Summary
s.1The Questions of the Nāga King Anavatapta is a discourse that provides guidance on core features of the bodhisattva path, including the perfections, mindfulness, and meditation, with a strong orientation toward emptiness as the inexpressible ultimate nature. As the Buddha is teaching at Vulture Peak Mountain near Rājagṛha, a nāga king named Anavatapta approaches, questions him on these topics, and receives instruction on them. He then invites the Buddha to his home at Anavatapta , the legendary lake from which the four rivers of Jambudvīpa flow. After flying there with an enormous entourage, the Buddha resumes his teachings. The assembly is joined by Mañjuśrī and thousands of other bodhisattvas, and there ensues a debate on the relative merits of the hearer path and the bodhisattva path. At the culmination of the sūtra, the Buddha prophesies Anavatapta’s future awakening, and the nāga king and his entire family take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha.
s.1《阿耨達龍王所問經》是一部論述提供菩薩道核心指引的經典，涵蓋波羅蜜、念覺支和禪定等內容，並強烈強調空作為不可言說的究竟性。佛陀在王舍城附近的靈鷲山教法時，一位名叫阿耨達的龍王前來詢問這些議題，並獲得相關教導。隨後龍王邀請佛陀到他位於阿耨達池的家中，那是閻浮提四大河流的源頭。佛陀率領龐大的眷屬前往該處，並繼續開示教法。文殊菩薩和數千位其他菩薩加入了法會，隨後關於聲聞道和菩薩道相對功德的辯論展開。在經典的最後，佛陀對阿耨達的未來覺悟作出預言，龍王和他的全家向佛陀、法和僧眾皈依。