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# 注維摩詰經 6.47

注維摩詰經 6.47

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [6.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.6.47)

大迦葉說是語時，三萬二千天子皆發阿耨多羅三藐三菩提心。爾時維摩詰語大迦葉：仁者！十方無量阿僧祇世界中作魔王者，多是住不可思議解脫菩薩，以方便力教化眾生現作魔王。

> When Mahākāśyapa spoke these words, thirty-two thousand devaputras all generated the mind of anuttarā-samyak-saṃbodhi. At that time Vimalakīrti said to Mahākāśyapa: 'Virtuous one! Those who act as Māra kings in the boundless asaṃkhyeya worlds of the ten directions are mostly bodhisattvas abiding in inconceivable liberation, who manifest as Māra kings using the power of upāya to teach and transform sentient beings.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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- [佛說維摩詰經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.vimalakirtinirdesa*zh-zhi-qian.1.97) — Classical Chinese

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