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佛祖統紀 3.68

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3.68

Seventh Assembly (repeated): Preached in the Universal Radiance Hall, eleven chapters: 1. The Ten Concentrations (Samantabhadra expounded entering ten kinds of samādhis). 2. The Ten Supernormal Powers (Samantabhadra expounded ten kinds of supernormal powers). 3. The Ten Forbearances (Samantabhadra expounded ten kinds of forbearances). 4. Asamkhyeya (The Buddha expounded for Bodhisattva Cittarāja asamkhyeyas, immeasurables, up to ineffable-ineffable kalpas, praising the immeasurable merits of Samantabhadra). 5. Life Span (Cittarāja spoke, comparing the lengths of kalpas across worlds). 6. Bodhisattvas' Dwelling Places (Cittarāja spoke of Mount Qingliang in the northeast as the dwelling place of Mañjuśrī and ten thousand bodhisattvas; it also says that in the land of Cīnasthāna there is the Cave of Nārāyaṇa). 7. Inconceivability of the Buddha (Bodhisattva Padmagarbha expounded the wondrous and inconceivable virtues of the Tathāgata). 8. The Ocean of the Marks of the Ten Bodies (Samantabhadra expounded the ten bodies of the Tathāgata, each possessing marks of a great person numerous as the dust motes of ten Flower Treasury world-oceans). 9. The Light from the Secondary Marks of the Tathāgata (The Buddha addressed Ratnahasta, explaining that the light from the secondary marks illuminates fields numerous as the dust motes of ten buddha-fields; beings in hell encountering this light have their suffering cease, and are all reborn in the Tuṣita Heaven). 10. The Practices of Samantabhadra (Samantabhadra expounded the practice of ten dharmas, and so forth). 11. The Manifestation of the Tathāgata (The Buddha emitted light called 'Manifestation of the Tathāgata'; Samantabhadra expounded the original vows of Rocana).

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