[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Buddhist tantras and tantric exegesis](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra) › [Performance tantras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya) › [Mahāvairocanābhisambodhisūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana) › [大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經 (Shubhakarasimha & Yixing 724)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh) › 1.13 # The Awakening of Mahāvairocana 1.13 大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經 (Śubhakarasiṃha & Yixing 724) 1.13 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh.1.13) 爾時執金剛祕密主白佛言：「世尊！願救世者演說心相，菩薩有幾種得無畏處？」如是說已，摩訶毘盧遮那世尊告金剛手言：「諦聽，極善思念。祕密主！彼愚童凡夫修諸善業、害不善業，當得善無畏。若如實知我，當得身無畏。若於取蘊所集我身捨自色像觀，當得無我無畏。若害蘊住法攀緣，當得法無畏。若害法住無緣，當得法無我無畏。若復一切蘊界處、能執所執、我壽命等及法無緣空、自性無性，此空智生，當得一切法自性平等無畏。祕密主！若真言門修菩薩行諸菩薩，深修觀察十緣生句，當於真言行通達作證。云何為十？謂如幻、陽焰、夢、影、乾闥婆城、響、水月、浮泡、虛空華、旋火輪。祕密主！彼真言門修菩薩行諸菩薩，當如是觀察。云何為幻？謂如呪術藥力能造所造種種色像，惑自眼故，見希有事展轉相生、往來十方，然彼非去非不去。何以故？本性淨故。如是真言幻持誦成就，能生一切。復次祕密主！陽焰性空，彼依世人妄想成立有所談議，如是真言想唯是假名。復次祕密主！如夢中所見晝日牟呼栗多，剎那歲時等住，種種異類受諸苦樂，覺已都無所見。如是夢真言行，應知亦爾。復次祕密主！以影喻解了真言能發悉地，如面緣於鏡而現面像，彼真言悉地當如是知。復次祕密主！以乾闥婆城譬解了成就悉地宮。復次祕密主！以響喻解了真言聲，如緣聲有響，彼真言者當如是解。復次祕密主！如因月出故照於淨水而現月影像，如是真言水月喻，彼持明者當如是說。復次祕密主！如天降雨生泡，彼真言悉地種種變化，當知亦爾。復次祕密主！如空中無眾生、無壽命，彼作者不可得；以心迷亂故，而生如是種種妄見。復次祕密主！譬如火燼，若人執持在手，而以旋轉空中，有輪像生。祕密主，應如是了知大乘句、心句、無等等句、必定句、正等覺句、漸次大乘生句，當得具足法財、出生種種工巧大智，如實遍知一切心想。」 > Then the vajradhara Lord of Mysteries said to the Buddha, “World- > > honored One, I beg you, O savior of the world, to explain the characteris- > > tics of the mind. How many stations of fearlessness are there to be obtained > > by a bodhisattva?” > > When Vajrapāṇi had finished speaking thus, the World-honored One > > Mahāvairocana addressed him, saying, “Listen attentively and consider most > > carefully \[what I say\]. Lord of Mysteries, when those ordinary people, foolish and childlike, cultivate wholesome actions and renounce unwholesome actions, they will obtain ‘fearlessness of the wholesome.’ If they know the self as it really is, they will obtain ‘fearlessness of the body.’ If they observe their own body composed of the aggregates of attachment, abandoning any material image of themselves, they will obtain ‘fearlessness of no-self.’ If they renounce the aggregates and dwell in the cognition of dharmas, they will obtain ‘fearlessness of dharmas.’ If they renounce dharmas and dwell without any object \[of cognition\], they will obtain ‘fearlessness of the noself of dharmas.’ Again, all \[five\] aggregates, \[eighteen\] elements, and \[twelve\] sense fields, the grasper and the grasped, self, life, and so on, as well as dharmas and objectlessness, are empty and their own-nature is without any \[essential\] nature—when this knowledge of emptiness is born, they will obtain ‘fearlessness of the equality of the own-nature of all dharmas.’ > > “Lord of Mysteries, if bodhisattvas cultivating bodhisattva practices via the gateway of mantras examine in deep cultivation the ten propositions about dependent arising, they will master mantra practices and achieve realization therein. What are the ten \[propositions about dependent arising\]? They are, namely, that \[dependent arising\] is like an illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection, a gandharva city, an echo, the moon \[reflected\] in water, bubbles, a flower in empty space, and a whirling wheel of fire. Lord of Mysteries, those bodhisattvas cultivating bodhisattva practices via the gateway of mantras should observe in the following manner. > > “What is an illusion? It is just as when, through the art of magic and the power of drugs, various visible images, both those creating \[other illusions\] and those created, deceive one’s eyes so that one sees remarkable things that produce one another in succession, coming and going in the ten directions, and yet they neither go nor do they not go. Why? Because their original nature is pure. In the same way illusions \[produced by\] mantras are able to produce anything through success in recitation. > > “Next, Lord of Mysteries, a mirage is by nature empty; it is in dependence on the false notions of worldlings that it is established and may be spoken about. In the same way the notion of mantras is merely a provisional designation. > > “Next, Lord of Mysteries, just as things seen in a dream last for a day, > > a muhūrta (forty-eight minutes), a kṣaṇa (instant), a year, or some other > > \[period of time\], are of various strange kinds, and cause experiences of all > > manner of suffering and happiness, yet upon awakening there is nothing > > whatsoever to be seen, so too should the dreamlike mantra practices be known > > to be thus. > > “Next, Lord of Mysteries, with the analogy of a reflection one compre- > > hends how mantras are able to produce siddhi. Just as a face in dependence > > on a mirror manifests an image of the face, so too should one understand > > siddhi \[produced by\] mantras. > > “Next, Lord of Mysteries, with the analogy of an \[imaginary\] gandharva > > city one comprehends the accomplishment of a palace \[produced as\] siddhi. > > “Next, Lord of Mysteries, with the analogy of an echo one comprehends > > the sound of mantras. Just as an echo exists in dependence on sound, so too > > should the mantrin understand \[mantras\]. > > “Next, Lord of Mysteries, just as the moon rises with the result that it > > shines upon clear water and manifests a reflected image of the moon, so too > — Rolf W. 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Giebel 2005, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-mt.1.13) — English, machine translation ## Other recensions (1) - [Rnam par snang mdzad chen po mngon par rdzogs par byang chub pa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*bo.1.13) — Classical Tibetan ## Linked texts (1) - [大毘盧遮那成佛經疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1796.3.10) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh.1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh.1.13) · Pramāṇa