新華嚴經論 16.9

16.9

Second, in explaining the bodhisattva's name: Mañjuśrī is translated here as Wondrous Virtue (Miaode). Because his wondrous wisdom is adept at discriminating right from wrong with mastery, he is called Wondrous Virtue. This corresponds to the mao position of the east; this indicates that mao governs the zhen hexagram of the east, and zhen is thunderous movement, the beginning of rousing the hibernating creatures into life. This illustrates that this wondrous wisdom is the beginning of stirring and generating the mind of the ten faiths; therefore he is also called Wondrous Birth Bodhisattva (Miaosheng Pusa), in order to explain that all Buddhas generate the understanding of the ten faiths from this wisdom, and ultimately fulfill the ocean of all vows and practices of bodhi. That the world is named Golden illustrates the adducing of the cause and effect whose essence is the pure and unstained Dharma. It also indicates the second month of the golden womb, signifying the ten faiths as the sacred womb. The omnipresence of the Golden World and the omnipresence of Mañjuśrī illustrate the pervasiveness of the pure wisdom devoid of inherent nature. That the Buddha's name is Immovable Wisdom (Acalajñāna) is because fundamental ignorance is originally empty and has no entity that can move, and is thus called Immovable Wisdom. It merely responds to objects to know phenomena and responds to capacities to know faculties, like an echo responding to a sound, having no locus or physical form that can be apprehended—this is called wisdom. Because there is nothing to accept or reject, it is called immovable.