淨土論 1.4

1.4

稽首西方極樂界，阿彌陀仙佛世尊，
巧立弘誓救群生，我願往生頭面禮。
端處蓮華臺王座，身放八方妙光明，
五眼遍視無餘界，我願往生頭面禮。
五分圓明性常住，大悲應接壽無量，
以無緣慈攝眾生，我願往生頭面禮。
寶界莊嚴含萬色，皆從如意珠玉生，
見聞甞嗅觸滅罪，我願往生頭面禮。
水鳥林管發清歌，其音演說甚深法，
眾生聞者獲不退，我願往生頭面禮。
觀音菩薩大慈悲，等視眾生同一子，
寶手接引如慈母，我願往生頭面禮。
勢至菩薩大自在，行坐傾動大千界，
化佛菩薩皆雲集，我願往生頭面禮。
佛子眾集量如海，猶如眾星拱北辰，
等觀三界救諸苦，我願往生頭面禮。
我今披閱佛大藏，總集句義為九章，
讀者皆發菩提心，普願往生安樂國。

I bow my head to the Western realm of Sukhāvatī, / To the Sage Amitābha, the Buddha, the World-Honoured One, / Who skillfully established his great vows to save all beings; / Wishing for rebirth, I pay homage with head to the ground. / Properly seated upon the throne of the king of lotus pedestals, / His body radiates wondrous light throughout the eight directions; / With the five eyes he views all realms without remainder; / Wishing for rebirth, I pay homage with head to the ground. / The five aspects [of the dharmakāya] are fully luminous and his nature is eternally abiding; / With great compassion he welcomes beings, his life span immeasurable; / Drawing living beings with causeless compassion; / Wishing for rebirth, I pay homage with head to the ground. / The adornments of the jeweled realm contain myriad colours, / All produced from wish-fulfilling gems and jades; / Seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or touching them extinguishes sins; / Wishing for rebirth, I pay homage with head to the ground. / Waters, birds, and forest flutes send forth pure songs, / Whose sounds proclaim the extremely profound Dharma; / Living beings who hear them attain non-retrogression; / Wishing for rebirth, I pay homage with head to the ground. / Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva has great loving-kindness and compassion, / Viewing living beings equally as an only child; / Welcoming and guiding with jeweled hands like an affectionate mother; / Wishing for rebirth, I pay homage with head to the ground. / Mahāsthāmaprāpta Bodhisattva possesses great sovereignty, / Walking and sitting, he shakes the great chiliocosm; / Nirmāṇa buddhas and bodhisattvas gather like clouds; / Wishing for rebirth, I pay homage with head to the ground. / The assembly of the Buddha's heirs gathered is vast as an ocean, / Like the multitude of stars revolving around the Northern Star; / Viewing the three realms with equanimity, they rescue all suffering; / Wishing for rebirth, I pay homage with head to the ground. / Having now perused the Buddha's great canon, / I have gathered its phrases and meanings into nine chapters; / May all readers give rise to bodhicitta, / And universally vow for rebirth in the land of Sukhāvatī.