佛說觀佛三昧海經 6.38

6.38

"The Buddha told the Great King: 'Listen attentively, listen attentively, and reflect upon it well! The Tathāgata will analyze and explain it for the King. In the remote past, immeasurable kalpas ago, there was a Buddha, a Bhagavat named Tathāgata Ratnacchatradīparāja (King of the Lamp with a Single Jeweled Canopy), complete with the ten epithets. After that Buddha passed away, during the Semblance Dharma, there was a king named Miśraratnapuṣpaprabha (Varied Jeweled Flower Radiance). That king had a son named Sudarśana (Pleasant to Behold), who sought to go forth [as a monastic], and his father granted permission. The prince went to the mountain to a monastery and sought to go forth. At that time there was a monk, intelligent and of great wisdom, who deeply understood the true nature of reality (dharmatā); he accepted him as a disciple. There was also a monk named Guṇapuṣpaprabha (Radiance of the Flower of Virtue), who was skilled in explaining the essentials of the Dharma to guide and advance beginners. Although the prince-monk had gone forth, he still harbored arrogance. When his preceptor (upādhyāya) explained to him the profound and wondrous Dharma, the perfection of wisdom (prajñāpāramitā), and the meaning of great emptiness, the prince, upon hearing it, misunderstood it and spoke errantly. After the monk passed away, he said: "My great upādhyāya was empty of wisdom, capable only of praising non-existent, empty matters. May I in future births not take pleasure in seeing him! My ācārya possessed wisdom and eloquence; may he be my good spiritual friend (kalyāṇamitra) in birth after birth!" After the prince-monk said this, he explained the Dharma as non-Dharma and explained non-Dharma as the Dharma, instructing his followers to practice wrong views. Although he maintained the prohibitions and was not deficient in deportment, because of his erroneous understanding, after his life ended, in the time it takes to shoot an arrow, he fell into the Avīci hell, constantly suffering anguish for eighty billion kalpas. When his retribution was finished, he emerged to become a poor and lowly person; for five hundred lifetimes he was deaf, foolish, and blind, and for one thousand two hundred lifetimes he was constantly a maidservant to others.' When the Buddha said this, Queen Mallikā's five hundred maidservants repented, reproached themselves, and gave rise to bodhicitta, vowing to understand the profound teaching of emptiness in future lives.