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菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 2.36

菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 2.36

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2.36

爾時世尊復以神足現寂寞世界,使彼大眾皆悉知見,亦無言教苦、集、滅、道之名。何以故?彼土眾生皆是胎化利根人。佛復以神足現下方照光世界,視彼眾生稟受讀誦,經歷劫數乃成道果,知此眾生濕生、卵生是鈍根人。佛復以神足現不死剎土,使彼大眾知彼眾生不聞死名,知此眾生大慈誓願利根中勝根。佛復以神足現中夭剎土,使彼大眾皆悉知見,見彼眾生有中夭者,由彼眾生自造苦本,本壽極長今壽轉短。彼世界王名曰除憂,剝死人皮以用作鼓,百歲一打使彼眾生皆知死名,壽命轉減至于百歲,時有出者。

At that time, the Bhagavat again manifested the Quiescent World by his supernatural powers, causing that great assembly to fully know and see it; nor were there any spoken teachings with the names of suffering, origination, cessation, and path. Why is that? The sentient beings of that land are all individuals of sharp faculties of womb-birth and apparitional birth. The Buddha again manifested the Illumined World below by his supernatural powers, observing that those sentient beings receive, uphold, read, and recite [the teachings], only attaining the fruit of the path after passing through kalpas, knowing that these sentient beings of moisture-birth and egg-birth are individuals of dull faculties. The Buddha again manifested the Deathless Land by his supernatural powers, causing that great assembly to know that those sentient beings do not hear the name of death, knowing that these sentient beings of great compassion and vows are the supreme faculties among sharp faculties. The Buddha again manifested the Untimely-Death Land by his supernatural powers, causing that great assembly to fully know and see it; seeing that among those sentient beings there are those who die untimely because those sentient beings created the root of suffering themselves—their original lifespan was extremely long, but now their lifespan has gradually shortened. The king of that world is named Sorrow-Remover; he strips the skin of dead men to make drums, striking them once every hundred years to make those sentient beings all know the name of death, their lifespan gradually decreasing down to one hundred years, at which time there are those who transcend [it].

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