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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DURATION OF LIFE OF THE TATHÂGATA.
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reveals at each (generation) his own name, reveals a state in which Nirvana has not yet been reached, and in different ways he satisfies the wants of (different) creatures through various Dharmaparyâyas?. This being the case, young men of good family, the Tathagata declares to the creatures, whose dispositions are so various and who possess so few roots of goodness, so many evil propensities : I am young of age, monks; having left my father's home, monks, I have lately arrived at supreme, perfect enlightenments. When, however, the Tathagata, who so long ago arrived at perfect enlightenment, declares himself to have but lately arrived at perfect enlightenment, he does so in order to lead creatures to full ripeness and make them go in. Therefore have these Dharmaparyâyas been revealed; and it is for the education of creatures, young men of good family, that the Tathagata has revealed all Dharmaparyâyas. And, young men of good family, the word that the Tathagata delivers on behalf of the education of creatures, either under his own appearance or under another's, either on his own authority or under the mask of another, all that the Tatha
1 Instead of the last clause we find in the margin,' reveals (or declares) at each his own Nirvana.' The material difference is slight, for the temporal appearances of the everlasting being are final and multifarious, but the being itself is one and everlasting. Sakyamuni is, in reality, the one and everlasting brahma.
. The Tathagata, in his proper being well understood, is not only the Devâtideva, the supreme god of gods, of Buddhism, but of all religions in the world; from him are all scriptures.
• In various periods mankind wants renewed revelation; hence Vishnu, for Dharma's sake, descends on earth. • Åtmaram banena (sic), properly, on his own base.
Aparåvaranena. One may also render it by 'under the cloak of another.'
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