佛說佛名經 28

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28.1

"Namo Samantaprabha Buddha; namo Guṇabahuratnasāgararāja Buddha; namo Amoghaguṇa Buddha; namo Sarvatrābhāsa Buddha; namo Suvimaladundubhisvara Buddha; namo Dharmavaśavartin Buddha; namo Samantadṛś Buddha; namo Mahājvālāskandha Buddha; namo Prabhāvaketu Buddha; namo Jñānaketu Buddha; namo Sālagarbha Buddha; namo Ratnaśikhin Buddha; namo Padmagarbha Buddha; namo Sarvājita Buddha; namo Sāgara Buddha; namo Padmagarbha Buddha; namo Sālarājarāja Buddha; namo Kusumaviśuddha Buddha; namo Yaśovirājita Buddha; namo Satyadarśin Buddha; namo Jñānameru Buddha; namo Nāgatejas Buddha; namo Jinacārin Buddha; namo Nakṣatra Buddha; namo Mahāvyūha Buddha; namo Prabhārāja Buddha; namo Śāktiman Buddha; namo Vaśavartirāja Buddha; namo Sūryānana Buddha; namo Sumanas Buddha; namo Nāgajina Buddha; namo Puṣya Buddha; namo Bhaiṣajyarāja Buddha; namo Siṃhagiri Buddha; namo Dhāraṇījinaguṇa Buddha; namo Amṛtapa Buddha; namo Jvālotsṛṣṭa Buddha; namo Varagiri Buddha; namo Lokarakṣāpūjita Buddha; namo Tagaraśikhin Buddha; namo Durjaya Buddha; namo Mahāpradīpa Buddha; namo Padmottara Buddha; namo Dharmadhvaja Buddha; namo Dīpaṃkara Buddha; namo Durjayajñāna Buddha; namo Durmanāpya Buddha; namo Satyasvara Buddha; namo Mañjusvara Buddha; namo Sālavikrama Buddha; namo Ratnārcis Buddha; namo Priyadarśana Buddha; namo Merukalpa Buddha; namo Candanaprabha Buddha; namo Sūryaprabha Buddha; namo Bhaiṣajyavṛkṣajina Buddha; namo Viśuddhabuddhi Buddha; namo Vyākaraṇa Buddha; namo Priyakara Buddha; namo Abhayaṃkara Buddha; namo Padmaratnagandha Buddha; namo Jinaguṇa Buddha; namo Vimala Buddha; namo Viśuddhābhāsa Buddha; namo Niḥkleśa Buddha; namo Svāgata Buddha; namo Suprabha Buddha; namo Suvarṇa Buddha; namo Prabhākara Buddha; namo Viśuddha Buddha; namo Vimuktalābhin Buddha; namo Kalaviṅkasvara Buddha; namo Dharmaprada Buddha; namo Sudvāra-rakṣita Buddha; namo Labdhābhiprāya Buddha; namo Vigatapriya Buddha; namo Ajātaratna Buddha; namo Suguptendriya Buddha; namo Brahmasvara Buddha; namo Jinaghoṣa Buddha; namo Mañjughoṣa Buddha; namo Mahāmati Buddha; namo Nirāvilā Buddha; namo Akṣobhya Buddha; namo Vimuktirata Buddha; namo Jinadvipadottama Buddha; namo Sarvaguṇavyūhasampanna Buddha; namo Lakṣaṇānuvyañjanavyūha Buddha; namo Kumudavāda Buddha; namo Durdharṣavāc Buddha; namo Sadāyuktasamprayogavāc Buddha; namo Brahmasvarakṣemakara Buddha; namo Sālapuṣpa Buddha; namo Hemasūtraśākhāpuṣpa Buddha; namo Kumudākara Buddha; namo Varacūḍa Buddha; namo Mahāmuni Buddha; namo Sarvadharmapāramita Buddha; namo Asaṅga Buddha; namo Avikṣiptacitta Buddha; namo Hāṭakavarṇa Buddha; namo Praśamaprāpta Buddha; namo Śārdūlavikrānta Buddha; namo Viśuddhahasta Buddha; namo Sadāgata Buddha; namo Atyantaniṣpannamahākāruṇika Buddha; namo Dṛḍhasiddhi Buddha; namo Sadācaritaprāpta Buddha; namo Raṇāpeta Buddha; namo Viśuddhaguṇalakṣaṇa Buddha; namo Arodanira Buddha; namo Jinagarbha Buddha; namo Prajñāsama Buddha; namo Prajñāratnaniṣṭha Buddha; namo Saṃpūrṇamanoratha Buddha; namo Lokeśvararāja Buddha; namo Amitāyus Buddha; namo Mahājvālāsaṃcaya Buddha; namo Anantaratna Buddha; namo Viśuddhadevendrajina Buddha; namo Antarbahiḥśuddha Buddha; namo Śāntendriya Buddha; namo Uttamadīpa Buddha; namo Acintyapranihitaniṣpanna-sālarāja Buddha; namo Siṃhamati Buddha; namo Vinayanabala Buddha; namo Dhāraṇīśīghragati Buddha; namo Prabhotsṛṣṭarāja Buddha; namo Vitihagarjita Buddha; namo Asmṛtisaṃbodhidharmarāja Buddha; namo Buddhakṣetravyūhakāya Buddha; namo Jñānamūlapuṣpadhvaja Buddha; namo Nirmāṇakīrti Buddha; namo Sarvarūpamaṇigarbha Buddha; namo Dharmagañjavaśavartin Buddha; namo Dharmopahāravāra Buddha; namo Anantaratnaguṇākara Buddha; namo Vimalapuṣpasvara Buddha; namo Mahādharmarājakusumottama Buddha; namo Sarvākṣayagañja Buddha; namo Guṇaparvatākara Buddha; namo Nakṣatraparvatākara Buddha; namo Gaganasadṛśajñānagiri Buddha; namo Jñānabalendrarāja Buddha; namo Anāvaraṇasāgarānugatajñāna Buddha; namo Anantabodhiojasāgarākara Buddha; namo Jñānarājākṣayakīrti Buddha; namo Cittavikrīḍitarāja Buddha; namo Svaviśuddhajñāna Buddha; namo Jñānavaśavartidharmarāja Buddha; namo Vibhaktagati Buddha; namo Vaśavartidarśana Buddha; namo Gandhadarśanānugatadharmapūrṇa Buddha; namo Nāgacandra Buddha; namo Indrapāla-anāvaraṇarāja Buddha; namo Jñānaketu Buddha; namo Jñānadīpa Buddha; namo Mahāraśmiprabhāsa Buddha; namo Durjaya Buddha; namo Gocaraprabhāsa Buddha; namo Rajataketudhvajachattra Buddha; namo Tejavaśavartirāja Buddha; namo Bodhirāja Buddha; namo Ratnākara Buddha; namo Mahāsāgara Buddha; namo Daśabalavibhāga Buddha; namo Māradamana Buddha; namo Rāgadamana Buddha; namo Dveṣadamana Buddha; namo Mohadamana Buddha; namo Mānadamana Buddha; namo Krodhāmalo-damana Buddha; namo Dharmaviśuddhayasas Buddha; namo Karmottamayasas Buddha; namo Cintāmaṇiviśuddhayasas Buddha; namo Dānodbhūtayasa Buddha; namo Viśuddhaśīlodbhūtayasa Buddha; namo Kṣāntisiddhyudbhūtayasa Buddha; namo Vīryodbhūtayasa Buddha; namo Dhyānodbhūtayasa Buddha; namo Prajñodbhūtayasa Buddha; namo Acintyadānaniṣpanna Buddha; namo Acintyaśīlaniṣpanna Buddha; namo Acintyakṣāntiniṣpanna Buddha; namo Acintyavīryaniṣpanna Buddha; namo Acintyadhyānaniṣpanna Buddha; namo Acintyaprajñāniṣpanna Buddha; namo Caryāsiddhiyasa Buddha; namo Viśuddhadhāraṇīsiddhiyasa Buddha; namo Viśuddhadhāraṇīrūpayasa Buddha; namo Viśuddhadhāraṇīdānayasa Buddha; namo Śūnyatanairātmyavaśavartiyasa Buddha; namo Śūnyatācāravaśavartiyasa Buddha; namo Cakṣurdhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Śrotradhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Ghrāṇadhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Jihvādhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Kāyadhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Manodhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Rūpadhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Śabdadhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Gandhadhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Rasadhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Dharmadhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Spraṣṭavyadhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Pṛthivīdhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Abdhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Tejodhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Vāyudhāraṇīvaśavartin Buddha; namo Duḥkhavaśavartin Buddha; namo Samudayavaśavartin Buddha; namo Nirodhavaśavartin Buddha; namo Mārgavaśavartin Buddha; namo Skandhavaśavartin Buddha; namo Dhātuvaśavartin Buddha; namo Āyatanavaśavartin Buddha; namo Tryadhvavaśavartin Buddha; namo Dhāraṇīpuṣpavaśavartin Buddha; namo Maṅgalaprabha Buddha; namo Gandhadīpavastravaśavartiprabha Buddha; namo Dharmadhvaja Buddha; namo Siṃhasvara Buddha; namo Prabhāsākara Buddha; namo Dharmaprabhāvyūhakāya Buddha; namo Sarvābhijñāprabha Buddha; namo Candrajñāna Buddha; namo Varasundara Buddha; namo Bhadrajina Buddha; namo Samantapūrṇa Buddha; namo Samantabhadra Buddha; namo Nārāyaṇarāja Buddha; namo Sarvārthasiddha Buddha; namo Adhiṣṭhānaprabhāva Buddha; namo Abhayadarśin Buddha; namo to all such limitless and boundless Buddhas of the past, future, and present; namo to the ten thousand Buddhas named Manoratha; namo to the thirty thousand Buddhas named Śaktimuni; namo to the two thousand Buddhas named Kauṇḍinya; namo to the one billion eight hundred million Buddhas named Dharmadhāturūpa; namo to the one billion eight hundred million Buddhas named Candrasūryapradīpa; namo to the one thousand five hundred Buddhas named Mahātejas; namo to the fifteen thousand Buddhas named Pramodya; namo to the eighty-four thousand Buddhas named Nāgarāja; namo to the fifteen thousand Buddhas named Sūrya; namo to the eighteen thousand Buddhas named Sālarāja; namo to the eighteen thousand Buddhas named Indradhvaja; namo to the eight thousand Buddhas named Suprabha; namo to the eight hundred Buddhas named Śānta."

28.2

"Namo to the three billion six hundred eleven million nine thousand five hundred Buddhas named Viśuddharāja. The names of these Buddhas cannot be heard for hundreds of thousands of millions of kalpas, like the udumbara flower. If someone receives, upholds, reads, and recites the names of these Buddhas, they shall ultimately be free from all afflictions."

28.3

"Śāriputra, you and the others should pay reverent homage to Padmottara Tathāgata."

28.4

"Namo Śāntarāja Buddha; namo Dīpaṃkara Buddha; namo Devaprabha Buddha; namo Guṇagiri Buddha; namo Jinottara Buddha; namo Sālarāja Buddha; namo Viśuddharāja Buddha; namo Mahāmatirāja Buddha; namo Meru Buddha; namo Mahāprajñāmeru Buddha; namo Ratnakara Buddha; namo Ratnagarbha Buddha; namo Vajravidāraṇa Buddha; namo Bhadrajñānākṣobhya Buddha; namo Samantagandha Buddha; namo Amṛtāyus Buddha; namo Durjaya Buddha; namo Candraprabha Buddha; namo Sūryaprabhāsa Buddha; namo Jñānaketu Buddha; namo Mahāsiṃha Buddha; namo Meruparvata Buddha; namo Gandhaprabha Buddha; namo Guṇagiri Buddha; namo Mahābhijña Buddha; namo Vimalagarbha Buddha; namo Ratnaprākāra Buddha; namo Vajragarbha Buddha; namo Utpalagarbha Buddha; namo Mahāsūrya Buddha; namo Setuvāha Buddha; namo Candrajina Buddha; namo Dṛḍharata Buddha; namo Acintyadharmakāya Buddha; namo Jinagarbha Buddha; namo Amogharāja Buddha; namo Vajrāsaṅgajñāna Buddha; namo Ratnārcis Buddha; namo Śaśidīpa Buddha; namo Sarvaśatrudamana Buddha; namo Vaśavartin Buddha; namo Mahājñānasatyasvara Buddha; namo Prajñāgandhahastin Buddha; namo Devarāja Buddha."

28.5

"Śāriputra! If any good man or good woman hears the names of these Buddhas, upholds, reads, and recites them without giving rise to doubt, that person will not enter hell, will not enter [the realm of] animals, and will not enter the destiny of hungry ghosts for eighty billion kalpas; they will not be born in frontier lands, will not be born into poor households, and will not be born into lowly households; they will constantly be born in noble and wealthy places among devas and humans; they will constantly attain unhindered joy and delight, and will constantly receive the respect and offerings of all the world, up to attaining great nirvāṇa. Śāriputra! You all should pay reverent homage to the Buddha Incorruptible Body.

28.6

"Namo Praised Sound Buddha, Namo Praised Majestic Virtue Buddha, Namo Praised Name Buddha, Namo Yeduo Buddha, Namo Sound Flame Buddha, Namo Diamond Samādhi Sovereign Buddha, Namo Sound Segment Valiant Buddha, Namo Wisdom Victor Buddha, Namo Wisdom Good Knower Buddha, Namo Wisdom Heap Buddha, Namo Wisdom Valiant Buddha, Namo Brahmā Victor Buddha, Namo Pure Vasu Buddha, Namo Pure Mind Buddha, Namo Pure Deva Buddha, Namo Pure Sound Buddha, Namo Brahmā Sovereign Buddha, Namo Majestic Virtue Buddha, Namo Vimala Victor Buddha, Namo Vimala Intention Buddha, Namo Vimala Face Buddha, Namo Vimala Supreme Buddha, Namo Constantly Mindful of the Suffering of All Sentient Beings Buddha, Namo Boundless Sound Buddha, Namo True Seeing Buddha, Namo Good Eye Moon Buddha, Namo Deep Sound Buddha, Namo Emitting Sound Buddha, Namo Terrifying Māra's Might Sound Buddha, Namo Pure Eye Buddha, Namo Boundless Eye Buddha, Namo Universal Eye Buddha, Namo Victorious Eye Buddha, Namo Inaccessible Buddha, Namo Tranquil Victor Buddha, Namo Well-Tranquil Mind Buddha, Namo Well-Tranquil Faculties Buddha, Namo Well-Tranquil Intention Buddha, Namo Well-Tranquil Virtue Buddha, Namo Well-Abiding Buddha, Namo Sovereign King of Assemblies Buddha, Namo Sovereign of the Great Assembly Buddha, Namo Liberator of Assemblies Buddha, Namo Dharma Banner Buddha, Namo Dharma Mountain Buddha, Namo Dharma Victor Buddha, Namo Dharma Body Buddha, Namo Dharma Power Buddha, Namo Dharma Valiant Buddha, Namo Definite Dharma Body Buddha, Namo Eighty Billion Buddhas of the Same Name 'Definite Dharma Body' in the Second Kalpa.

28.7

"Śāriputra! If any good man or good woman upholds, reads, and recites the names of these Buddhas, they will ultimately never enter hell and will swiftly attain samādhi.

28.8

"Śāriputra! Beyond these Buddha names, after immeasurable, boundless asaṃkhyeya kalpas, there will be a Buddha named Human Sovereign Sound; you all should pay homage with single-minded devotion. That Buddha Human Sovereign Sound will abide in the world with a lifespan of seven hundred million kalpas. At the first assembly, a sangha of three hundred million śrāvakas will gather, and an assembly of eighty nayuta tens of millions of bodhisattvas will gather; they will all attain the supernormal faculties, possess the four unhindered knowledges, penetrate all emptiness, and reach the other shore. Even if I were to abide in the world for immeasurable kalpas and speak of that Buddha's great assembly and the adornment of his land, it would be [no more than] the portion of a single drop in the waters of the great ocean.

28.9

"Namo Samādhi Absorption Sovereign Buddha, Namo Wisdom Absorption Sovereign Buddha, Namo Characteristic Awakening Sovereign Buddha, Namo Universal Gathering Buddha, Namo Jewel Virtue Universal Light Buddha, Namo Krakucchanda Buddha, Namo Delighted Intention Beautiful Sound Buddha, Namo Rejoicing Buddha, Namo Lion Sound Buddha, Namo Lion Mark Buddha, Namo Cloud Sovereign Buddha, Namo Constant Cessation Buddha, Namo Sovereign Mark Buddha, Namo Brahmā Mark Buddha, Namo Amitâbha Buddha, Namo Deliverer from All Worldly Suffering and Affliction Buddha, Namo Cloud Sovereign King Buddha, Namo Destroyer of All Worldly Fear Buddha, Namo Ten Billion of My Śākyamuni Buddhas, Namo Maitreya Buddha, Namo Pure Body Buddha, Namo Flower Light Buddha, Namo Flower Foot Buddha, Namo Radiance Buddha, Namo Name and Mark Buddha, Namo Jāmbūnada Golden Light Buddha, Namo Dharma Light Buddha, Namo Jewel Light Buddha, Namo Universal Light Buddha, Namo Universal Mark Buddha, Namo Radiant Mark Buddha, Namo Universal Radiance Buddha, Namo Mountain and Ocean Wisdom Buddha, Namo Sovereign Penetration King Buddha, Namo Jewel Adornment Buddha, Namo Puṣya Buddha, Namo Ten Billion Sovereign Lamp King Buddhas, Namo Joyous Seeing Buddha, Namo Twenty Thousand Light Mark Adornment King Buddhas, Namo Thirty Thousand Buddhas of the Same Title 'Good Virtue', Namo Thunder Jewel Sound King Buddha, Namo Forty-Eight Thousand Dīpaṃkara Buddhas, Namo Jewel Moon King Buddha, Namo Free from Defilement Light Buddha, Namo Wondrous Color Radiance Buddha, Namo Destroyer of All Difficulties for Beings Buddha, Namo Multitude of Fragrances Buddha, Namo Multitude of Adornments Buddha, Namo Ten Thousand Adornment Radiance Buddhas, Namo Eighty Billion Adornment Radiance Buddhas, Namo Jewel Flower Adornment Buddha, Namo Foremost Virtue King Buddha, Namo Purple-Golden Radiance Buddha, Namo Five Hundred Flower Light Buddhas Granted Prophecy, Namo Nārāyaṇa Indestructible Buddha, Namo Fine Flower Adornment Buddha.

28.10

"Next, pay homage to the great canon Dharma wheel of the twelve divisions of scriptures.

28.11

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

28.12

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

28.13

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

28.14

"Namas to all such immeasurable and boundless pratyekabuddhas.

28.15

"Śāriputra! If any good man, good woman, bhikṣu, bhikṣuṇī, upāsaka, or upāsikā can uphold, read, and recite the names of these Buddhas and bodhisattvas, they will never fall into the evil destinies, will be born among devas and humans, will constantly encounter Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and good spiritual friends, will keep far away from all afflictions, and will ultimately attain great bodhi."

28.16

When the Buddha had spoken this Sūtra on the Names of the Buddhas, the Venerable Śāriputra, the bhikṣu Mahānāman, all the bhikṣus, bhikṣuṇīs, upāsakas, and upāsikās, devas, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kiṃnaras, mahoragas, humans and non-humans, as well as all the bodhisattva-mahāsattvas, rejoiced greatly, received it on their crowns, and put it into practice.

28.17

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

28.18

"We disciples have already confessed the retributions of the three wretched destinies and the like; now we should again bow down with sincere earnestness to confess the residual retributions among humans and devas. We together have received this lifespan in Jambudvīpa, and though it is said to be one hundred years, few indeed complete it; in the interim, countless numbers are cut short by premature death in the prime of life. Only manifold sufferings torment body and mind; grief, sorrow, terror, and dread never cease even for a moment. Such things are all because our roots of goodness are frail while our evil karmas are exceedingly abundant, causing whatever our minds undertake in the present to fall short of our wishes. One should know that all of these are residual retributions of past evil karma. Therefore, we disciples take refuge in the Buddhas today with utmost sincerity.

28.19

"Namo Great Adornment Buddha of the eastern direction, Namo Fire of Wisdom Buddha of the southern direction, Namo Wisdom Fragrance Victor Buddha of the western direction, Namo King of Wisdom Power Buddha of the northern direction, Namo Nārāyaṇa Victorious Action Buddha of the south-eastern direction, Namo Rain of Pleasure Buddha of the south-western direction, Namo Universal Acclaim of the True Dharma Buddha of the north-western direction, Namo Practice of the Three Vehicles Buddha of the north-eastern direction, Namo Great Penetration Wisdom Victor Buddha of the nadir, Namo Abundant King of Lightning Lamps Buddha of the zenith.

28.20

"Namas to all such Triratnas throughout the ten directions and the entirety of space.

28.21

"We disciples, from beginningless time down to the present day, with regard to all immeasurable residual retributions, lingering calamities, and past retributions in the present and future among humans and devas, confess the sinful retributions of being crippled, deformed, beset by the hundred diseases, and having defective faculties; we confess the sinful retributions of evil views, the three evil destinies, and the eight difficulties in human frontier lands; we confess the sinful retributions of having many illnesses, emaciation, shortened lifespan, and premature death among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of the six relations and kin being unable constantly to protect and keep each other among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of relatives and friends perishing, and the suffering of separation from loved ones among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of encountering enemies, bringing grief, anxiety, and dread among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of the perils, fright, and terror of flood, fire, bandits, and weapons among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of being solitary, destitute, wandering adrift, scattered, and losing one's homeland among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of being locked in prison, kept in confinement, made to stand sideways, and whipped, beaten, and tortured among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of public and private disputes mutually implicating and mutually slandering one another among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of evil diseases lasting year after year and month after month without recovery, lying on mats and beds unable to rise and move about among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of winter warm-illnesses, summer pestilences, virulent plagues, and cold-damage among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of malicious wind, swelling, fullness, and obstinate blockage among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of evil spirits watching for opportune moments and seeking to bring about calamity and bewitchment among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of the cries of ominous birds, a hundred strange omens, flying corpses, and perverse ghosts causing demonic apparitions among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of being harmed by tigers, leopards, jackals, wolves, and all kinds of ferocious beasts of water and land among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of hanging oneself, stabbing oneself, committing suicide, and harming oneself among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of being grieved, lamenting, strangling oneself, flying into rage, and being excessively delighted among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of casting oneself into chasms, throwing oneself into fire, drowning, and jumping from heights among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of lacking majestic virtue and renown among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of clothing and the requisites of life failing to satisfy the heart among humans; we confess the sinful retributions of meeting with bad companions who create obstructions when going about, coming in and out, and conducting affairs among humans. All such sinful retributions of immeasurable disasters, adversities, pestilences, perils, hardships, decline, and afflictions in the present and future among humans and devas, we confess. Today, with utmost sincerity before the Buddhas of the ten directions, the venerable Dharma, and the holy assembly, we disciples lay bare our livers and expose our hearts, begging for mercy and confessing.

28.22

"May we disciples, relying on the merits produced by this confession, vow that life after life, age after age, our bodily marks may be fully complete, just like Rāhula; that we may constantly meet the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha, and ever hear the wondrous Dharma; that our lifespans may equal heaven and earth, not entangled by the hundred diseases; that the six relations and kin may constantly protect one another; that hostile bandits and weapons may be forever parted from us; that clothing and trunks may naturally be ever full, and fragrant rice of a hundred flavors ever fill our bowls; that prisons and places of confinement may be transformed into heavenly halls; that verbal disputes and mutual criticism may turn into harmony; that lingering diseases of successive years may depart body and mind forever; that pestilences, poisons, and all calamities may ever leave our thoughts; and that monsters, sprites, ominous birds, tigers, leopards, jackals, wolves, and all misfortunes of water and land may depart without remainder; and whether cutting and punishing oneself or getting angry or delighted by oneself—may all such sins, from now until we attain Buddhahood, be parted from us forever. May we disciples not receive retributions in the evil destinies; but rather, giving rise only to great compassion, rescue and protect all sentient beings, enabling them to fulfill their natures, broadly transform all species, and together ascend to correct awakening."

28.23

Mahāyāna Lotus Scripture of the Questions and Answers of the Śramaṇa Baoda on Retributions

28.24

A short time ago, Baoda entered a Flaying-the-Skin-and-Drinking-Blood Hell. Why is it named the Flaying-the-Skin-and-Drinking-Blood Hell? That hell is seventy yojanas in length and breadth, enclosed on all sides by iron walls and covered with iron netting; atop the four gates of the walls, boiling iron flows down, spreading throughout the hell, ablaze and scorching. Furthermore, there are mechanical crossbows suspended in the void; when the sinners collide against them, the mechanical crossbows fire of themselves, shooting the sinners in the chest, or entering through their eyes, or entering through their mouths; and wherever the arrows strike, fierce fires blaze up together.

28.25

At that time, inside the southern gate there were five thousand sinners wailing and loudly weeping, crying out words such as these: "What sin have I committed now to enter this place?" Rolling about and casting themselves upon the ground, they refused to advance. A horse-headed rākṣasa, holding an iron hook in hand, struck toward their faces and dragged them into the hell. Once the sinners entered, flying fire came to scorch their bodies; their entire bodies were charred and rotten, skin and flesh separating from one another. Thereupon there were various worms of a thousand kinds that came to drink their blood, pulling and tugging at all their heads so that skin and flesh were torn apart. The jailer yakṣas right then flayed and stripped them, so that bones and flesh were sundered, their excruciating pains of ten thousand sorts. Through a single day and single night, they suffered boundless retribution, dying a thousand deaths and taking a thousand births, dying ten thousand deaths and taking ten thousand births, passing through tens of millions of kalpas with no date of release.

28.26

Baoda asked the horse-headed rākṣasa, saying: "Through what causes and conditions do all these sinners suffer such agony?"

28.27

The horse-headed rākṣasa answered, saying: "All these sinners received the pure precepts of the Buddha but did not firmly uphold them. Their minds were devoid of benevolence and compassion; their hands flayed sentient beings and slaughtered the Buddha-nature. Because of these sins, they fell into this hell. If they manage to emerge later, they shall fall among the beasts, where for hundreds of thousands of koṭis of births they will be slaughtered by others, facing enmity without any end; if they are born among humans, their faculties will be incomplete."

28.28

Baoda heard this, wept with grief, and departed.

28.29

Sūtra on the Names of the Buddhas, Fascicle Twenty-Eight

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