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世尊昔因文殊至諸佛集處。值諸佛各還本處。惟有一女人。近彼佛坐入於三昧。文殊乃白佛。云何女人得近佛坐。而我不得。佛告文殊。汝但覺此女。令從三昧起。汝自問之。文殊遶女人三匝。鳴指一下。乃托至梵天。盡其神力。而不能出。世尊云。假使百千文殊亦出此女人定不得。下方過一十二億河沙國土。有罔明菩薩。能出此女人定。須臾罔明大士從地湧出。禮拜世尊。世尊勅罔明。却至女人前。鳴指一下。女人於是從定而出。

Long ago, the Bhagavat was at the gathering place of the Buddhas when Mañjuśrī arrived, just as the Buddhas were each returning to their original places. Only one woman sat near that Buddha, absorbed in samādhi. Mañjuśrī addressed the Buddha, "Why can this woman sit near the Buddha while I cannot?" The Buddha told Mañjuśrī, "You need only awaken this woman and make her arise from samādhi, and you can ask her yourself." Mañjuśrī circumambulated the woman three times, snapped his fingers once, and then lifted her up to the Brahmā heaven, exhausting all his spiritual powers, but he could not bring her out of samādhi. The Bhagavat said, "Even if there were a hundred thousand Mañjuśrīs, they could not bring this woman out of samādhi. Down below, past twelve hundred million worlds as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, there is Bodhisattva Ābhāsvara, who can bring this woman out of samādhi." In an instant, the great being Ābhāsvara welled up from the earth and bowed to the Bhagavat. The Bhagavat instructed Ābhāsvara to go before the woman and snap his fingers once. Thereupon the woman emerged from samādhi.