楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 1.14

1.14

This is the general prologue section. 'Thus' indicates the Dharma heard, and is also an expression of faith and compliance. 'Have I heard' means that Ānanda heard and retained this Dharma from the Buddha. 'At one time' is the time of the auspicious gathering between the teacher and his disciples. 'The Buddha' means the Awakened One, signifying that, having accomplished the path of awakening, he availed himself of the opportunity to preach the Dharma to guide and benefit the multitude of living beings. 'Dwelling on the summit of Mount Laṅkā by the shore of the southern sea' is the location where the Dharma was spoken. 'Adorned with jewelled flowers' indicates the excellence of the place. 'A great bhikṣu [saṅgha] and an assembly of bodhisattvas' enumerates the assembly who heard it together. 'Had come from different buddha-kṣetras': mentioning the distant implies the near, so as to reveal their great numbers. 'Immeasurable samādhis' and so forth praises the virtues of the bodhisattvas. From 'Mahāmati' onward, the virtues of Mahāmati are praised individually. 'All the Buddhas consecrated his head with their hands' clarifies that his stage resides at equal awakening and that he is about to be conferred the Buddha stage; therefore they perform abhiṣeka on him. 'The realms appearing from one's own mind': all good and bad realms arise from one's own mind; Mahāmati understands this well, so his wisdom is supremely transcendent. 'The various minds and forms of sentient beings' means that the five aggregates of all sentient beings are of many different kinds; Mahāmati universally responds to them through immeasurable gates of deliverance, which shows the depth and breadth of his Dharma gates. 'The five dharmas' are nāma, lakṣaṇa, vikalpa, samyagjñāna, and tathatā. 'The three svabhāvas' are vikalpa, paratantra, and pariniṣpanna. 'Consciousness' refers to the eight consciousnesses. 'The two kinds of selflessness' are the selflessness of persons and the selflessness of dharmas. Mahāmati is able to completely and thoroughly penetrate all the above dharmas and serve as the initiator for the assembly; this is why the Buddha profoundly praised him.