[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [華嚴五十要問答](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869) › 1.20 # 華嚴五十要問答 1.20 華嚴五十要問答 1.20 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1.20) 問：佛母摩耶諸眷屬等義相云何？答：依小乘教，佛母摩耶，此贍部州是實佛母，餘世界中則無實也，為佛是化故。依三乘始教，於一三千所有佛等，竝是化佛摩耶眷屬等，亦即非實。諸三千界處亦有別佛，化義同前。淨土之中，佛母等諸眷屬者亦唯是化，仍是法門化，非八相化也。若三乘終教，如三千等同類世界現成佛者，竝是化佛。何以知之？《大智度論》成佛世界，廣引如疏，得知竝是一佛化境、多處現身，故是化也。摩醯首羅天身亦是化作。由權顯閻浮菩提樹下是化，故蓮華藏世界所有佛者是實報也。通體相用，十方淨土所現佛者是報佛也，所有親屬是法門也，為現引此娑婆小根異習眾生故，如《大無量壽經》說。若依一乘，所有諸佛在釋迦佛所化教網名義顯現者，竝是釋迦佛海印定力。以此義準諸眷屬等，皆悉同然。體相用義及變化改性等，準此可知也。 > Question: What are the characteristics and meaning of the Buddha's mother Māyā, his retinue, and so forth? > > Answer: According to the Hīnayāna teaching, the Buddha's mother Māyā in this Jambudvīpa is the real Buddha's mother; in other worlds, there is no real one, because the Buddha is a transformation. According to the initial teaching of the triyāna, all the buddhas and others in a trichiliocosm are transformed buddhas, and Māyā, the retinue, and so forth are likewise not real. In other trichiliocosms, there are also other buddhas, whose transformative meaning is the same as before. In the pure lands, the Buddha's mother and other retinues are also solely transformations; however, they are transformations of the Dharma-gate, not transformations of the eight phases. In the final teaching of the triyāna, those who manifest the attainment of buddhahood in worlds of the same kind, such as trichiliocosms, are all transformed buddhas. How is this known? The Da zhidu lun extensively cites worlds of becoming a buddha as found in the commentaries, from which it is known that they are all the transformation realm of a single buddha manifesting bodies in many places, and therefore they are transformations. The body of the Maheśvara deva is also created by transformation. Because it provisionally reveals that \[the Buddha\] under the Bodhi tree in Jambudvīpa is a transformation, all the buddhas in the Padmagarbha-lokadhātu are true saṃbhoga\[kāyas\]. Encompassing essence, marks, and function, the buddhas manifested in the pure lands of the ten directions are saṃbhogakāya buddhas, and all their relatives are Dharma-gates, manifested to guide sentient beings of inferior capacities and different habits in this Sahā world, as spoken in the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha-sūtra. According to the Ekayāna, all the buddhas manifested in name and meaning within the teaching-net transformed by Śākyamuni Buddha are the power of Śākyamuni Buddha's sāgara-mudrā-samādhi. By this principle, all retinues and so forth are likewise identical. The meanings of essence, marks, and function, as well as transformation and altering nature, can be understood by analogy with this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1.19) - [Next: 1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1.21) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869~en-mt.1.20) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [華嚴一乘成佛妙義](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1890.1.25.3) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1869.1.20) · Pramāṇa