佛說佛名經 18

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18.1

"Namo Obstacle-Free Buddha Moon Buddha; / Namo Unpraising World-Surpassing Buddha; / Namo Dharma King Decided Buddha; / Namo Constellation Precious Cloud King Buddha; / Namo Asita Precious Victor Buddha; / Namo Sovereign Dharma Practice Buddha; / Namo Earth-Springing Renown Buddha; / Namo Boundless Victorious Jewel Renown Buddha; / Namo Renowned Wisdom Swiftness King Buddha; / Namo Renowned Tree Kanaka King Buddha; / Namo Renowned Increasing Wisdom Buddha; / Namo Renowned Dharma Flower Penetrating Virtue Buddha; / Namo Renowned Pleasant Illumination Light Vigour Penetrating Collection Buddha; / Namo Renowned Illuminating Contemplation Buddha King Buddha; / Namo Renowned Non-Clinging to Evil Victor Buddha; / Namo Renowned Wisdom Exhausting Heaven Buddha; / Namo Renowned Exquisite Dharma Buddha; / Namo Renowned Great Wisdom Sound Wisdom Buddha; / Namo Renowned Seeing All Worlds Without Fear Buddha; / Namo Renowned Seeing Fearlessness Buddha; / Namo Renowned Sound Departing Buddha; / Namo Tathāgata Practice Measureless King Buddha.

18.2

"Furthermore, Śāriputra, to the present Buddhas of the western direction you all should pay homage with single-minded reverence:

18.3

"Namo Primal Light Flower Mind Illumination Buddha; / Namo Wondrous Sound Cultivation Roar Buddha; / Namo Abiding in Victorious Wisdom Renown Buddha; / Namo Universal Vision Buddha; / Namo Producing Great Compassion Mind Flower Light Buddha; / Namo Dharma Practice Lamp-Lighter Buddha; / Namo Universal Victor Buddha; / Namo Wisdom Roar Renowned King Buddha; / Namo Brahmā Sound Joyful Roar Buddha; / Namo Thousand Eyes Buddha; / Namo Ocean Fragrance Flame Buddha; / Namo Thousand Moons Sovereign Treasury Buddha; / Namo Dharma Swift Joyful Practice Buddha; / Namo Body Worthy Distant Light Buddha; / Namo Lion Broad Eyes Buddha; / Namo Ten Powers Light Victor Buddha; / Namo Wisdom Arrival Buddha; / Namo Boundless Vigour Victorious Face Buddha; / Namo Great Victor Accomplishing Dharma Buddha; / Namo Non-Empty Vision Buddha; / Namo Inexhaustible Form Buddha; / Namo Contemplating Dharma Wisdom Buddha; / Namo Unhindered King Buddha; / Namo Boundless Virtue Buddha; / Namo Wisdom Examining Dharma Buddha; / Namo All Roots of Goodness Bodhi Path Buddha; / Namo Unobstructed Vigour Good Reflection Swiftness King Buddha; / Namo Supreme Wisdom Victorious Well-Abiding Merit Buddha; / Namo Wisdom Fragrance Victor Buddha; / Namo Wisdom Victorious Vision Śikhin King Buddha; / Namo Wondrous Merit Wisdom Buddha; / Namo Sorrowless Dharma Flower Roar King Buddha; / Namo Dharma Purity Arrival Buddha; / Namo Surpassingly Supreme Merit Buddha; / Namo Opening Dharma Gate Treasury Buddha; / Namo Illuminating Dharma Same King Buddha; / Namo Power King Well-Abiding Dharma Buddha; / Namo Good Discrimination Power Attainment Buddha; / Namo Boundless Gate Vision Buddha; / Namo Good Transformation Adornment Buddha; / Namo Dissimilar Vision Buddha; / Namo Free from Anger Merit King Buddha; / Namo Free from Defilement Recollection Victor Buddha; / Namo Great Power Prajñā Swiftness King Buddha; / Namo Dharma Mirror Image Buddha; / Namo Jianchali Accomplishment Buddha; / Namo All-Knowledge Merit Victor Buddha; / Namo Disliking Leaving Merit Buddha; / Namo Vigour Surpassing Vigour Sovereign Mountain Buddha; / Namo All Worlds Sovereign Bridge Victor Buddha; / Namo Manifesting Inexhaustible Virtue Buddha; / Namo Pure Precept Merit King Buddha; / Namo Flower Adornment Making Adornment Buddha; / Namo Solitary King Buddha; / Namo Attaining Great Penetration Vow Power Buddha; / Namo Roaring Sound Swift Vigour Buddha; / Namo Victorious Body Nārāyaṇa Wisdom Buddha; / Namo Nārāyaṇa Buddha; / Namo Precious Light Anila Victor Buddha; / Namo Precious Ocean Flame Buddha; / Namo Great Ocean Meru Victor King Buddha; / Namo Primally Unturbid Heavenly King Buddha; / Namo Non-Abiding in Arising and Cessation Victorious Merit King Buddha; / Namo Empty Space Delightful Explanation Unhindered Renown Buddha; / Namo Victorious Wisdom Buddha; / Namo Incomparable Treasury Renown Buddha; / Namo Heavenly Sovereign Brahmā Predominant Buddha; / Namo Good Practice Vision King Buddha; / Namo Diverse Practice King Buddha; / Namo Rocana Victorious Merit Buddha; / Namo Sovereign Buddha; / Namo Abiding Flower Buddha; / Namo Wisdom Roots of Goodness Accomplished Nature Buddha; / Namo Unimpeded Wisdom Accomplishment Buddha; / Namo Good Decision Dharma Buddha; / Namo Dharma Adornment Contemplation Delightful Explanation Renown Buddha; / Namo Two Jewels Lamp-Lighter Buddha; / Namo Mahā-Reflection Treasury Buddha; / Namo Inconceivable King Buddha; / Namo Sovereign Recollection Buddha; / Namo Lion Chest Treasury Buddha; / Namo Wisdom King Adornment Buddha; / Namo Sovereign Faculty Buddha; / Namo Free from Sound Eye Buddha; / Namo Good Fragrance Buddha; / Namo Undefiled Buddha; / Namo Padma Buddha; / Namo Dharmakāya Buddha; / Namo Vast Precept King Buddha; / Namo Mind Good Practice Renown Buddha; / Namo Dharma Sovereign Buddha; / Namo Wish-Fulfilling Penetration Contemplation Treasury Buddha; / Namo Lamp-Lighter Greed King Buddha; / Namo Merit Victorious Field Buddha; / Namo Worldly Intent Accomplishing Good Dharmas Buddha; / Namo Good Contemplation Buddha Dharma Victor Buddha.

18.4

"Furthermore, Śāriputra, to the present Buddhas of the northern direction you all should pay namas with a single mind.

18.5

Namo First Supreme Treasury Mountain Buddha; namo Radiating Light Buddha; namo Boundless Wisdom Buddha; namo Dragon Flower Buddha; namo All Dragons' Dauntless Courage Buddha; namo Merit Adornment Buddha; namo Dharma World Mirror-Image Buddha; namo Subduing All Māras Buddha; namo Supreme Vatsa Mountain Buddha; namo Dharma Advent King Buddha; namo Buddha-Transformation Accomplishment Buddha; namo Universally Adorned Tree-Conduct Victor Buddha; namo Ratnakūṭa Accomplishment Buddha; namo All-Accomplishing Renown Buddha; namo Three Times Wisdom Victor Buddha; namo Supreme Majesty Well-Abiding Buddha; namo Diverse Vows Light Buddha; namo Non-retrogressing Hundred-Victory Light Buddha; namo Boundless Wisdom Buddha; namo Dragon Flower Virtue Buddha; namo Fēn'ànluó Supreme Buddha; namo Depriving of All Wrong Views Buddha; namo Attaining the Buddha Eye-Wheel Buddha; namo Attaining All Buddha-Wisdom Buddha; namo Great Compassion Rescuing Victor Buddha; namo Lion Wisdom Bridge Buddha; namo Abiding in Reality King Buddha; namo All Wholesome Roots and Merits Dharma Accomplishment Buddha; namo Great Stainless Wisdom Buddha; namo Wisdom Renown King Buddha; namo Buddha-Dharma Padma Buddha; namo Raising All Marks Buddha; namo Accordant with All Intentions Dharma Cloud Buddha; namo Fulfilling Diligence Jewel Wisdom Buddha; namo Great Virūḍhaka Buddha; namo Supreme Light Buddha; namo Immovable Dharma Wisdom Light Buddha; namo Candana Cloud King Buddha; namo Undefiled Padma Voice Buddha; namo Dharma Sovereign Voice King Buddha; namo Stainless Kalpa Buddha; namo Discriminating Dharma Unimpeded Flower Renown Buddha; namo Buddha-Eye Stainless Diligence Sovereign Wheel Buddha; namo Wisdom Mastery Renown Buddha; namo Boundless Doubt Buddha; namo Boundless Wisdom Dauntless Unimpeded Mind Buddha; namo Vast Majestic Virtue Sovereign King Buddha; namo Desiring the Dharma-Path Well-Abiding Buddha; namo Generating All Wisdom Buddha; namo Subduing Māra Powers Firm Mind Buddha; namo Diligence Sovereign Jewel King Buddha; namo Majestic Virtue Treasury Buddha; namo Seeing Benefit All Rejoicing Buddha; namo Great Striding Buddha-King Buddha; namo Diverse Suns Buddha; namo Voice-Portion Wondrous Jewel Roar Buddha; namo Stainless Dharma King Buddha; namo Non-retrogressing Diligence Manifestation Buddha; namo Adorning Buddha-Lands King Buddha; namo Wisdom Root Flower Buddha; namo Inconceivable Nirvāṇa Buddha; namo All Dragons Mani Treasury Buddha; namo Delighting in Dharma Mastery Buddha; namo Attaining Dharma Marks Mastery Buddha; namo Boundless Jewel Merit Treasury Buddha; namo Pure Flower Mountain Buddha; namo Great Dharma King Kusuma Victor Buddha; namo All Exhaustible and Inexhaustible Treasury Buddha; namo Flower Meru Goodness Buddha; namo Space Wisdom Mountain Buddha; namo Wisdom Power King Buddha; namo Unimpeded Voice Wisdom Buddha; namo Boundless Buddha Voice Treasury Buddha; namo Wisdom King Inexhaustible Renown Buddha; namo Mind Wisdom Dauntless King Buddha; namo Inherent Purity Wisdom Buddha; namo Wisdom Sovereign Dharma King Buddha; namo Right View Buddha; namo Speech View Buddha; namo Fulfilling Dharma Incense View Buddha; namo Dragon Moon Buddha; namo Indra Mountain Unimpeded King Buddha; namo Jewel Sovereign Śāla King Buddha; namo Seeing All Sentient Beings Buddha; namo Water Sustenance Light King Buddha; namo Awakening to All Dharmas Buddha; namo Wisdom Jewel Dharma Victor Buddha; namo Diligence Sovereign Mind Dharma Treasury Buddha; namo Unimpeded Mountain Buddha; namo Stainless Garland Buddha; namo Radiating Light Illumination Buddha; namo Blaze Sovereign Treasury Buddha; namo Voice-Portion Wondrous Awakening Roar Buddha; namo Meru Power Sovereign Treasury Buddha; namo Diligence Sovereign Meru Tranquility Sovereign Buddha; namo Firm Fearlessness Merit Buddha; namo Firm Courage Jewel Buddha; namo Firm Courage Tranquil King Buddha; namo Subduing Darkness Meru Mountain King Buddha; namo Supreme Puruṣa Puṇḍarīka Buddha; namo Noble Voice Treasury Buddha; namo Samantabhadra Puṇḍarīka Buddha; namo Dharma-Equality Dharmakāya Buddha; namo Difficult to Conquer Buddha; namo Difficult to Conceive Buddha; namo Immovable Buddha; namo Wondrous Voice Buddha; namo Supreme Voice Buddha; namo Śāla Dauntless Buddha; namo Jewel Victor Buddha; namo Lovely to Behold Buddha; namo Dīpaṃkara Buddha; namo Sumeru Kalpa Buddha; namo Sun Light Buddha; namo Moon Light Buddha; namo Dharmadhātu Buddha; namo King of Medicinal Trees Buddha; namo Constellation Buddha; namo Supreme Awakening Buddha; namo Bestowing Prediction Buddha; namo Creating Love Buddha; namo Creating Fearlessness Buddha; namo Flower Jewel Candana Buddha; namo Dragon Virtue Buddha; namo Rocana Buddha; namo Stainless Buddha; namo Free from Afflictions Buddha; namo Well-Come Buddha; namo Golden-Hued Buddha; namo Rootless Buddha; namo Sumeru Lamp Buddha; namo Delightful-to-Behold Light Buddha; namo Able to Create Light Buddha; namo Completely Free of Turbidity Buddha; namo Undefiled Buddha; namo Well-Purified Buddha; namo Liberated Buddha; namo Flower Tree Buddha; namo Dharmatā Buddha; namo Well-Guarded Voice Buddha; namo Attained Mind Buddha; namo Severing Craving Buddha; namo Internal and External Buddha; namo Accomplished Banner Buddha; namo Brahma Voice Buddha; namo Wondrous Voice Buddha; namo Supreme Voice Buddha; namo Vajra Buddha; namo Great Penetration Buddha; namo Fearless Buddha; namo Free from All Afflictions Buddha; namo Free from Fear Buddha; namo Free from Timidity Buddha; namo Immovable Buddha; namo Delighting in Liberation Buddha; namo Accomplished Buddha; namo Most Honoured among Two-Footed Beings Buddha; namo All-Knowledge Buddha; namo Marks-Adorned Buddha; namo Immeasurable Speech Buddha; namo Fearless Speech Buddha; namo Constantly Congruous Speech Buddha; namo Brahma Assembly Congruous Buddha; namo Thirty Gods Assembly Congruous Buddha; namo Golden Characters Buddha; namo Relinquishing Fetters Buddha; namo Śāla Flower Buddha; namo Golden Flower Buddha; namo Kumuda Marks Buddha; namo Supreme Crest Buddha; namo All-Penetrating Wisdom Buddha; namo Attained to the Other Shore of All Dharmas Buddha; namo Uncharacterizable Buddha; namo Well-Abiding Buddha; namo Adorned Marks Buddha; namo Pure Sentient Beings Buddha; namo Constant Wisdom Buddha; namo Wondrously Tranquil Buddha; namo Śābhura Dauntless Buddha; namo Ultimate Great Compassion Buddha; namo Firm in Accomplishment Buddha; namo Constantly Smiling Buddha; namo Free from Turbidity Buddha; namo Hundred Marks Merit Buddha; namo In Accordance Buddha; namo Supreme Treasury Buddha; namo Prajñā Banner Buddha; namo Jewel Prajñā Ultimate Buddha; namo Fulfilling the Mind Buddha; namo Regarder of the World Sovereign King Buddha; namo Great Blaze Accumulation Buddha; namo Supreme Merit Majestic Virtue Buddha; namo Brahma Supreme Deva Buddha; namo Inner Jewel Buddha; namo Sambodhi Banner Buddha; namo Supreme Lamp Buddha; namo Good Choice Vow Transcending Supreme Śāla King Buddha; namo Stainless Light Buddha; namo Illuminating Darkness Buddha; namo Fearless Contemplation Buddha; namo Joyful Eloquence Adornment Buddha; namo Stainless Moon Ketu Renown Buddha; namo Flower Adornment Light-Maker Buddha; namo Fire Dauntless Buddha; namo Jewel Superior Buddha; namo Fearless Wisdom Contemplation Buddha; namo Lion's Swift Navel Buddha; namo Free from All Terror and Horripilation Renowned Light Buddha; namo Kanaka King Light Majestic Virtue Buddha; namo Avalokiteśvara Buddha; namo Nimi Buddha; namo Jewel Fire Buddha; namo Jewel Mountain Buddha; namo Sovereign Buddha; namo Jewel Diligence Sun-Moon Light Adornment Majestic Virtue Sagacious Voice King Buddha; namo Initial Thought of Awakening Contemplating All Doubts and Severing Afflictions Buddha; namo Darkness-Severing Samādhi Supreme King Buddha; namo Jewel Flame Buddha; namo Fire Accumulation Buddha; namo Candana Fragrance Buddha; namo Space Equanimity Buddha; namo Veneration Sovereign Buddha; namo Immovable Action Buddha; namo Joyful Buddha; namo Free from Fear Buddha; namo Well-Purified Victor Buddha; namo Light King Buddha; namo Invincible Banner Buddha; namo Conquering All Buddha; namo Hearing the Sound Victor Buddha; namo Good Arms Buddha; namo Jewel Lofty Buddha; namo Good Understanding Buddha; namo Moon Lofty Buddha; namo Well-Beheld Buddha; namo Illuminating the Virtuous Leader Victor Buddha; namo Attained to Nobility Buddha; namo Accomplishing All Deeds Buddha; namo Mountain Peak Buddha; namo Universal Jewel Canopy Adornment Buddha; namo Vast Light King Buddha; namo Jewel Canopy Joy Buddha; namo Purifying All Vows Majestic Virtue Supreme King Buddha; namo Illuminating the Virtuous Victor Buddha; namo Joyful Sun Buddha; namo Samantabhadra Buddha; namo Virtue King Light Buddha; namo Universal Light Buddha; namo Universal Incense Buddha; namo Well-Purified Buddha; namo Dharma Treasury Buddha; namo Foremost Leader Buddha; namo Bodhi Flower Buddha; namo Moon Brightness Buddha; namo Sun Light Buddha; namo Flower Color King Buddha; namo Water Moon Light Buddha; namo Dispelling Doubts and Darkness Buddha; namo Crossing the Hindrances' Conduct Buddha; namo Pure Faith Buddha; namo Good Constellation Buddha; namo Majestic Spirit Buddha; namo Dharma Wisdom Buddha; namo Luan-Bird Voice Buddha; namo Lion Voice Buddha; namo Dragon Voice Buddha; namo Dwelling in the World Buddha; namo Sovereign Buddha; namo Amitāyus Buddha; namo Immeasurable Light Buddha; namo Boundless Light Buddha; namo Unimpeded Light Buddha; namo Incomparable Light Buddha; namo Flame King Light Buddha; namo Pure Light Buddha; namo Joyful Light Buddha; namo Wisdom Light Buddha; namo Unbroken Light Buddha; namo Inconceivable Light Buddha; namo Ineffable Light Buddha; namo Light Surpassing the Sun and Moon Buddha; namo Marks and Signs Purple-Golden Buddha; namo Far-Illuminating Buddha; namo Jewel Treasury Buddha; namo Immeasurable Voice Buddha; namo Universally Victorious Buddha; namo Wisdom Roar Renown King Buddha.

18.6

Next, pay reverence to the great treasury Dharma-wheel of the twelve-part sacred scriptures.

18.7

Reverently pay homage to all great bodhisattva-mahāsattvas of the ten directions.

18.8

"Namo Guṇalakṣaṇālaṅkāra Bodhisattva; Namo Parvatalakṣaṇāhataghoṣa Bodhisattva; Namo Suvarṇakeyūraprabhāsa Bodhisattva; Namo Sarvacaryāviśuddha Bodhisattva; Namo Samādhivikrīḍita Bodhisattva; Namo Apratihata-citta Bodhisattva; Namo Prabhālaṅkāra Bodhisattva; Namo Apratihata-samādhi Bodhisattva; Namo Vidyutprāpta Bodhisattva; Namo Mahāprajña Bodhisattva; Namo Bhūyobhāsa Bodhisattva; Namo Prabhāvṛta Bodhisattva; Namo Puṣpaprabha Bodhisattva; Namo Citraprabha Bodhisattva; Namo Nāgaprabha Bodhisattva; Namo Samaprabha Bodhisattva; Namo Tārakāprabha Bodhisattva; Namo Sahasrasūrya Bodhisattva; Namo Madhyāhna-sūrya Bodhisattva; Namo Pratiṣṭhita Bodhisattva; Namo Vṛkṣarāja Bodhisattva; Namo Nāgadeva Bodhisattva; Namo Bhūmicala Bodhisattva; Namo Pratibhānahastaghoṣaprāpta Bodhisattva; Namo Samantavipula Bodhisattva; Namo Vīryāvatāra Bodhisattva; Namo Kṣīṇavīrya Bodhisattva; Namo Apramuktapraharṣa Bodhisattva; Namo Uttamavīrya Bodhisattva; Namo Abhyāsavīrya Bodhisattva; Namo Ekayānatāraṇa Bodhisattva; Namo Cāritravīrya Bodhisattva; Namo Karuṇāvīrya Bodhisattva; Namo Viśuddhājīvavīrya Bodhisattva; Namo Paramasatyavīrya Bodhisattva; Namo Dṛḍhavīrya Bodhisattva; Namo Devaguṇagarbha Bodhisattva; Namo Āhatasuvarṇamatisāra Bodhisattva; Namo Siṃhadhvaja Bodhisattva; Namo Siṃhasthita Bodhisattva.

18.9

"Namas to all such immeasurable and boundless great bodhisattva-mahāsattvas of the worlds of the ten directions.

18.10

"Reverently I pay homage to all the worthy and noble ones among the śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas.

18.11

"Having paid homage to the Triratna, next I perform kṣamā.

18.12

"All of us together right now have tranquil bodies and minds, free of deceit and free of hindrances. This is precisely the time to give rise to good and extinguish evil. We should further each undertake four kinds of contemplative practice to serve as preliminary skillful means for extinguishing sins. What are the four? First, contemplating causes and conditions; second, contemplating karmic retributions; third, contemplating my own body; fourth, contemplating the Tathāgata's body.

18.13

"First, contemplating causes and conditions means knowing that these sins of mine rely upon ignorance and improper reflection; lacking the power of correct contemplation, I did not recognize their faults and remained far removed from good friends, the buddhas, and the bodhisattvas. Following after the paths of Māra, I walked along evil and perilous tracks, like a fish swallowing a hook unaware of its peril, like a silkworm spinning a cocoon tangling and binding itself, like a moth darting into a fire burning and consuming itself. Due to these causes and conditions, I have been unable to emerge on my own.

18.14

"Second, contemplating karmic retributions means that for all bad and unwholesome karma, its painful retributions through transmigration in the three times are endless. Sinking in the boundless great ocean of long night, one is devoured by the rākṣasas of the kleśas; future births and deaths are dark and without shore. Even if one's retribution were to be that of a wheel-turning sage king ruling the four continents, flying at will and equipped with the seven treasures, after life ends one cannot escape death and falling into the evil destinies. The retribution of the four formless [realms] is the most exalted in the tridhātu, yet when one's merit is exhausted, one returns to being a worm inside an ox's head. How much more so for all others who have no merit, who are furthermore indolent and do not diligently practice kṣamā! This is also like embracing a stone and sinking into an abyss: seeking emergence is truly difficult.

18.15

"Third, contemplating my own body means that although it possesses the nature of correct cause and spiritual awakening, it is covered and obscured by the dark thickets of the kleśas, and without the power of the revealing cause, it cannot become manifest. I must now give rise to a superior resolve to shatter the heavy hindrances of ignorance and inversion, sever and eradicate the false and painful causes of birth and death, reveal and manifest the Tathāgata's great, luminous, awakening wisdom, and establish the unexcelled, wondrous fruit of nirvāṇa.

18.16

"Fourth, contemplating the Tathāgata's body means that it is unconditioned, tranquil, and illuminating; it is free of the four propositions and cut off from the hundred negations; it is fully endowed with all virtues and eternally abides in serenity. Although as a skillful means he enters extinction, his compassionate rescue has never ceased for a single moment. Giving rise to such a mind may truly be called a fine ford for extinguishing sins and an essential practice for eliminating hindrances. Therefore, we disciples today whole-heartedly bow our heads and pay homage to the Buddhas.

18.17

"Namo Jinaghoṣa Buddha of the eastern direction; Namo Sumerūpama Buddha of the southern direction; Namo Mahāraśmipuṣpābhijña Buddha of the western direction; Namo Bodhiprabhāsa Buddha of the northern direction; Namo Padmapuṣpavikāsabalasaṃpanna Buddha of the south-eastern direction; Namo Cīvarasantuṣṭa Buddha of the south-western direction; Namo Pravrajyāpramodacārin Buddha of the north-western direction; Namo Ratnacchatrātikrāntaprabha Buddha of the north-eastern direction; Namo Dūragataghoṣayaśas Buddha of the nadir; Namo Anabhilāpyavijaya Buddha of the zenith.

18.18

"Namas to all the Triratna throughout empty space across the ten directions.

18.19

"We disciples, from anādikāla until the present day, have nurtured our kleśas so that they grow daily deeper, daily thicker, daily more profuse, and daily more flourishing, veiling the eye of wisdom so that it sees nothing; we have severed the various goods so that they cannot continue, raising hindrances; the affliction-hindrance of being unable to see the Buddhas, unable to hear the true Dharma, and unable to meet the noble Saṅgha; the affliction-hindrance of failing to perceive wholesome and unwholesome karmic actions across all past and future worlds; the affliction-hindrance of receiving noble retributions among humans and devas; the affliction-hindrance of taking birth in the dhyāna bliss of the form and formless realms; the affliction-hindrance of failing to attain unimpeded supernormal powers to soar, vanish, appear, and travel everywhere to the pure lands of the Buddhas of the ten directions to hear the Dharma.

18.20

"The affliction-hindrances in learning ānāpāna, counting the breath, and the contemplation of impurity; the affliction-hindrances in learning benevolence, compassion, joy, and equanimity and their causes and conditions; the affliction-hindrances in learning the meanings of the seven skillful means and three contemplations; the affliction-hindrances in learning the four stations of mindfulness, heat, summit, and patience; the affliction-hindrances in learning the supreme mundane dharmas of hearing, contemplation, and cultivation; the affliction-hindrances in learning the understanding of emptiness, equality, and the middle path; the affliction-hindrances in learning the eightfold noble path through manifesting marks; the affliction-hindrances in learning the seven limbs of awakening without manifesting marks; the affliction-hindrances in learning the contemplation of causes and conditions regarding the limbs of enlightenment.

18.21

"The affliction-hindrances in learning the eight liberations and nine emptinesses; the affliction-hindrances in learning the ten knowledges and samādhis; the affliction-hindrances in learning the three masteries, six supernormal powers, and four unhindered knowledges; the affliction-hindrances in learning the six pāramitās and four immeasurables; the affliction-hindrances in learning the four means of embracing to broadly transform [beings]; the affliction-hindrances in learning the Mahāyāna mind and four great vows; the affliction-hindrances in learning the ten illuminations and ten practices; the affliction-hindrances in learning the ten transfers of merit and ten vows.

18.22

"The affliction-hindrances of clear understanding in the first bhūmi, second bhūmi, third bhūmi, and fourth bhūmi; the affliction-hindrances of various knowledges and views in the fifth bhūmi, sixth bhūmi, and seventh bhūmi; the affliction-hindrances in learning dual illumination in the eighth bhūmi, ninth bhūmi, and tenth bhūmi; and thus even up to the superior affliction-hindrances that hinder the learning of the Buddha fruit and the millions of asaṃkhyeyas of practices—such hindrances to practice are boundless and infinite. We disciples today with utmost sincerity and fervent supplication turn to the Buddhas, the honored Dharma, and the noble Saṅgha of the ten directions, feeling shame and confessing with kṣamā, wishing that they may all be eradicated.

18.23

"May it be that by relying on this kṣamā, all affliction-hindrances that obstruct all practices will be eliminated forever without remainder. May we disciples in every place receive birth at will, unswayed by binding karma; through supernormal power as we wish, may we travel everywhere across the ten directions in a single instant, purifying the Buddha lands and gathering and transforming sentient beings; in the profound realms of all dhyānas and all knowledges and views, may we be unimpeded; may our minds be able to encompass all dharmas, delighting in explaining them without end yet without clinging or defilement; may we attain mastery of mind, mastery of dharmas, mastery of wisdom, and mastery of skillful means; and may these kleśas and habits of ignorance be severed forever, never to continue again, so that the undefiled noble path shines brightly like the sun."

18.24

Mahāyāna Puṇḍarīka Sūtra on Baoda's Inquiries on the Retributions of Śramaṇas

18.25

A short while before, Baoda entered a Hell of Raining Fire. What is called the Hell of Raining Fire? That hell is eight thousand yojanas in length and breadth, enclosed all around by iron walls, with blazing fires flaring up together. Below are iron blades with their edges pointing straight upward. From the four corners of that citadel winds arise and blow upon the citadel, causing the citadel's fire to flare furiously. At the four corners are copper dogs whose fangs stick out upward and whose mouths and eyes emit fire; they are swift as the wind. From the mouths of the copper dogs arise clouds, dense and oppressive; from their noses water shoots out like rain from the heavens, and within those drops flames arise together. From the air fire falls like chariot wheels; striking the bodies of the sinners, their entire bodies catch fire and burn. Through a single day and night they endure immeasurable punishments, dying a thousand times and being born a thousand times, dying ten thousand times and being born ten thousand times.

18.26

Baoda asked the horse-headed rākṣasa, "What deeds did these śramaṇas commit to suffer such torment?"

18.27

"The horse-headed rākṣasa replied, 'These śramaṇas received the pure precepts of the Buddha but did not guard their deportment. Although they possessed kāṣāyas, they refused to wear them, entering villages and towns with bare and exposed bodies, just like dried withered trees devoid of luster. If they were on Buddha grounds or saṅgha grounds, it was also like this. The devas called out: "Mad thief bhikṣus have entered the people's villages!" Due to these causes and conditions, they have fallen into this hell. Emerging from this hell, they will constantly become animals throughout thousands of myriads of kalpas.'"

18.28

When Baoda heard this, he wept sorrowfully and departed.

18.29

Sūtra on the Names of the Buddhas, Fascicle Eighteen

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