Mañjuśrī's Verses
Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva now rises to restate, in thirteen verses, everything the clouds of adornment have just shown — jeweled trees giving forth wondrous sound, transformation-bodies within every pore of the tathāgata, and the entire ten directions gathered into a single grove.
Every Transformation-Body, Like Samantabhadra
Among these thirteen verses, one stands out for naming a specific likeness: the inconceivable transformation-bodies appearing within every single pore of the tathāgata are each said to resemble the great bodhisattva Samantabhadra himself — the very figure whose own explanation of the samādhi opened this entire fascicle.
爾時，文殊師利菩薩，承佛神力，欲重宣此逝多林中諸神變事，觀察十方而說頌言：
汝應觀此逝多林，
以佛威神廣無際，
一切莊嚴皆示現，
十方法界悉充滿。
十方一切諸國土，
無邊品類大莊嚴，
於其座等境界中，
色像分明皆顯現。
從諸佛子毛孔出，
種種莊嚴寶焰雲，
及發如來微妙音，
遍滿十方一切剎。
寶樹華中現妙身，
其身色相等梵王，
從禪定起而遊步，
進止威儀恒寂靜。
如來一一毛孔內，
常現難思變化身，
皆如普賢大菩薩，
種種諸相為嚴好。
逝多林上虛空中，
所有莊嚴發妙音，
普說三世諸菩薩，
成就一切功德海。
逝多林中諸寶樹，
亦出無量妙音聲，
演說一切諸群生，
種種業海各差別。
林中所有眾境界，
悉現三世諸如來，
一一皆起大神通，
十方剎海微塵數。
十方所有諸國土，
一切剎海微塵數，
悉入如來毛孔中，
次第莊嚴皆現覩。
所有莊嚴皆現佛，
數等眾生遍世間，
一一咸放大光明，
種種隨宜化群品。
香焰眾華及寶藏，
一切莊嚴殊妙雲，
靡不廣大等虛空，
遍滿十方諸國土。
十方三世一切佛，
所有莊嚴妙道場，
於此園林境界中，
一一色像皆明現。
一切普賢諸佛子，
百千劫海莊嚴剎，
其數無量等眾生，
莫不於此林中見。
At that time, Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva, sustained by the Buddha's own spiritual power, wishing to proclaim once more these very spiritual transformations within the Jeta Grove, surveyed the ten directions and spoke these verses:
You should behold this Jeta Grove: through the Buddha's own awesome, spiritual power, boundless without limit, every adornment has been manifested, filling the entire dharma-realm in the ten directions.
Every land in the ten directions, adorned greatly with boundless kinds of ornament, appears clearly and distinctly, its every form and image displayed within this very seat and domain.
From the pores of the buddha's children emerge every kind of adorning, jeweled, blazing cloud, and the tathāgata's own wondrous sound is given forth, filling every land in the ten directions completely.
Within jeweled trees and flowers a wondrous body appears, its own form and color equal to Brahmā's own king; rising from meditative absorption, it walks forth, its every advance and pause constantly still.
Within every single pore of the tathāgata, inconceivable transformation-bodies constantly appear, every one like the great bodhisattva Samantabhadra himself, adorned beautifully with every kind of mark.
Within the empty space above the Jeta Grove, every ornament gives forth a wondrous sound, universally proclaiming the bodhisattvas of the three times, who have accomplished the entire ocean of merit.
The jeweled trees within the Jeta Grove likewise send forth measureless, wondrous sounds, proclaiming every living being's own ocean of karma, each one differing from the rest.
Every domain throughout this grove entirely manifests every tathāgata of the three times, each one giving rise to great spiritual superknowledge, as numerous as motes of dust in every ocean of lands in the ten directions.
Every land throughout the ten directions, as numerous as motes of dust in every ocean of lands, enters entirely into the tathāgata's own pores, their every adornment appearing in due sequence for all to behold.
Every ornament manifests a buddha, their number equal to every sentient being throughout the world, each one emitting great light, transforming every kind of living being exactly as fits each one.
Fragrant flames, every kind of flower, and every jeweled treasury, every excellent, wondrous cloud of adornment — none of them fails to be as vast as empty space itself, filling every land in the ten directions.
Every buddha across the three times in the ten directions, and every one of their own wondrous, adorned sites of awakening, appear clearly, every single form and image, within the domain of this very grove.
Every one of Samantabhadra's own buddha-children, and the lands adorned across an ocean of hundreds of thousands of kalpas, measureless in number, equal to every sentient being — there is none of them that cannot be seen within this very grove.
皆如普賢大菩薩 — every one like the great bodhisattva Samantabhadra himself. This entire fascicle opened with Samantabhadra explaining the Lion's Stretching-Forth Samādhi; here, in Mañjuśrī's own verses, the tathāgata's own countless transformation-bodies are described taking that very same form, as if the samādhi's explanation and its visible fruit had quietly become the same thing.
Part 882 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-one. Part 883 turns to the bodhisattvas entering these very samādhis, and the innumerable gateways of teaching they open for sentient beings as a result.