A Thousand Pillars
Good-Wealth follows the instruction he was just given, and the ground itself answers — a single lotus rising up to carry an entire tower, a thousand jeweled pillars in rows, before the throne inside it starts pouring out flowers, bells, and buddha-forms from every surface at once.
A Thousand Pillars
Good-Wealth's obedience to Good Eye's teaching is answered at once — not with a sign, but with an entire structure rising out of the earth to meet him.
爾時，善財受行其教，即時覩見大寶蓮華從地涌出，金剛為莖，妙寶為藏，摩尼為葉，光明寶王以為其臺，眾寶色香以為其鬚，無數寶網彌覆其上。於其臺上，有一樓觀，名：普納十方法界藏，奇妙嚴飾，金剛為地，千柱行列，一切皆以摩尼寶成，閻浮檀金以為其壁，眾寶瓔珞四面垂下，階陛、欄楯周匝莊嚴。其樓觀中，有如意寶蓮華之座，種種眾寶以為嚴飾，妙寶欄楯，寶衣間列，寶帳、寶網以覆其上，眾寶繒幡周匝垂下，微風徐動，光流響發；寶華幢中雨眾妙華，寶鈴鐸中出美音聲，寶戶牖間垂諸瓔珞，摩尼身中流出香水，寶象口中出蓮華網，寶師子口吐妙香雲，梵形寶輪出隨樂音，金剛寶鈴出諸菩薩大願之音，寶月幢中出佛化形，淨藏寶王現三世佛受生次第，日藏摩尼放大光明遍照十方一切佛剎，摩尼寶王放一切佛圓滿光明，毘盧遮那摩尼寶王興供養雲供養一切諸佛如來，如意珠王念念示現普賢神變充滿法界，須彌寶王出天宮殿，天諸采女種種妙音歌讚如來不可思議微妙功德。
At that time, Good-Wealth received and practiced this teaching, and at that very moment beheld a great jeweled lotus flower spring forth from the ground — its stem made of vajra, its calyx made of wondrous jewels, its petals made of maṇi, its dais made of a king of radiant jewels, its stamens made of every kind of jeweled color and fragrance, and countless jeweled nets spread over it entirely. Upon that dais there was a tower, named Universally Receiving the Treasury of the Dharma-Realm in the Ten Directions, wondrously and marvelously adorned, its ground made of vajra, its thousand pillars standing in rows, every one of them formed entirely of maṇi jewels, its walls made of Jambūnada gold, with jeweled necklaces hanging down on every side, and its stairways and balustrades adorned all around. Within that tower there was a throne of wish-fulfilling jeweled lotus flowers, adorned throughout with every kind of jewel, with wondrous jeweled balustrades, jeweled garments arrayed between them, and jeweled canopies and jeweled nets covering over it, every kind of jeweled silk banner hanging down all around, gently stirred by a light breeze, streaming with light and sounding forth music. From jeweled flower-banners rained down every kind of wondrous flower; from jeweled bells and chimes came forth beautiful sounds; from between jeweled doors and windows hung every kind of necklace; from within the very bodies of the maṇi jewels flowed forth fragrant water; from the mouths of jeweled elephants came forth a net of lotus flowers; from the mouths of jeweled lions issued forth clouds of wondrous fragrance; from Brahmā-shaped jeweled wheels came forth music according to every desire; from vajra jeweled bells came forth the very sound of every bodhisattva's great vows; from jeweled moon-banners came forth transformed forms of the buddha; the jewel-king Pure Treasury manifested the sequence of birth of every buddha across the three periods of time; the maṇi Sun-Treasury released a great light, universally illumining every buddha-land throughout the ten directions; the maṇi jewel-king released the perfect and complete light of every buddha; the Vairocana maṇi jewel-king raised up clouds of offering to make offerings to every tathāgata; the wish-fulfilling pearl-king, in thought after thought, manifested Samantabhadra's own spiritual transformations, filling the whole Dharma-realm; the jewel-king Sumeru brought forth heavenly palaces; and every heavenly court-lady, with every kind of wondrous sound, sang in praise of the tathāgata's inconceivable and wondrous merit.
名：普納十方法界藏⋯千柱行列，一切皆以摩尼寶成 — named Universally Receiving the Treasury of the Dharma-Realm in the Ten Directions⋯its thousand pillars standing in rows, every one of them formed entirely of maṇi jewels. A single lotus, sprung from the ground, carries an entire tower on its dais — one with a name naming the whole of the Dharma-realm, and a thousand pillars to hold it, before a single throne inside it is even described.
Part 1236 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-six. Part 1237 turns to Māyā herself, seated at last upon this throne, and the first of the pure forms in which she appears before every being.