Summary
s.1The Buddha Śākyamuni recounts one of his most significant previous lives, when he was a court priest to a king and made a detailed prayer to become a buddha, also causing the king and his princes, his own sons and disciples, and others to make their own prayers to become buddhas too. This is revealed to be not only the major event that is the origin of buddhas and bodhisattvas such as Amitābha, Akṣobhya, Avalokiteśvara, Mañjuśrī, and the thousand buddhas of our eon, but also the source and reason for Śākyamuni’s unsurpassed activity as a buddha.
s.1釋迦牟尼佛講述了他最重要的一個過去世，當時他是一位國王的宮廷祭司，發了詳細的願來成為佛陀，同時也促使那位國王和他的王子們、他自己的兒子和弟子們，以及其他眾生也各自發願成為佛陀。這被揭示不僅是無量光佛、阿閦佛、觀世音菩薩、文殊菩薩以及我們這一劫中千尊佛陀等眾多佛陀和菩薩起源的重大事件，也是釋迦牟尼作為佛陀進行無上利益眾生活動的根源和原因。
s.2The “white lotus of compassion” in the title of this sūtra refers to Śākyamuni himself, emphasizing his superiority over all other buddhas, like a fragrant, healing white lotus among a bed of ordinary flowers. Śākyamuni chose to be reborn in an impure realm during a degenerate age, and therefore his compassion was greater than that of other buddhas.
s.2這部經中"悲白蓮"的名號指的是釋迦牟尼本身，強調他超越一切佛陀的殊勝地位，就像芳香療癒的白蓮花綻放在普通華花的花床中。釋迦牟尼選擇在末法時代投生於不淨穢土，因此他的悲心超越了其他佛陀。