諸經要集 1.15

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又觀佛三昧經云。昔過去久遠。有佛出世。號釋迦牟尼。滅度之後有一王子。名曰金幢。憍慢邪見不信佛法。有一比丘。名定自在。語王子言。世有佛像眾寶嚴飾。然為可愛。可暫入塔觀佛形像。王子即隨共入塔中。見像相好白比丘言。佛像端嚴猶尚如此。況佛真身。比丘告言。汝今見像不能禮者。應當合掌稱南無佛。是時王子即便合掌稱南無佛。還宮繫念塔中像故。即於後夜夢見佛像。夢已歡喜捨離邪見歸依三寶。由一入塔稱佛善根。命終得值九百萬億那由他佛。於諸佛所逮得甚深念佛三昧。得三昧故。諸佛現前為其授記。從是已來經於百萬阿僧祇劫。不墮惡道。乃至今日獲得甚深首楞嚴定。昔王子者。今財首菩薩是。以是因緣。智者應當如是學念佛也。又法華經偈云。

Furthermore, the Guanfo sanmei jing says: Long ago in the past, a Buddha appeared in the world named Śākyamuni. After his parinirvāṇa, there was a prince named Jinzhuang (Golden Banner) who was arrogant and held wrong views, having no faith in the Buddha's teaching. There was a bhikṣu named Dingt zizai (Samādhi-Mastery) who said to the prince, "In this world there is an image of the Buddha adorned with many jewels, and it is truly delightful; you might enter the stūpa for a moment to behold the Buddha's bodily form." The prince then followed him into the stūpa. Seeing the marks and signs of the image, he said to the bhikṣu, "Even an image of the Buddha is dignified and magnificent like this—how much more so the Buddha's true body!" The bhikṣu told him, "If you now see the image and are unable to prostrate, you should join your palms and recite, 'Namo Buddhāya.'" Thereupon the prince joined his palms and recited, "Namo Buddhāya." Because he returned to the palace with his mind fixed on the image in the stūpa, later that night he saw the Buddha image in a dream. Having had the dream, he rejoiced, abandoned his wrong views, and took refuge in the Triratna. Due to the root of good from entering the stūpa once and invoking the Buddha, at the end of his life he was able to meet nine hundred billion nayutas of Buddhas. In the presence of those Buddhas he attained the profound buddhānusmṛti-samādhi. Because he attained this samādhi, the Buddhas appeared before him and conferred vyākaraṇa upon him. From then on, passing through a million asaṃkhyeya kalpas, he did not fall into the evil destinies, and up to the present day he has attained the profound Śūraṅgama-samādhi. That former prince is now the Bodhisattva Cai-shou (Ratnacūḍa). By this causal condition, the wise should practice mindfulness of the Buddha in this manner. Furthermore, a verse in the Lotus Sūtra says: