The Encouragement Of The Bodhisattva Universal Worthy

Chapter 28

 

At that time Universal Worthy Bodhisattva, renowned for his comfort, spiritual powers, and awesome virtue, came from the east together with uncountable, boundless, incalculable great Bodhisattvas. The countries they passed through quaked, and jeweled lotuses rained down, while uncountable hundreds of thousands of myriads of kotis of kinds of music played.

He was also accompanied by and surrounded by a great host of countless gods, dragons, yakshas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kinnaras, mahoragas, humans, non-humans and so forth. Each was manifesting the power of awesome virtue and spiritual penetrations.

Arriving at Mount Gridhrakuta in the Saha world, they bowed in obeisance to Shakyamuni Buddha, circumambulated him seven times to the right, and said to the Buddha, “World Honored One, in the country of the Buddha Superior King of Jeweled Awesome Virtue, I heard from afar that in the Saha world, the Dharma Flower Sutra was being spoken. I have come with uncountable, boundless hundreds of thousands of myriads of kotis of Bodhisattvas to hear and receive it. I only pray that the World Honored One will speak it. After the passing of the Thus Come One, how is a good man or good woman to obtain the Dharma Flower Sutra?”

previous    next    Contents

Sutra pages:  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    12    13    14    15    16    17

18    19    20    21    22    23    24    25    26    27    28    29    30    31    32    33    34

35    36    37    38    39    40    41    42    43    44    45    46    47    48    49    50   

return to top