仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經 1.9

1.9

At one time, the Buddha dwelt at Gṛdhrakūṭaparvata in Rājagṛha, together with a great assembly of eighteen hundred bhikṣus—all of them arhats, whose contaminants were exhausted, free from afflictions, their minds well liberated, their wisdom well liberated, having accomplished what was to be done through the nine knowledges and the ten knowledges, having observed the reality of the three designations and the contemplation of the three gates of liberation, fully accomplished in conditioned and unconditioned merits; furthermore, with an assembly of eight hundred bhikṣuṇīs, all arhats; furthermore, with immeasurable and countless bodhisattva mahāsattvas—whose real wisdom was equal, having forever severed the hindrances of delusion, who skillfully generated great practices and vows through expedients, benefiting sentient beings through the four means of embrace, universally covering all through the four immeasurables, perceptive and clear in the three knowledges, having attained the five supernormal knowledges, cultivating the boundless bodhipakṣadharmas, excelling in crafts and arts surpassing all worldly arts, deeply entering into dependent origination, emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness, displaying inestimable entries and exits from nirodhasamāpatti, subduing the mara-adversaries, doubly illuminating the two truths, universally seeing with the dharma-eye to know the faculties of sentient beings, expounding without fear through the four unimpeded knowledges, resounding the Dharma sound like thunder through the ten powers and marvelous wisdom, and being close to the unequalled vajrasamādhi—completely endowed with merits such as these; furthermore, with immeasurable assemblies of upāsakas and upāsikās, all having seen the noble truths; furthermore, with immeasurable [practitioners] cultivating the practices of the seven worthies, foundations of mindfulness, right diligences, bases of supernormal power, spiritual faculties, spiritual powers, eight spheres of mastery, ten totalities, and the sixteen mental practices that progress to the direct realization of the truths; furthermore, with the sixteen great kings—King Prasenajit and others—each together with several tens of millions of attendants; furthermore, with the kings of the six heavens of desire—Śakra Devānām Indra and others—together with their attendants, immeasurable devaputras; the great Brahmā kings of the four dhyānas of the form realm, also together with their attendants, immeasurable devaputras; immeasurable transformed sentient beings of the various destinies—asuras and others—together with various attendants. Furthermore, pure lands of the ten directions were manifested, displaying hundreds of kotis of lion thrones upon which Buddhas sat, widely proclaiming the Dharma essentials. Before each throne a single flower manifested; these hundreds of kotis of flowers were adorned with manifold jewels. Upon each flower, there were again immeasurable transformed Buddhas and immeasurable bodhisattvas, with the fourfold assemblies and the eight classes [of beings] all being immeasurable. Among them, each Buddha expounded the Prajñāpāramitā, spreading and permeating continuously throughout the Buddha lands of the ten directions, as numerous as the sands of the Ganges. The great assemblies that came were like this, each bowing to the Buddha's feet and withdrawing to sit on one side.