Ratnākara on Buddha

Original / Translation (Sanskrit (IAST))

“Ratnākara in Vimalakirti Sutra, Chapter I. As translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, 2000, ISBN: 0231106572.”

English: “The Buddha preaches the Law with a single voice, but each living being understands it in his own way.”

“The Buddha preaches the Law with a single voice, but each living being understands it in his own way.”

Original / Translation (Sanskrit (IAST))

“Ratnākara in Vimalakirti Sutra, Chapter I. As translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, 2000, ISBN: 0231106572.”

English: “Three times you turned the wheel of the Law in the thousand-millionfold world, the wheel that from the first has always been pure.”

“Three times you turned the wheel of the Law in the thousand-millionfold world, the wheel that from the first has always been pure.”

Original / Translation (Sanskrit (IAST))

“Ratnākara in Vimalakirti Sutra, Chapter I. As translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, 2000, ISBN: 0231106572.”

English: “Eyes pure and broad like the blue lotus; mind pure, steeped in meditations; for pure deeds long accumulated, boundless in fame, your quietude guides the assembly-thus we bow our heads. We have seen the great sage work miraculous transformations, showing us all the countless lands in ten directions, the Buddhas expounding the Law therein- every one of these we have seen and heard.”

“Eyes pure and broad like the blue lotus; mind pure, steeped in meditations; for pure deeds long accumulated, boundless in fame, your quietude guides the assembly-thus we bow our heads. We have seen the great sage work miraculous transformations, showing us all the countless lands in ten directions, the Buddhas expounding the Law therein- every one of these we have seen and heard.”