Daśadharmakasūtra/Full text
While the Buddha is dwelling on Vulture Peak Mountain, the bodhisattva King Precious Moonlight of Pure Virtue asks him what it means to enter the Mahāyāna, and the Buddha responds with a teaching on ten qualities that describe a bodhisattva who has done so. On the topic of the ninth quality, the Buddha teaches on ten events from his life, revealing them to be merely the display of his skill in means and for the purpose of instructing beings. Māra then approaches Vulture Peak Mountain with his army, intending to attack the Buddha, but the bodhisattva King Precious Moonlight of Pure Virtue miraculously instills in him a change of heart. Māra confesses his evil intentions and asks why the Buddha calls him “wicked.” The Buddha explains that he uses harsh speech to discipline Māra, who is like a beloved but unruly only child, just as he always tames beings using the appropriate means. (Source: 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha)
| Reference | Daśadharmakasūtra [दशधर्मकसूत्र]. 'phags pa chos bcu pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Ten Dharmas (84000)]. Translated by Buddhaśānta, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Saṅghabhadra. Kangyur, RKTSK 53 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=53&typ=1. |
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| People | Buddhaśānta, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi |
