From Brow and Forehead, Śakras and Brahmās
The white curl between Sea-Banner's own brows gives rise to Śakras whose light shakes the very kings of Sumeru, praising six distinct powers in a row; and from his forehead come Brahmā-heavens of a quieter, more dignified character, urging every buddha to teach rather than teaching themselves.
Six Powers Praised, Three Delights Named
The Śakras from Sea-Banner's own brow praise six powers in a row — blessedness, wisdom, joy, resolve, mindfulness, and the mind of enlightenment — before turning to three specific delights, each one paired with what it removes: seeing the buddha removes worldly desire, hearing the dharma wearies one of worldly domains, and contemplating wisdom severs worldly defilement.
從其眉間白毫相中，出無數百千億帝釋，皆於境界而得自在，摩尼寶珠繫其頂上，光照一切諸天宮殿，震動一切須彌山王，覺悟一切諸天大眾；歎福德力，說智慧力，生其樂力，持其志力，淨其念力，堅其所發菩提心力，讚樂見佛；令除世欲，讚樂聞法；令厭世境，讚樂觀智；令絕世染，止脩羅戰，斷煩惱諍，滅怖死心，發降魔願，興立正法須彌山王，成辦眾生一切事業。如是所作，周遍法界。
From within the mark of the white curl between his own brows, there emerged countless hundreds of thousands of millions of Śakras, every one of them having attained self-mastery over their own domain, with maṇi jewels bound at the crown of their own heads, their light illuminating every heavenly palace, shaking every king of Sumeru, and awakening every great assembly of every heaven; praising the power of blessedness and merit, speaking of the power of wisdom, giving rise to the power of joy, upholding the power of resolve, purifying the power of mindfulness, and making firm the power of the mind of enlightenment they had given rise to, praising the delight of seeing the buddha, causing worldly desire to be removed; praising the delight of hearing the dharma, causing worldly domains to be wearied of; praising the delight of contemplating wisdom, causing worldly defilement to be severed; stopping the wars of the asuras, cutting off the strife of affliction, extinguishing the mind's own fear of death, and giving rise to the vow to subdue māra, establishing the king of Sumeru that is the true dharma, and accomplishing every one of every sentient being's own tasks. All such deeds as these pervade the entire dharma-realm.
興立正法須彌山王 — establishing the king of Sumeru that is the true dharma. The Śakras' own light has just shaken every literal king of Sumeru; their final act is to raise up a different Sumeru entirely — one made of the true dharma rather than stone — as though the mountain that was shaken needed to be rebuilt out of something sturdier.
Brahmās Who Urge Rather Than Teach
Where the Śakras acted directly — shaking, awakening, establishing — the Brahmā-heavens from Sea-Banner's own forehead take a quieter role entirely: not teaching the dharma themselves, but urging every buddha to speak it, their own beauty and stillness a form of persuasion in itself.
從其額上，出無數百千億梵天，色相端嚴，世間無比，威儀寂靜，言音美妙，勸佛說法，歎佛功德，令諸菩薩悉皆歡喜，能辦眾生無量事業，普遍一切十方世界。
From his own forehead, there emerged countless hundreds of thousands of millions of Brahmā-heavens, their physical forms upright and dignified, unequaled anywhere in the world, their deportment quiet and still, their speech and voice beautiful and wondrous, urging every buddha to speak the dharma, praising every buddha's own merit, causing every bodhisattva to rejoice entirely, able to accomplish every sentient being's own measureless task, pervading every world throughout the ten directions.
勸佛說法 — urging every buddha to speak the dharma. This traditional role of Brahmā — the one who entreats a newly awakened buddha to teach rather than remain silent — is folded here into a single phrase among Sea-Banner's countless emanations, a whole cosmology reduced to something his own forehead can produce at will.
Part 936 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-three. Part 937 turns to what emerges from Sea-Banner's own head — bodhisattvas as numerous as motes of dust, teaching the pāramitās one after another through images of dream, poison, and gold.