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XI.
APPARITION OF A STUPA.
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In the point of space below, Mahâpratibhana, there are innumerable thousands of worlds. Further on is the world called Ratnavisuddha”, there is the Tathagata named Prabhataratna, the Arhat, &c. This Lord of yore made this vow: Formerly, when following the course of a Bodhisattva, I have not arrived at supreme, perfect enlightenment before I had heard this Dharmaparyaya of the Lotus of the True Law, serving for the instruction of Bodhisattvas. But from the moment that I had heard this Dharmaparyâya of the Lotus of the True Law, I have become fully ripe for supreme, perfect enlightenment. Now, Mahậpratibhana, that Lord Prabhataratna, the Tathagata, &c., at the juncture of time when his complete extinction was to take place, announced in presence of the world, including the gods : After my complete extinction, monks, one Stūpa must be made of precious substances of this frame (or form) of the proper body of the Tathagata ; the other Stapas, again, should be made in dedication (or in reference) to me. Thereupon, Mahâpratibhana, the Lord Prabhataratna, the Tathagata, &c., pronounced this blessing : Let my Stupa here, this Stapa of my proper bodily frame (or form), arise wherever in any Buddha-field in the ten directions of space, in all worlds, the Dharmaparyaya of the Lotus of the True Law is propounded, and let
1 Var. lect. innumerable hundred thousand myriads of konis of worlds.
? I.e. clear by jewels (stars), or, quite the reverse, cleared from jewels. Most probably, however, we have to take it in the former sense. The world so called is, apparently, the starry vault, beyond the atmosphere where the rainbow is glittering.
• Asya Tathagatâtmabhâvavigrahasya.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |