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# 妙法蓮華經 4.6

The Lotus Sutra 4.6

- **Language:** English

### [4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva~en-bdk.4.6)

“There will be immeasurable incalculable thousands of myriads of koṭis of nayutas of bodhisattvas who have attained great transcendent powers and the fourfold unobstructed wisdom. They will be able skillfully to lead and inspire sentient beings. The number of śrāvakas there will be impossible to calculate. They will all perfect the six transcendent powers, the three sciences, and the eight liberations.  
  
“Such will be the immeasurable merits of this buddha’s land, being perfect in adornment. The kalpa will be called Ratnāvabhāsa and his land will be called Suviśuddha. This buddha’s lifespan will last for immeasurable incalculable kalpas, and the Dharma will abide for a very long time. After the parinirvāṇa of that buddha, stupas of the seven treasures will be erected everywhere throughout the land.”  
  
Then the Bhagavat, wanting to elaborate on the meaning of this further, spoke these verses:  
  
O monks! Listen carefully!  
  
The path that the heir of the buddhas  
  
Has practiced by learning skillful means  
  
Cannot be conceived.  
  
Because the bodhisattvas know  
  
That sentient beings long for inferior teachings  
  
And are afraid of great knowledge,  
  
They make themselves either śrāvakas  
  
Or pratyekabuddhas.  
  
They inspire those sentient beings  
  
Using innumerable skillful means, saying:  
  
We are śrāvakas and still very far away  
  
From attaining the buddha path.  
  
They save immeasurable sentient beings,  
  
All of whom they cause to attain perfection;  
  
And they even cause those who are lazy,  
  
Or who have lowly intentions,  
  
Gradually to become buddhas.  
  
These beings secretly carry out the bodhisattva practice  
  
While outwardly calling themselves śrāvakas.  
  
Having little desire,  
  
Their thoughts fixed on birth and death,  
  
They in fact purify the buddha lands.  
  
These bodhisattvas show sentient beings  
  
That they have the three poisons  
  
And further they reveal the mark of false views.  
  
In this way my disciples save  
  
Sentient beings through skillful means.  
  
If I fully disclosed  
  
That they had taken on various forms,  
  
The sentient beings hearing this  
  
Would immediately become doubtful.  
  
This Pūrṇa has now practiced the path  
  
Under thousands of koṭis of buddhas in the past,  
  
And he has propagated and protected  
  
The teaching of these buddhas.  
  
Seeking the highest wisdom  
  
Under all these buddhas,  
  
He showed that he was the foremost  
  
Among the disciples,  
  
And that he was knowledgeable and wise.  
  
Fearless in his teaching,  
  
He was able to gladden the people.  
  
He never tired in performing  
  
The actions of a buddha.  
  
He has already attained the great transcendent powers  
  
And is endowed with the fourfold unobstructed wisdom.

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva~en-mt.4.6) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

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