Summary
s.1This sūtra contains teachings given by the Buddha to a 120-year-old woman in the city of Vaiśalī. Upon meeting the Buddha, she asks him questions concerning the four stages of life, the aggregates, the elements, and the faculties. In response, the Buddha gives her a profound teaching on emptiness, using beautifully crafted examples to illustrate his point.
s.1本經是佛陀在毗舍離城向一位一百二十歲的老婦人傳授的教法。這位老婦人在見到佛陀後，向他提出關於人生四個階段、五蘊、十八界和六根的問題。佛陀以優美巧妙的比喻來回應，給予她關於空的深刻教法。
After hearing these teachings her doubts are dispelled and she is freed from clinging to the perception of a self. Ānanda asks the Buddha why he has given such profound teachings to this woman. The Buddha reveals that the woman has been his mother five hundred times in previous lifetimes and that he had generated the root of virtue for her to become enlightened. Because of her own strong aspirations, after dying, she would be born in the buddhafield of Sukhāvatī, and after sixty-eight thousand eons she would finally become the buddha Bodhyaṅgapuṣpakara.
聽聞這些教法後，她的疑惑得以消除，她從執著自我的認知中獲得解脫。阿難問佛陀為什麼要給這位女性傳授如此深遠的教法。佛陀揭示說，這位女性在過去的五百次轉世中曾是他的母親，他曾為她種下成就佛道的善根。由於她自己強大的願力，在她死後，她將轉生到極樂世界，在六萬八千劫之後，她最終將成為菩提華花果佛陀。