佛說觀佛三昧海經 8.15
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8.15
“At that time, seeing the Buddha alone, the women laughed aloud and said: ‘Śramaṇa, do you now have bodily parts or not?’ The Buddha said: ‘I am endowed with a male body and am a great man.’ Hearing this, the women covered their mouths and laughed. Thereupon, the Bhagavat spread his niṣīdana; the vajra earth deity transformed into a golden couch with legs made of the seven jewels beneath the sitting mat, and the Buddha sat upon it. He folded his saṅghāṭī and pulled aside his saṃkakṣikā, revealing the svastika on his chest for the women to see. When the women saw the character, it appeared like hundreds of thousands of men in the prime of their youth, with extraordinary features that delighted the women’s hearts. The Buddha further pulled aside his nivāsana, and they saw that the Buddha’s body was completely flat and smooth, with golden light like a thousand suns. Seeing this, the women all said: ‘Gautama is a rootless man.’ Hearing these words, the Buddha, according to the manner of a horse king, gradually caused it to appear: when it first emerged, it was like the bodily organ of an eight-year-old boy, and gradually it grew larger, resembling the form of a youth. Seeing this, the women were all delighted. Then the sheath of the concealed horse organ gradually grew larger like a lotus banner; within each tier were ten billion lotuses; on each lotus were ten billion jewel colors; within each color were ten billion transformation Buddhas; and each transformation Buddha was attended by ten billion bodhisattvas and an immeasurable multitude. At that time, with different mouths but one voice, the transformation Buddhas denounced the faults and perils of women’s evil desires, speaking these verses:
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