Continuing the Buddha-List
The Bhadrakalpa buddha-list nears its close, thirty more names from Boundless-Light Buddha through Meaning-Non-Retrogressing Buddha.
From Boundless-Light to Meaning-Non-Retrogressing
「……無量光佛、大莊嚴焰佛、法王不虛佛、不退地佛、明淨天佛、苦行佛、淨天佛、同意佛、解脫音佛、無壞王佛、滅諂偽佛、淨薝蔔光佛、善勝月佛、執明炬佛、莊嚴身佛、不可說佛、觀眾生佛、無量光佛、無畏音佛、最勝天佛、無畏智盛佛、妙德華佛、月光焰佛、不退慧佛、離愛佛、不著慧佛、長養德聚佛、滅惡道佛、無量化師子吼佛、義不退佛、……」
"… Boundless-Light Buddha, Great-Adorned-Flame Buddha, Dharma-King-Never-False Buddha, Non-Retrogressing-Ground Buddha, Bright-Pure-Deva Buddha, Ascetic-Practice Buddha, Pure-Deva Buddha, Accord Buddha, Liberation-Voice Buddha, Indestructible-King Buddha, Flattery-and-Deceit-Extinguishing Buddha, Pure-Campaka-Light Buddha, Good-Supreme-Moon Buddha, Bright-Torch-Bearing Buddha, Adorned-Body Buddha, Ineffable Buddha, Beholding-Every-Sentient-Being Buddha, Boundless-Light Buddha, Fearless-Voice Buddha, Most-Supreme-Deva Buddha, Fearless-Wisdom-Blazing Buddha, Sublime-Virtue-Flower Buddha, Moon-Light-Flame Buddha, Non-Retrogressing-Wisdom Buddha, Craving-Transcending Buddha, Unattached-Wisdom Buddha, Nurturing-Virtue-Accumulation Buddha, Evil-Destiny-Extinguishing Buddha, Boundless-Transformation-Lion's-Roar Buddha, Meaning-Non-Retrogressing Buddha … [the list continues]"
Boundless-Light and Sublime-Virtue-Flower each recur a second time within this list — the same pairing of syllables the text has already used earlier for other buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa. Rather than treat this as an error to smooth away, the translation preserves it exactly as given: a finite kalpa's buddhas evidently share names as freely as they share the awakening the names describe.
Part 215 In Progress
150 of the list's 178 names are now given. The final 28 names, and the list's own closing statement, follow in Part 216.
Continue to Part 216 →