淨名經集解關中疏 1.148
English (machine translation) 1.148
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1.148
"Now we offer to the World-Honoured One this slight canopy; / Within it is manifested our three-thousandfold world, / The palaces where the devas, dragons, and spirits dwell, / The gandharvas and so forth, as well as the yakṣas, / All seeing whatever exists in the world. / The Ten Powers compassionately manifested this transformation; / The multitude, beholding this rare event, all praise the Buddha. / Now I bow my head to the Honoured One of the Three Realms." Below, these four verses praise the preceding offering of the canopy and so forth: the three lines 'offer this slight canopy' and so forth are the offering of the canopy; 'within it is manifested' and so forth is the gathering together of the canopies; 'the multitude, beholding' and so forth is the praise of the assembly. Sengzhao says: "'Slight' means small. What was offered was extremely slight; what was seen was extremely vast. This was manifested by the Tathāgata's compassionate pity. 'Ten Powers' is merely another name for the Tathāgata."
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