Summary
s.1In this lengthy final chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, while the Buddha Śākyamuni is in meditation in Śrāvastī, Mañjuśrī leaves for South India, where he meets the young layman Sudhana and instructs him to go to a certain kalyāṇamitra or “good friend,” who then directs Sudhana to another such friend. In this way, Sudhana successively meets and receives teachings from fifty male and female, child and adult, human and divine, and monastic and lay kalyāṇamitras, including night goddesses surrounding the Buddha and the Buddha’s wife and mother. The final three in the succession of kalyāṇamitras are the three bodhisattvas Maitreya, Mañjuśrī, and Samantabhadra. Samantabhadra’s recitation of the Samantabhadracaryāpraṇidhāna (“The Prayer for Completely Good Conduct”) concludes the sūtra.
s.1在這部華嚴經冗長的最終章節中，釋迦牟尼佛在舍衛城入定時，文殊菩薩前往南印度，在那裡遇見年輕的在家居士善財，指示他去見某位善知識，這位善知識又引導善財去見另一位善知識。就這樣，善財依次遇見並受教於五十位男性和女性、兒童和成人、人類和天界、出家和在家的善知識，其中包括圍繞佛陀的夜天女以及佛陀的妻子和母親。善知識序列中的最後三位是彌勒菩薩、文殊菩薩和普賢菩薩。普賢菩薩的宣誦《普賢菩薩行願讚》結束了這部經。