The Stem Array
Meghaśrī
Toh 44-45
Degé Kangyur, vol. 37 (phal chen, ga), folios 274.b–396.a; vol. 38 (phal chen, a), folios 1.b–363.a
- Surendrabodhi
- Vairocanarakṣita
- Bandé Yeshé Dé
- Jinamitra
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Summary
In 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.
Acknowledgements
Translated by Peter Alan Roberts and edited by Emily Bower, who was also the project manager. Ling Lung Chen was consultant for the Chinese, and Tracy Davis copyedited the final draft. The translator would like to thank Patrick Carré and Douglas Osto, who have both spent decades studying and translating this sūtra, for their advice and help.
The translation was completed under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.
The generous sponsorship of Richard and Carol Weingarten; of Jamyang Sun, Manju Chandra Sun and Siqi Sun; and of an anonymous donor, which helped make the work on this translation possible, is most gratefully acknowledged.
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Chapter 45: The Stem Array
Meghaśrī
Then Sudhana, the head merchant’s son, eventually arrived at the land called Rāmāvarānta. Having arrived there, he traveled through the land of Rāmāvarānta. Enjoying the delightful pleasures that arose from his past roots of merit and through the power of vast karma, he came to Sugrīva Mountain. He climbed Sugrīva Mountain and, seeking the bhikṣu Meghaśrī, he went to its eastern side. In the same way, he went to its southern, western, northern, northeastern, southeastern, southwestern, and northwestern sides, looking up and down for the bhikṣu Meghaśrī.
After seven days had passed, he saw the bhikṣu Meghaśrī walking on a plateau340 on the summit of another mountain.
He went to where the bhikṣu Meghaśrī was and bowed his head to the bhikṣu Meghaśrī’s feet. He circumambulated the bhikṣu Meghaśrī, keeping him to his right. He sat before him and with palms pressed together said, “Ārya, I wish to know this: When bodhisattvas have developed the aspiration to the highest, complete enlightenment, how do bodhisattvas train in bodhisattva conduct? How do bodhisattvas practice it? How do bodhisattvas commence in bodhisattva conduct? [F.325.a] How do bodhisattvas practice bodhisattva conduct? How do bodhisattvas perfect bodhisattva conduct? How do they purify it? How do they enter it? How do they attain it? How do they follow it? How do they maintain341 it? How do they increase it? How do bodhisattvas perfect the domain of completely good conduct?
“Ārya, I have heard that you give instruction and teachings to bodhisattvas! Therefore, Ārya, teach me how bodhisattvas set out for the highest, complete enlightenment!”
The bhikṣu Meghaśrī said to Sudhana, the head merchant’s son, “Noble one, it is excellent, excellent, that you have developed the aspiration for the highest, complete enlightenment and are asking about the bodhisattva conduct.
“Noble one, it is like this: these are difficult, extremely difficult—seeking the bodhisattva conduct, seeking the bodhisattva’s scope of activity, seeking the bodhisattva’s pure setting-forth, seeking the bodhisattva’s pure path, seeking the bodhisattva’s pure, vast conduct, seeking the bodhisattva’s pure attainment of the higher cognitions, manifesting the bodhisattva’s liberations, manifesting the bodhisattva’s continuum342 of compassion for the world,343 the bodhisattva’s compliance with the aspirations of beings, [F.325.b] the bodhisattva’s revelation of the gateways to saṃsāra and nirvāṇa, and seeking the bodhisattva’s activities that are unstained by composite defects, noncomposite defects, and fear.
“Noble one, through the power and might of my aspiration, through having the pure eyes of wisdom and the pure eyes of faith, and by looking straight ahead with the illumination of the light of wisdom, perceiving everything before me, the entire unobstructed field of vision, with a sight that is free of all obscuration, with astute observation, with a completely pure field of vision, and with a pure body, and bowing down toward the extent of every direction with a skillful bowing-down of the body, with the power of retaining the clouds of Dharma of all the buddhas, and with the might of the power of retention, I see the tathāgatas in the realms in every direction before me.
“In that way, I see one tathāgata in the eastern direction; I see two buddhas, ten buddhas, a hundred buddhas, a thousand buddhas, a hundred thousand buddhas, ten million buddhas, a billion buddhas, ten thousand million buddhas, a trillion buddhas, a quintillion buddhas, and so on up to limitless, immeasurable, countless, inconceivable, unequaled, infinite, endless, incalculable, and more indescribable than indescribable numbers of buddhas.
“I see tathāgatas as numerous as the atoms in Jambudvīpa, tathāgatas as numerous as the atoms in the world realm of four continents, in the world realm of a thousand four-continent worlds, in the world realm of a million four-continent worlds, and in the world realm of a billion four-continent worlds. [F.326.a]
“I see buddhas as numerous as the atoms in ten buddha realms. I see buddhas as numerous as the atoms in a hundred buddha realms. I see buddhas as numerous as the atoms in a thousand buddha realms. I see buddhas as numerous as the atoms in a hundred thousand buddha realms. I see buddhas as numerous as the atoms in ten million buddha realms. I see buddhas as numerous as the atoms in a billion buddha realms. I see buddhas as numerous as the atoms in ten billion buddha realms. I see buddhas as numerous as the atoms in a trillion buddha realms. I see buddhas as numerous as the atoms in a quintillion buddha realms. I see buddhas as numerous as the atoms in more indescribable than indescribable numbers of buddha realms.
“Just as I see in the east, in the south, in the west, in the north, in the northeast, in the southeast, in the southwest, in the northwest, below, and above, I see one tathāgata and so on up to tathāgatas as numerous as the atoms in more indescribable than indescribable numbers of buddha realms.
“In each direction I see tathāgatas of various colors, of various shapes, with various miraculous powers, with various majestic miracles, with various assemblies of followers, shining with networks of many light rays in many colors, in infinite colors, in an array of different pure buddha realms and palaces, with different kinds of pure lifespans, addressing344 beings in accordance with their aspirations, [F.326.b] manifesting different kinds of miracles through the pure attainment of buddhahood, and resounding with the majestic lion’s roar of the buddhas.
“In that way, noble one, I have attained mindfulness of the buddhas through beholding the aggregation of the knowledge of all objects of perception from all sides.
“But how could I know the conduct or describe the qualities of the pure domain of the infinite345 wisdom of the bodhisattvas who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called the completely radiant domain through seeing before them the domains of all the tathāgatas, all the displays of pure buddha realms and palaces?
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called all beings through their pure vision of the tathāgatas addressing beings346 in accordance with their aspirations.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called the ten strengths347 through following the immeasurable ten strengths of the tathāgatas.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called the Dharma through listening to the Dharma while looking upon clouds of the bodies of all the tathāgatas.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness called the essence of the illumination of the directions through entering an undifferentiated ocean of buddhas in the ocean of all the directions.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called entering the ten directions through perceiving the subtle objects of perception that are the majestic miracles of the tathāgatas.
“They are the ones who have attained the mindfulness of the buddhas called the kalpas through perceiving the vision of never being apart from the tathāgatas of all the kalpas.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called time through never being separated from the companionship of the vision of the tathāgatas of all times. [F.327.a]
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called the realms through perceiving the vision of the superior buddha realms and the unsurpassable bodies of the buddhas.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called the three times through their own motivations and aspiration conjoining within the domains of the tathāgatas of the three times.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called locations through perceiving the vision of the arrival of the succession of the tathāgatas in all locations.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called peace through perceiving in each instant the passing into nirvāṇa of all tathāgatas in all world realms.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called separation through perceiving in one day in all places the departure of all the tathāgatas.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called vastness through perceiving the body of each tathāgata while sitting cross-legged filling the realm of phenomena.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called subtle through discerning the accomplishment348 of the appearance of countless buddhas on the tip of a single hair.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called display through perceiving the vision in one instant of the manifestation of the miracles of the attainment of buddhahood in all world realms. [F.327.b]
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called equality through attaining the radiance of the wisdom and miraculous display of the wheel of the Dharma by all the buddhas who have appeared.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called mind through the vision of their own mind and thoughts attaining the radiance of all the tathāgatas.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called karma through the vision of the images of the karma that has been accumulated by all beings.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called miracles through the direct perception in all directions of the vision of the buddhas miraculously filling the entirety of the realm of phenomena with a vast bed of lotuses.
“They are the ones who have attained the gateway of mindfulness of the buddhas called space through seeing the formation of clouds of the forms of the tathāgatas, resounding with their voices,349 throughout space in the realm of phenomena.
“Depart, noble one. In this southern region there is a district called Sāgaramukha. There dwells a bhikṣu by the name of Sāgaramegha. Go to him and ask him, ‘How does a bodhisattva train in bodhisattva conduct? How does a bodhisattva practice it?’
“Noble one, that kalyāṇamitra will explain it to you.350 He will reveal to you the cause of the accumulation of merit. He will make you understand the level351 of vast accumulation. He will describe the vast power and might of roots of merit. [F.328.a] He will make known to you the vast cause for the accumulation of the aspiration to enlightenment. He will provide the basis for the cause of the great radiance of the Mahāyāna. He will enable in you the vast power of the accumulation of the perfections. He will enable you to purify your entry into the vast ocean of conduct. He will enable you to purify a vast domain of aspirations. He will enable you to develop vast displays that emerge from everywhere. He will augment the vast power of great compassion.”
Then Sudhana, the head merchant’s son, bowed his head to the feet of the bhikṣu Meghaśrī, circumambulated the bhikṣu Meghaśrī a hundred thousand times, keeping him to his right, and, looking back a hundred thousand times, departed from the bhikṣu Meghaśrī. [B28]
Colophon
This was translated and revised by the Indian upādhyāyas Jinamitra and Surendrabodhi and by the chief editor Lotsawa Bandé Yeshé Dé and others.2232
Tibetan Editor’s Colophon
A Multitude of Buddhas is the marvelous essence of the final, ultimate, definitive wheel from among the three wheels of the Sugata’s teaching. It has many other titles, such as The Mahāvaipulya Basket, The Earring, The Lotus Adornment, and so on.
It has seven sections:2233 A Multitude of Tathāgatas,2234 The Vajra Banner Dedication,2235 The Teaching of the Ten Bhūmis,2236 The Teaching of Completely Good Conduct,2237 [F.362.b] The Teaching of the Birth and Appearance of the Tathāgatas,2238 The Transcendence of the World,2239 and Stem Array.2240 These are subdivided into forty-five chapters.
According to Butön Rinpoché and others, it contains thirty-nine thousand and thirty verses, a hundred and thirty fascicles, and an additional thirty verses. In the Tshalpa Kangyur edition there are a hundred and fifteen fascicles, the Denkarma edition has a hundred and twenty-seven fascicles,2241 and present-day editions have various numbers of fascicles.2242
This sūtra was first received from Ārya Nāgārjuna by Paṇḍita Buddhabhadra and Paṇḍita Śikṣānanda (652–710), and they both translated it into Chinese. It is taught that Surendrabodhi and Vairocanarakṣita became principal editors for a Chinese translation.
As for the lineage of the text, there is the lineage from China: The perfect Buddha, Ārya Mañjuśrī, Lord Nāgārjuna, the two paṇḍitas mentioned above, and Heshang Tushun. Then the lineage continued through others until Üpa Sangyé Bum received it from Heshang Gying-ju. Then that lineage was passed on through Lotsawa Chokden and has continued up to the present time.
The lineage from India is as follows:
It was passed from Nāgārjuna to Āryadeva, and then Mañjuśrīkīrti, and so on, until Bari Lotsawa received it from Vajrāsana. It is taught that the lineage then continued through Chim Tsöndrü Sengé, the great Sakya Lord,2243 and so on.
However, I have not seen any other text or history of a translation made by any other lotsawa or paṇḍita other than those listed in the colophon to this translation into Tibetan.
The king of Jangsa Tham2244 had a complete Kangyur made that was based on the Tshalpa Kangyur. At the present time this is known as the Lithang Tshalpa Kangyur (1609–14). I considered this to be a reliable source and so have made it the basis for this edition. However, it has many omissions, accretions, and misspellings, and therefore I have at this time corrected it by seeking out many older editions.
There are variant Indian texts and conflicting translations, and I have not been able to ascertain from them a definitive single meaning or correct words. Nevertheless, this text is nothing but a valid edition.
There are varying translations of terms that have been left unrevised, as there is no contradiction in meaning. For example, it has rgyan instead of bkod pa;2245 ’byam klas instead of rab ’byams;2246 so so yang dag par rig pa instead of tha dad pa yang dag par shes pa;2247 thugs for dgongs pa;2248 [F.363.a] nyin mtshan dang zla ba yar kham mar kham dang instead of nyin mtshan dang yud du yan man dang;2249 and tha snyad instead of rnam par dpyod pa.2250
Sanskrit words have many cases and tenses, so that although the Tibetan lotsawas and paṇḍitas, who had the eyes of the Dharma, translated their meaning, their tenses, cases, and so on are difficult to discern. Those are the majority of the examples of uncertainty, and there are also a few other kinds, but they are nevertheless in accord with Tibetan grammar.
In most texts there are many archaic words, so that the meaning of the translation is not clear, but there is a consistency when those words are all in archaic Tibetan. However, there appears to have occurred in later times a strong adulteration of the text so that there is a mixture of archaic and modern forms. There are also unreliable placements of the shad mark that differentiates clauses, but all these have been left as they are because these faults are few and minor. Therefore, this revision has been diligently edited without becoming analogous to knocking down the ancient megaliths of the southern regions.
May this remain for the entire kalpa within the circle of the Cakravāla Mountains, as bright as the sun and moon, as the glory of the merit of nonsectarian beings and the precious teaching of the Buddha.
This was printed in the water tiger year called dge byed (1722),2251 in the presence of Tenpa Tsering (1678–1738), the divine Dharma king who rules in accordance with the Dharma, who has the vast, superior wealth of the ten good actions, and who is a bodhisattva as a ruler of humans and the source of happiness in the four regions of greater Tibet.
This was written by the attendant Gelong Tashi Wangchuk, who in the process of revision was commanded to become its supervisor.
Ye dharmahetuprabhavā hetun teṣān tathāgato hy avadat. Teṣāñ ca yo nirodha evaṃ vādī mahāśramanaḥ.
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Mahāvyutpatti (bye brag tu rtogs par byed pa chen po). Toh 4346, Degé Tengyur vol. 204 (sna tshogs, co), folios 1.b–131.a.
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Burnouf, Eugene. Le lotus de la bonne loi. Paris: L’Imprimerie Nationale, 1852.
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