Essay name: Dasabhumika Sutra (translation and study)
Author:
Hwa Seon Yoon
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Pali
This is a study and translation of the Dasabhumika Sutra (鈥淭en Stages Discourse鈥�)鈥攁 significant Buddhist text. It examines the distinction between Theravada (Hinayana) and Mahayana Buddhism, focusing on the divergence in the spiritual concepts of Arhatship, Bodhisattva, Paramitas and Bhumis.
Chapter 4 - Annotated Translation of the Dasabhumika-Sutra
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into the splendor of Teaching. Ten hundreds thousands innumerable rays
issue out from his back and neck. Having issued out, they illumine the
bodies in the Pratyekabudda-vehicle in ten directions and present (to
them) the entry into a method for quiescent concentration.
Ten hundreds
thousands innumerable rays issue out from his mouth (lit. the door of his
face). Having issued out, they shine in ten directions on all the
Bodhisattvas in the first resolution until in the ninth stage, and present
(to them) the principle of wisdom and skill in means. Ten hundreds
thousands innumerable rays issue out from the circle of hair between his
eyebrows. Having issued out, they shine down all the abodes of Evil
Ones in ten directions, blacken them, illumine the Bodhisattvas who have
reached the stage of coronation, and then disappear into their bodies. As
many rays as atom-dusts in full of ten hundreds thousands innumerable
triple thousands issue out from the top of his head. Having issued out,
they shine in ten directions on all the assemblies of Tath膩gatas, which
have the realms of ideas as their quantity, which have the world of empty
space as their end. And they circle the world to the right in ten ways,
stop in the sky, form a great circle of ray-net, offer the great reverence
named 'Glowing Splendour' to all the Tath膩gatas.
This offering is such
that the offerings to the Tath膩gatas of all the Bodhisattvas from the first
arousal of mind (for enlightenment) up to the ninth stage cannot reach
even a part of one hundredth, of one thousandth, [...of one hundred
thousands millionth. It does not allow even numbering, counting, analogy,
