Saddharma Pundarika

SR No.: 007677
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

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SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA.
XIII.
not preach the law to a hermaphrodite, keeps no intercourse with such a person, nor greets too friendly in return. He does not enter a house alone in order to receive alms, unless having the Tathagata in his thoughts. And when he happens to preach the law to females, he does not do so by passionate attachment to the law, far less by passionate attachment to a woman. When he is preaching, he does not display his row of teeth, let alone a quick emotion on his physiognomy. He addresses no novice, male or female, no nun, no monk, no young boy, no young girl, nor enters upon a conversation with them; he shows no great readiness in answering their address?, nor cares to give too frequent answers. This, Mañ. gusrl, is called the first proper sphere of a Bodhisattva Mahâsattva.
Further, Mañgusri, a Bodhisattva Mahâsattva looks upon all laws (and things) as void; he sees them duly established, remaining unaltered, as they are in reality, not liable to be disturbed, not to be moved backward, unchangeable, existing in the highest sense of the word (or in an absolute sense), having the nature of space, escaping explanation and expression by means of common speech, not born, composed and simple, aggregated and isolated, not expressible in words, independently established, manifesting them
i Pratisamlâpanaguruka, literally making much of returning (one's) addressing.'
Yathấvatpratishthitân, aviparîtasthấyino yathâbhâtân, &c. Burnouf adds, 'privées de toute essence,' i.e. nirâtmakân.
• In the rendering of the last four terms I have followed Burnouf, as the reading in the Camb. MS. is evidently corrupt: asamskritânasamtânâsammânâsannâbhila pena pravyâhritân. The original reading may have been asamskritân nâsamskritân, not composed, not simple; nâsaman na samân, not unlike
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