Summary
s.1While the Buddha Śākyamuni is residing at Vulture Peak Mountain, in the nearby city of Rājagṛha the accomplished illusionist Bhadra hatches a scheme to humiliate the Buddha and disprove his omniscience in order to win over the people of Magadha. The failure of Bhadra’s plan, in which he conjures the illusion of a resplendent courtyard that, to his dismay, cannot be undone, culminates in a series of surreal and magnificent visions that convince Bhadra of the superiority of the Buddha’s powers. This sūtra presents a colorful and often humorous narrative and contains teachings on illusion, emptiness, and the distinction between the illusionist’s mundane abilities and the Buddha’s miraculous display. The Buddha also teaches Bhadra forty-three sets of four qualities that together constitute the bodhisattva path.
s.1釋迦牟尼佛住在鷲峰山，附近王舍城裡有一位成就的幻師仁賢，他設計了一個陰謀，想要羞辱佛陀並駁斥他的一切智，以此來贏得摩揭陀人民的信服。在仁賢的計畫中，他變幻出了一座光彩奪目的院落，但令他沮喪的是這個幻化無法消除。這個失敗最終導致了一系列超現實而宏偉的景象顯現，使仁賢確信佛陀的力量更加殊勝。這部經講述了一個色彩豐富且時常幽默的故事，包含了關於幻化、空和幻師的世俗能力與佛陀神通妙用之區別的教法。佛陀還為仁賢教示了四十三組四德法，這些德法合在一起構成了菩薩道。