Part 837 of the collection · Fascicle 60 of 80 · 入法界品第三十九之一 · T279

A Single Vision Seen Throughout the Dharma-Realm

What is seen here, in this one grove, is not local to this one grove. The sūtra states plainly that every world throughout the entire dharma-realm and the realm of empty space sees the very same scene at the very same time — the tathāgata's own body, the bodhisattva assembly, and fourteen kinds of cloud raining down without interruption.

Translator: Ru-Yi Meditation Center Status: Part 837 — a single vision seen throughout the dharma-realm Source: Taishō T279 (Śikṣānanda, Tang, 695–699 CE)

No World Sees a Different Scene

Having described the Jeta Grove's transformation in exhaustive physical detail, the sūtra now says something even more remarkable about it: the scene is not confined to this one place. Every world without exception witnesses the identical vision, down to the very same fourteen kinds of raining cloud.

Chinese Source

如於此逝多林給孤獨園見佛國土清淨莊嚴,十方一切盡法界、虛空界、一切世界亦如是見。所謂:見如來身住逝多林,菩薩眾會皆悉遍滿;見普雨一切莊嚴雲,見普雨一切寶光明照曜雲,見普雨一切摩尼寶雲,見普雨一切莊嚴蓋彌覆佛剎雲,見普雨一切天身雲,見普雨一切華樹雲,見普雨一切衣樹雲,見普雨一切寶鬘、瓔珞相續不絕周遍一切大地雲,見普雨一切莊嚴具雲,見普雨一切如眾生形種種香雲,見普雨一切微妙寶華網相續不斷雲,見普雨一切諸天女持寶幢幡於虛空中周旋來去雲,見普雨一切眾寶蓮華於華葉間自然而出種種樂音雲,見普雨一切師子座寶網瓔珞而為莊嚴雲。

Ru-Yi Translation

Just as, in this Jeta Grove, in Anāthapiṇḍada's Garden, one sees the buddha-land's own pure adornment, so too, throughout the ten directions, the entire dharma-realm, the realm of empty space, and every world, it is seen in exactly the same way. Namely: one sees the tathāgata's own body abiding in the Jeta Grove, with the bodhisattva assembly filling it everywhere; one sees a universal rain of clouds of every kind of ornament; one sees a universal rain of clouds of jeweled light blazing bright; one sees a universal rain of clouds of maṇi gems; one sees a universal rain of clouds of ornamented canopies spreading to cover every buddha-land; one sees a universal rain of clouds of heavenly bodies; one sees a universal rain of clouds of flowering trees; one sees a universal rain of clouds of garment-trees; one sees a universal rain of clouds of jeweled garlands and necklaces, continuing without interruption, pervading the whole earth; one sees a universal rain of clouds of every kind of ornament; one sees a universal rain of clouds of every kind of incense shaped like sentient beings; one sees a universal rain of clouds of wondrous jeweled flower-nets, continuing without break; one sees a universal rain of clouds of every heavenly maiden holding jeweled banners and pennants, circling back and forth through empty space; one sees a universal rain of clouds of every kind of jeweled lotus flower, from among whose petals every kind of musical sound arises of its own accord; and one sees a universal rain of clouds of every lion-seat, adorned with jeweled nets and necklaces.

Reading note — Ru-Yi Meditation Center

十方一切盡法界、虛空界、一切世界亦如是見 — throughout the ten directions, the entire dharma-realm, the realm of empty space, and every world, it is seen in exactly the same way. What began as a description of one grove's transformation is here revealed to have never been local at all — every world's vision matches this one exactly, down to the same fourteen kinds of falling cloud, with no world seeing a lesser or different scene.

Part 837 Complete

This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty. Part 838 turns to the bodhisattvas who begin arriving from each of the ten directions, each one bringing clouds of offerings from a distant world to lay before the Buddha.