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-PUNDARİKA.
XIV.
Meanwhile the Tathagatas, &c., who had flocked from hundred thousands of myriads of kotis of worlds, they, the creations of the Lord Sâkyamuni, who were preaching the law to the beings in other worlds; who all around the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., were seated with crossed legs on magnificent jewel thrones? at the foot of jewel trees in every direction of space; as well as the satellites of those Tathâgatas were struck with wonder and amazement at the sight of that great host, that great multitude of Bodhisattvas emerging from the gaps of the earth and established in the element of ether, and they (the satellites) asked each their own Tathagata : Where, O Lord, do so many Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas, so innumerable, so countless, come from? Whereupon those Tathagatas, &c., answered severally to their satellites: Wait awhile, young men of good family; this Bodhisattva Mahâsattva here, called Maitreya, has just received from the Lord Sâkyamuni a revelation about his destiny to supreme, perfect enlightenment. He has questioned the Lord Sâkyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., about the matter, and the Lord Sakyamuni, the Tathagata, &c., is going to explain it; then you may hear.
Thereupon the Lord addressed the Bodhisattva Maitreya : Well done, Agita, well done; it is a sublime subject, Agita, about which thou questionest me. Then the Lord addressed the entire host of Bodhisattvas: Be attentive all, young men of good
case of niravadhi. Burnouf has,'toi qui es affranchi de l'accumulation (des éléments constitutifs de l'existence]:
Samantâd; Burnoui's en présence'is wanting in my MS. ? Or, thrones of magnificent jewels.
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