釋迦譜 1.113

1.113

釋迦牟尼佛告大眾言。我昔無數劫時。於妙光佛末法之中。出家學道聞五十三佛名。聞已合掌心生歡喜。復教他人令得聞持。他人聞已展轉相教乃至三千人。此三千人異口同音。稱諸佛名一心敬禮。以是因緣功德力故。即得超越無數億劫生死之罪。其千人者花光佛為首。下至毘舍。於莊嚴劫得成佛道。過去千佛是也。此中千佛者拘留孫佛為首。下至樓至如來。於賢劫中次第成佛。後千佛者日光如來為首。下至須彌相。於星宿劫中當得成佛。現在十方諸佛善德如來等。亦得聞是五十三佛名故。於十方世界各得成佛。過去五十三佛名。在藥王藥上觀經。三千佛名在諸佛集功德花經。千佛名號國土種姓。父母弟子眷屬眾會年歲在賢劫經。釋迦在賢劫中千佛第四成佛。

Śākyamuni Buddha addressed the great assembly, saying: 'Formerly, incalculable kalpas ago, during the Semblance Dharma of the Buddha Vimalaprabha, I left home to train in the Path and heard the names of fifty-three Buddhas. Having heard them, I joined my palms and felt joy in my heart. I then taught others, causing them to hear and uphold them. Having heard them, others taught one another in turn, up to three thousand persons. These three thousand persons, with different mouths but one voice, recited the names of the Buddhas and single-mindedly paid homage. Through the power of the merit of this cause and condition, they were immediately able to transcend the transgressions of birth and death spanning incalculable billions of kalpas. Among them, one thousand persons—with the Buddha Prabhāketu at their head, down to Vipaśyin—attained the Buddha Path during the Vyūhakalpa; these are the thousand Buddhas of the past. The middle thousand Buddhas—with Krakucchanda Buddha at their head, down to the Tathāgata Rucika—successively attain Buddhahood during the Bhadrakalpa. The latter thousand Buddhas—with the Tathāgata Sūryaprabha at their head, down to Sumeruketu—shall attain Buddhahood during the Nakṣatrakalpa. The presently existing Buddhas of the ten directions, such as the Tathāgata Bhadraśrī and others, also, because they heard these names of the fifty-three Buddhas, each attained Buddhahood in the worlds of the ten directions. The names of the past fifty-three Buddhas are in the Sūtra on the Contemplation of the Two Bodhisattvas Bhaiṣajyarāja and Bhaiṣajyasamudgata. The names of the three thousand Buddhas are in the Sūtra on the Flowers of Assembled Merits of the Buddhas. The names, lands, castes, parents, disciples, retinues, assemblies, and lifespans of the thousand Buddhas are in the Bhadrakalpikasūtra. Śākya is the fourth to attain Buddhahood among the middle thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa.'