Summary
s.1In Veṇuvana, outside Rājagṛha, Pūrṇa Maitrāyaṇīputra asks the Buddha about the conduct of bodhisattvas practicing on the path to awakening. The Buddha replies by describing the attitudes that bodhisattvas must possess as well as their benefits. Then, at the request of Maudgalyāyana, the Buddha recounts several of his past lives in which he himself practiced bodhisattva conduct. At the end of the teaching, the Buddha instructs the assembly about how to deal with specific objections to his teachings that outsiders might raise after he himself has passed into nirvāṇa.
s.1在竹林園外王舍城，富樓那彌多羅尼子向佛陀提問關於菩薩在通往菩提的道路上修行的行為。佛陀回答時，描述了菩薩必須具備的態度及其利益。然後，應目犍連的請求，佛陀講述了他自己過去多生中修行菩薩行的故事。在法教的最後，佛陀教導眾生如何面對在他自己進入涅槃後，外人可能對他的法教提出的具體質疑。