大方便佛報恩經 1.12

1.12

The Buddha said: "Good sons! Listen attentively! Listen attentively, and reflect on it well! I shall explain and analyze it for you. To the west, across immeasurable hundreds of thousands of buddha-worlds from here, there is a world named Sahā. In it there is a buddha named Śākyamuni Tathāgata, Arhat, Samyaksaṃbuddha, Vidyācaraṇasaṃpanna, Sugata, Lokavid, Anuttara, Puruṣadamyasārathi, Śāstā Devamanuṣyāṇām, Buddha, Bhagavat. Surrounded by a great assembly, he now wishes to preach the Sūtra of Great Skill in Means and Great Repaying of Kindness for the great assembly, in order to benefit all sentient beings; to pull out the poisonous arrows of perverse doubt from all sentient beings; to cause bodhisattvas who have newly generated the resolve to become firmly established in bodhi without falling back; to cause all śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas to reach the ultimate ekayāna path; to cause all great bodhisattvas swiftly to accomplish bodhi and repay the Buddha's kindness; to cause all sentient beings to remember weighty kindness; to cause sentient beings to cross over the ocean of suffering; and to cause sentient beings to filial-mindedly support their parents. For these causes and conditions, he has emitted this radiance."