仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經 1.44

1.44

"The Bhagavat, the Guide, of adamantine body,
With mental activities extinguished, turns the wheel of Dharma;
With the eight eloquence-qualities of a complete voice, he expounds it,
And hundreds of thousands of myriads of the assembled attain the Way.
Devas and humans alike cultivate the practice of renunciation,
Able to train in all the bodhisattva paths.
The wondrous Dharma gateway of the merits of the five kṣāntis,
The fourteen bodhisattvas are able to comprehend clearly.
The three ranks of sages and ten holy ones practice within kṣānti;
Only the Buddha alone can exhaust the source.
The vast ocean of Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha is the treasury of the Three Jewels,
In which immeasurable merits are contained.
The bodhisattvas of the ten virtues generate the great mind,
Bidding long farewell to the ocean of suffering's cycle in the three realms:
Inferior and middling virtues make millet-scattered kings;
Superior ten virtues make iron-wheel kings.
The lineage of practice, copper-wheel, [rules] two continents;
The silver-wheel, three heavens, is the lineage of inherent nature.
The lineage of the Path, of firm virtue, is the wheel-turning king,
With seven jewels and a golden wheel [ruling] the four continents.
The thirty individuals in the holy womb of subduing kṣānti—
The ten abidings, ten practices, and ten dedications—
All buddhas of the three times train within them;
None is not born from this subduing kṣānti.
It is the root of the practices of all bodhisattvas;
Therefore generating the mind and faith is difficult.
If one attains faithful mind, one will never retrogress,
Entering the path of the non-arising first ground.
Transforming and benefiting oneself and others all equally:
This is called the bodhisattva's initial generation of the mind.
The Pramuditā bodhisattva is a wheel-turning king,
Initially illumining the equal principle of the two truths;
Expediently transforming sentient beings, he roams a hundred lands;
Pure in dāna-giving, he benefits the multitude of beings.
Prajñā that enters principle is called 'abiding';
Abiding that gives birth to virtuous conduct is called 'ground'.
The first abiding with one mind is endowed with all virtues,
Remaining unmoving within paramārtha.
The Vimalā bodhisattva is king of Trāyastriṃśa,
Manifesting forms in the six destinies across a thousand lands;
His feet of discipline pure and entirely complete,
He leaves far behind all faults of erroneous infractions.
Without characteristics, without conditions, of real nature;
Without substance, without arising, without dual illumination:
The Prabhākarī bodhisattva is king of Yāma,
Responding in form, he travels to ten thousand buddha-lands.
He skillfully penetrates samādhis,
Concealing or revealing at will, endowed with the three knowledges.
Pramuditā, Vimalā, and Prabhākarī
Can extinguish the afflictions of physical bondage;
Comprehensively observing all deeds of body and speech,
The purity of the dharmatā is illumined completely.
The Arciṣmatī bodhisattva has great energetic vigor,
As king of Tuṣita Heaven traveling through a hundred million lands;
Real knowledge is quiescent, and expedient knowledge
Penetrates the principle of non-arising, illumining both emptiness and existence.
The Sudurjayā bodhisattva attains impartiality,
As king of Nirmāṇarati Heaven in ten billion lands.
Contemplating emptiness of emptiness without dual characteristics,
He extends his form into the six destinies without exception.
The Abhimukhī bodhisattva is the Sovereign King,
Illumining and seeing that characteristics arisen from conditions are not dual;
The light of paramārtha knowledge can pervade everywhere,
As he travels to a hundred billion lands to transform sentient beings.
The grounds of Arciṣmatī, Sudurjayā, and Abhimukhī
Can sever the three obstructions and the delusions of a confused mind;
Quiescent wisdom of emptiness, a contemplation without conditions,
Reflects back to illumine the limitless realm of the empty mind.
The Dūraṅgamā bodhisattva is king of the first dhyāna,
Abiding in signlessness and anutpattikadharmakṣānti;
With skillful means all impartial,
He constantly transforms beings in a trillion lands.
Entering the ground of the flow of Dharma, the Acalā,
Forever free from fragmented [birth and death], transcending all realms of existence,
Constantly contemplating paramārtha, illumining non-duality,
In twenty-one births of empty and quiescent practice,
The latent ignorance of clinging to the Dharma that accords with the Path—
The great being of Dūraṅgamā alone can sever it.
The Acalā bodhisattva is king of the second dhyāna,
Attaining a transformational body, constantly at ease;
Able to be in lands like the dust motes of a million worlds,
According to their shapes and kinds, he transforms sentient beings;
Fully knowing the immeasurable kalpas of the three times,
He remains unmoving in the ultimate truth.
The Sādhumatī bodhisattva is king of the third dhyāna,
Able to manifest simultaneously in a thousand Ganges [sands of worlds];
Constantly in unconditioned, empty and quiescent practice,
In a single thought he comprehends the buddha-treasuries like Ganges sands.
The Dharmameghā bodhisattva is king of the fourth dhyāna,
Transforming beings in a hundred million Ganges [sands of] lands;
First entering the vajra[-like samādhi], everything is understood;
Twenty-nine births are forever transcended;
Contemplating the lower kṣānti within quiescent kṣānti,
With one turn he reaches wondrous awakening, the unequaled.
The grounds of Acalā, Sādhumatī, and Dharmameghā
Eliminate all previous latent habits of ignorance;
The characteristics and consciousness of latent ignorance are transformed together;
The principle of the two truths is perfected, leaving nothing unexhausted.
Correct awakening is formless, pervading the dharma realm;
Thirty births exhausted, knowledge is completely luminous;
Quiescent illumination, unconditioned, true liberation;
Responding with great compassion, unequaled by any;
Serene and unmoving, constantly at peace;
Radiant light shines everywhere, yet has nothing illumined.
The three ranks of sages and ten holy ones abide in retribution;
Only the Buddha alone dwells in the Pure Land.
All sentient beings abide only temporarily;
Having ascended the adamantine source, one is constantly unmoving.
The Tathāgata's three karmas are of immeasurable virtue;
He extends equal compassion toward all sentient beings.
The Dharma King is the supreme tree among humans,
Universally shading the great assembly with immeasurable light.
His mouth constantly expounds the Dharma, never without meaning;
The knowledge of his mind is quiescent, illuminating without conditions.
The lion among humans expounds it for us,
Profound sentences and meanings never before heard;
Lands numerous as dust and sand all tremble and shake;
The great assembly rejoices, all receiving benefit.
The Bhagavat has skillfully spoken of the fourteen kings;
Therefore I now bow down my head in reverence."