Part 212 of the collection · Teacher 41 of 53: Lady Māyā (25 of ~?) · Fascicle 56 of 60 · T278

Continuing the Buddha-List

The Bhadrakalpa buddha-list continues without pause, thirty more names of buddhas to whom Māyā has likewise been mother, from Good-Banner Buddha through Vajra-Wisdom-Mountain Buddha.

Translator: Ru-Yi Meditation Center Status: Part 212 of 454 complete Source: Taishō T278, 入法界品第三十四之十四 (Buddhabhadra, Eastern Jin) Reading notes after Fazang's 華嚴經探玄記 (T1733)

From Good-Banner to Vajra-Wisdom-Mountain

Chinese Source

「……善幢佛、智盛佛、無量音佛、無諍佛、散疑佛、清淨佛、廣光佛、速淨佛、妙德雲佛、莊嚴頂髮佛、樹王佛、莊嚴寶冠佛、智海佛、淨寶佛、堅天冠佛、具諸願佛、大自在佛、妙德王佛、勝妙德佛、栴檀雲佛、廣淨眼佛、殊勝慧佛、修習智佛、高王佛、自在慧佛、離色佛、師子喜佛、無上王佛、妙德頂佛、金剛智山佛、……」

Ru-Yi Translation

"… Good-Banner Buddha, Wisdom-Blazing Buddha, Boundless-Voice Buddha, Contentionless Buddha, Doubt-Dispelling Buddha, Pure Buddha, Vast-Light Buddha, Swiftly-Purified Buddha, Sublime-Virtue-Cloud Buddha, Adorned-Crown-of-Hair Buddha, King-of-Trees Buddha, Adorned-Jeweled-Crown Buddha, Wisdom-Ocean Buddha, Pure-Jewel Buddha, Firm-Deva-Crown Buddha, Every-Vow-Fulfilled Buddha, Great-Sovereign Buddha, Sublime-Virtue-King Buddha, Supreme-Sublime-Virtue Buddha, Sandalwood-Cloud Buddha, Vast-Pure-Eye Buddha, Surpassing-Wisdom Buddha, Cultivated-Wisdom Buddha, Lofty-King Buddha, Sovereign-Wisdom Buddha, Form-Transcending Buddha, Lion-Joy Buddha, Supreme-King Buddha, Sublime-Virtue-Crown Buddha, Vajra-Wisdom-Mountain Buddha … [the list continues]"

Reading note — after Fazang

Names built from the same handful of recurring elements — 妙德 (sublime virtue), 自在 (sovereign mastery), 智/慧 (wisdom), 王 (king), 光/焰 (light, flame) — recombine into new buddha-names throughout this list, exactly as they will for its full length. This is not repetition worth smoothing over in translation: the Bhadrakalpa's own buddhas, in this text's own reckoning, share a vocabulary of virtues precisely because each one is a full instance of the same awakening, not a variation on some more original template.

Part 212 In Progress

Thirty more names are now given in full. The list continues in Part 213.

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