觀彌勒上生兜率天經贊 1.32

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The eulogy says: The third is the master of the teaching. "Buddha" is a Sanskrit word, abbreviated here as fo. The master of wisdom, in the language of the Tang, is called "the Awakened One." Because he is self-awakened, awakens others, and is perfected in the practice of awakening, he is called "the Buddha." As he differs respectively from the three—ordinary beings, followers of the two vehicles, and bodhisattvas—he takes this as his name. The *Buddhagūmi-śāstra* says: "Possessing all-knowledge and knowledge of all modes, he can awaken himself and can also awaken all sentient beings. Just as one awakens from a sleeping dream, or as a lotus flower opens, he is therefore called 'the Buddha.'" This corresponds to what ancient masters called waking from the stuporous sleep of fundamental ignorance. Within the principles of the characteristics of dharmas, it is the differentiation of the wisdom of awakening to emptiness and the wisdom of knowing existence, the wisdom of principle and the wisdom of phenomena, the real wisdom and the conventional wisdom, and the wisdom of suchness and the wisdom of the full extent [of phenomena]. According to the Sanskrit text, it designates "Bhagavat," which is the tenth epithet. With this single name all virtues are collectively designated; hence even non-Buddhists all refer to their original teachers as Bhagavat. Here, because the chief translator intended brevity and wished to engender wholesome roots according to local customs, he used the name "Buddha."