持能够观照一切法。又如众生能够执持一切烦恼种子，终究不会散失；总持法门能够执持一切法，也不会散失。又如诸佛、菩萨记心轮，能够转变一切众生的心意，而没有能转变的相状；总持法门执持一切法，也没有能执持的相状。’ ‘诸位善男子！如前面所说的种种譬喻没有穷尽，诸法没有穷尽，总持法门也没有穷尽，无量无边，如同虚空一样。’ 这时，妙吉祥菩萨（Manjushri Bodhisattva）说此法时，会中有五百菩萨摩诃萨（Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas，大菩萨）得到大总持。 佛说未曾有正法经卷第三 大正藏第 15 册 No. 0628 佛说未曾有正法经 佛说未曾有正法经卷第四 西天译经三藏朝奉大夫试鸿胪卿传教大师
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English version: Those Bodhisattvas who have attained Dharani (the wisdom of upholding and remembering all Dharmas without forgetting) delight in listening to the Buddhadharma of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, never tiring or becoming satiated. Just as the earth can bear all seeds, allowing them to grow according to the seasons without ceasing, so too, those Bodhisattvas who have attained Dharani can bear all seeds of good Dharmas, allowing them to grow according to the seasons without ceasing. Just as brave warriors in the world are powerful and can subdue enemy armies, so too, those Bodhisattvas who have attained Dharani possess great diligence, and their supernatural powers and majestic virtue can subdue the armies of Mara. ‘Furthermore, good men, you should know that the nature of all Dharmas has no forgetting and nothing to be remembered. It is permanence and impermanence, suffering and happiness, purity and impurity, self and non-self, sentient and non-sentient, life and non-life, Pudgala (meaning ‘person’ or ‘individual’) and non-Pudgala, and so on. The Dharani Dharma-gate is also like this; it has no remembering, and because all Dharmas are apart from the two aspects, there is also no forgetting.’ ‘Furthermore, good men! The Dharani Dharma-gate is like empty space, allowing the earth to bear everything without the thought of bearing; it upholds all Dharmas without the appearance of upholding. Just as the sunlight illuminates all things, Dharani can contemplate and illuminate all Dharmas. Just as sentient beings can hold all seeds of afflictions without ever losing them, the Dharani Dharma-gate can hold all Dharmas without losing them. Just as the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas remember the wheel of the mind, they can transform the minds and intentions of all sentient beings without the appearance of transforming; the Dharani Dharma-gate holds all Dharmas without the appearance of holding.’ ‘Good men! The various metaphors described earlier are inexhaustible, the Dharmas are inexhaustible, and the Dharani Dharma-gate is also inexhaustible, immeasurable and boundless, like empty space.’ At that time, when Manjushri Bodhisattva was speaking this Dharma, five hundred Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas in the assembly attained great Dharani. The Sutra of Unprecedented Righteous Dharma Spoken by the Buddha, Volume 3 Taisho Tripitaka Volume 15, No. 0628 The Sutra of Unprecedented Righteous Dharma Spoken by the Buddha The Sutra of Unprecedented Righteous Dharma Spoken by the Buddha, Volume 4 Translated by the Tripitaka Master Chao Feng Da Fu Shi Hong Lu Qing Chuan Jiao Da Shi from the Western Heaven -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 臣法天奉 诏译