[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [佛說觀彌勒菩薩上生兜率天經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.452) › 1.8 # 佛說觀彌勒菩薩上生兜率天經 1.8 佛說觀彌勒菩薩上生兜率天經 1.8 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.452.1.8) 「爾時此宮有一大神，名牢度跋提，即從座起遍禮十方佛，發弘誓願：『若我福德應為彌勒菩薩造善法堂，令我額上自然出珠。』既發願已，額上自然出五百億寶珠，瑠璃頗梨一切眾色無不具足，如紫紺摩尼表裏暎徹。此摩尼光迴旋空中，化為四十九重微妙寶宮，一一欄楯萬億梵摩尼寶所共合成。諸欄楯間自然化生九億天子、五百億天女，一一天子手中化生無量億萬七寶蓮華，一一蓮華上有無量億光，其光明中具諸樂器。如是天樂不鼓自鳴，此聲出時，諸女自然執眾樂器，競起歌舞；所詠歌音演說十善、四弘誓願，諸天聞者皆發無上道心。 > “At that time, there is a great deity in this palace named Raudrabhadra. He immediately arises from his seat, bows everywhere to the Buddhas of the ten directions, and makes a great vow: ‘If my merit is fit to build a Good Dharma Hall for Bodhisattva Maitreya, may a pearl emerge spontaneously from my forehead.’ Having made this vow, fifty billion jewel pearls spontaneously emerge from his forehead, possessing all colours of lapis lazuli and crystal without exception, shining through inside and out like purple-blue mani. The light of this mani swirls in the air and transforms into a subtle, wondrous jewel palace of forty-nine storeys, with each railing constructed together from ten thousand koṭis of brahma-maṇi jewels. Between the railings, nine hundred million devaputras and fifty billion devīs are spontaneously born by transformation. In the hands of each devaputra appear by transformation countless koṭis and myriads of lotus blossoms of the seven treasures, and atop each lotus blossom are countless koṭis of lights. Within that light are all kinds of musical instruments. These celestial instruments play spontaneously without being struck. When this sound comes forth, the maidens spontaneously take up various musical instruments and vie with one another in singing and dancing. The songs they sing expound the ten good deeds and the four great vows, and all the devas who hear them resolve upon the unsurpassable mind of enlightenment. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.452.1.7) - [Next: 1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.452.1.9) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.452.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.452~en-mt.1.8) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [觀彌勒上生兜率天經贊](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1772.2.50) — Classical Chinese - [འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བྱམས་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་གནམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་བླངས་པའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199.4) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.452.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.452.1.8) · Pramāṇa