勝鬘寶窟 1.3

1.3

dharmarāja lifted the four bowls with his own hands, establishing the foundation of his teaching in the Deer Park, and finally laid his body down between the Twin Trees, bringing to the utmost his proclamations using the metaphor of the elephant. Whenever the simurgh-like voice arose in song and the golden countenance shifted its brilliance, it was never without pitying their obstinate folly and grieving over their blindness. Thereupon the preeminent ones such as Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra assisted his transformation, and the heroes of the west and the east aided his governance. Therefore, whether through grace or enmity, all was to benefit living beings; whether meeting praise or rebuke, all was the deployment of expedient means (upāya), simply with the desire to make them cast off the crown of ignorance, sever the necklace of childishness, mount the great chariot, and race along the broad thoroughfare. Here, there was