Summary
s.1While the Buddha is in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍada’s Park, he asks Mañjuśrī to teach on the nature of reality. Mañjuśrī’s account upsets some of the monks present in the gathering, who subsequently leave. Nevertheless, by means of an emanation, Mañjuśrī skillfully teaches the distraught monks, who return to Jeta’s Grove to express their gratitude. The monks explain that their obstacle has been a conceited sense of attainment, of which they are now free. At the request of the god Ratnavara, Mañjuśrī then teaches on nonduality and the nature of the bodhisattva. Next, the Buddha prophesies the future awakening of Ratnavara and other bodhisattvas present in the gathering. However, the prophecies cause Pāpīyān, king of the māras, to appear with his army. In a dramatic course of events, Mañjuśrī uses his transformative power on both Pāpīyān and the Buddha’s pious attendant, Śāradvatīputra, forcing both of them to appear in the form of the Buddha himself. He then makes Pāpīyān and Śāradvatīputra teach the profound Dharma with the perfect mastery of buddhahood. Numerous bodhisattvas appear from the four directions, pledging to practice and uphold the sūtra’s teaching. The Buddha grants his blessing for the continuous transmission of the sūtra among bodhisattvas in the future.
s.1佛陀在給孤獨長者園的祇樹林中，要求文殊師利講述現實的自性。文殊師利的說法使在場的一些比丘感到不滿，他們隨後離開了。然而，文殊師利通過化身的方式，巧妙地教導那些困擾的比丘，他們最後回到祇樹林表達感謝。這些比丘解釋說，他們的障礙在於對證得的慢，現在他們已經解脫了這個障礙。應天神寶幢的請求，文殊師利隨後講述了不二和菩薩的自性。接著，佛陀預言了寶幢和其他在場菩薩的未來菩提。然而，這些預言導致魔王惡者出現，帶著他的軍隊。在戲劇性的事件進展中，文殊師利運用他的化身力量影響惡者和佛陀恭敬的侍者舍利弗，強制他們都以佛陀自身的形相出現。他然後讓惡者和舍利弗以佛果的圓滿掌握來宣說深奧的法。眾多菩薩從四方出現，發誓要實踐和維護經的教法。佛陀為經的持續傳承於未來的菩薩之中賜予祝福。