大通方廣懺悔滅罪莊嚴成佛經 3.1

3.1

At that time, because Bodhisattva *Faith-Sign (Xinxiang), for the sake of all sentient beings and himself, inquired about the names of all Buddhas, Śākyamuni Buddha, having spoken of the Buddhas of the ten directions and three times, the twelve divisions of scriptures, and the great bodhisattva Saṅgha, wished to roar the great lion's roar. The lion's roar means definitive speech. Definitive speech means clearly knowing that the Tathāgata is ever-abiding and unceasing, and declaring that sentient beings all possess the buddhadhātu, so that the māras are terrified and the tīrthikas submit; therefore it is called the lion's roar. Having thus clearly expounded it, his tongue covered the three-thousand great thousandfold world, and all worlds shook in six ways. Shaking in six ways means: rising in the east and sinking in the west; rising in the west and sinking in the east; rising in the south and sinking in the north; rising in the north and sinking in the south; rising in the middle and sinking at the edges; rising at the edges and sinking in the middle. These are called the six ways of shaking. Furthermore, from the base of his tongue he emitted a great light. The great light shone universally. Shining universally means turning the impermanent into the permanent, turning the impure into the pure, turning suffering into joy, and turning ignorance into brilliance. At that time, in the places illuminated by the Buddha's light, mountains, forests, lands, rivers, great oceans, the Iron Ring Mountains, rivers, and all hells, high and low became level, and all were pure without any defilement, just like the Pure Adorned Full Moon World of the east.