觀音義疏 2.66

2.66

The god of Mastery (Vaśavartin) is the pinnacle of the desire realm. In full it is Paranirmita-vaśavartin, translated here as 'taking mastery over the transformations of others'. Borrowing what is produced by others to complete his own pleasure, he is the lord of Māras. The Jingming jing says: 'Mostly they possess inconceivable liberation.' The bodhisattva abides in the red-colour samādhi, neither grasping nor relinquishing; responding as the Māra king, he causes all māra realms to be none other than the Buddha realm, manifests a body through the four propositions, and leads to the real by means of the provisional.