འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་རང་བཞན་མཉམ་པ་ཉད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 13.23

13.23

Made offerings to him and honored him. {51}

“The one who was the king’s son was there,
Puṇyamatin, who had constant faith and trust.
When he knew that many bhikṣus had wickedness in mind,
He became a protector for his teacher. {52}

“Five hundred thousand people,
Armored and holding swords and clubs,
Constantly surrounded the bhikṣu
Who taught the conduct that is endlessly correct. {53}

“He taught to his followers the Dharma
That phenomena are empty, with no self and no soul.
Those who were fixated on objects and were attached to a self
Did not approve of the bhikṣu’s teaching. {54}

“Those bhikṣus rose up and took up weapons,
As they did not approve of emptiness and peace.
They said, ‘What this bhikṣu is teaching is not the Dharma,
It will be meritorious if we kill him.’ {55}

“The bhikṣu was not afraid when he saw their weapons.
He was aware of the emptiness of phenomena,
That there was no being or man there to be killed,
That these phenomena were as insubstantial as plaster. {56}

“The bhikṣu placed his hands together upon his head
And spoke these words of homage to the jinas:
‘Through the truth of the emptiness of phenomena
May these weapons become coral tree flowers!’ {57}

“He possessed the conduct and discipline of the Sage
And as soon as he spoke those words and no others,
The earth and its forests shook
And the weapons became coral tree flowers. {58}

“At that time, the bhikṣus who believed in objective reality
And who were holding weapons became ill-shaped in body.
They could not approach any nearer
And became frightened and greatly amazed. {59}

“Those who had faith and trust in the Lord of sages,
Those who delighted in emptiness and peace,
They cried out ‘A la la!’¹³⁴⁴ a thousand times,
And presented the bhikṣu with hundreds of lengths of cloth. {60}

“The bhikṣu had love for them
And said to all the people before him,
‘I will practice bodhisattva conduct
For the sake of those beings who are angry with me.’ {61}

“Then for no fewer than eighty years
He taught emptiness, the treasure of the jinas.
And the son of the king protected him
From the thousands of bhikṣus who were his adversaries. {62}

“During that time he was despised,
And his bhikṣus became few in number.
Evil things were heard said about him,