The Flower Ornament Sūtra 38.1
སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ 38.1
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38.1
དེ་ནས་ཡང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོས་ཡང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དེ་དག་ལ་སྨྲས་པ། ཀྱེ་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་དག །ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ལོགས་ན་སྔན་ཅད་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བཞུགས་བཞུགས་པའི་རི་དྲང་སྲོང་འབྱུང་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཡོད་དེ། །དེ་ལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་རྡོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་འཁོར་སུམ་བརྒྱ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཆོས་སྟོན་ཏོ། །ཀྱེ་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་དག་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་ལོགས་ན་སྔོན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བཞུགས་བཞུགས་པའི་རི་དཔལ་གྱི་ཕུང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་
In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Dharmamati teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of five hundred bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the west, there is a mountain called Possessed of Vajra Radiance, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Walks with the Gait of a Lion teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of three hundred bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the north, there is a mountain called Heap of Incense, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Gandhahastin teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of three thousand bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the east, there is a mountain called Mountain of Meadows,⁵ where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Mañjuśrī teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of ten thousand bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the northeastern direction, there is a mountain called Vajra Mountain, Site of Four Great Oceans, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Dharmodgata teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of twelve hundred bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the southeastern direction, there is a mountain called Stūpa, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Divine Aggregates teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of one thousand bodhisattvas.
Translations (2)
- The Ten Bhūmis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array — Peter Alan Roberts & Lowell Cook, English
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation