..續本文上一頁 reborn among lowly people, as slaves or servants who are always ordered around by others and who never for a moment feel at ease.

　　複次曼殊室利。若諸有情悭貪嫉妒自贊毀他。當墮叁惡趣中。無量千歲受諸劇苦。受劇苦已。從彼命終來生人間。作牛馬駝驢。恒被鞭撻。饑渴逼惱。又常負重隨路而行。或得爲人生居下賤。作人奴婢受他驅役。恒不自在。

　　If such beings, in their former lives as humans, heard the name of the World Honored One, Medicine Master Vaidurya Light Tathagata, and by this good cause are able to remember it and sincerely take refuge with that Buddha, then, by means of the Buddha”s spiritual power, they will be liberated

　　from all sufferings. They will be endowed with keen faculties, and they will be wise and erudite.

　　They will always seek the supreme Dharmas and encounter good friends. They will eternally sever the nets of demons and smash the shell of ignorance. They will dry up the river of afflictions and be liberated from birth, old age, sickness, death, anxiety, grief, suffering, and vexation."

　　若昔人中。曾聞世尊藥師琉璃光如來名號。由此善因今複憶念至心歸依以佛神力衆苦解脫。諸根聰利智慧多聞。恒求勝法常遇善友。永斷魔罥破無明谷禾卵。竭煩惱河解脫一切生老病死憂愁苦惱。

　　"Moreover, Manjushri, there may be beings who delight in perversity and engage in legal disputes, bringing trouble to others as well as themselves.

　　In their actions, speech, and thoughts, they create ever-increasing amounts of evil karma.

　　Never willing to benefit and forgive others, they scheme to harm one another instead.

　　They pray to the spirits of the mountain forests,trees, and graves.

　　They kill living beings in order to make sacrifices of blood and flesh to the yaksha and rakshasa ghosts.

　　複次曼殊室利。若諸有情好喜乖離更相鬥訟惱亂自他。以身語意造作增長種種惡業。展轉常爲不饒益事。互相謀害。告召山林樹冢等神。殺諸衆生取其血肉祭祀藥叉羅刹娑等。

　　They write down the names of their enemies and make images of them, and then they hex those names and images with evil mantras.

　　They summon paralysis ghosts, cast hexes, or command corpse-raising ghosts to kill or injure their enemies.

　　書怨人名作其形像以惡咒術而咒咀之。厭媚蠱道咒起屍鬼。令斷彼命及壞其身。

　　However, if the victims hear the name of Medicine Master Vaidurya Light Tathagata, then all those evil things will lose their power to do harm.

　　The evildoers will become kind to one another.They will attain benefit, peace, and happiness and no longer cherish thoughts of malice, affliction, or enmity.

　　Everyone will rejoice and feel content with what they have. Instead of encroaching upon each other,

　　they will seek to benefit one another."

　　是諸有情若得聞此藥師琉璃光如來名號彼諸惡事悉不能害。一切展轉皆起慈心。利益安樂無損惱意及嫌恨心。各各歡悅于自所受生于喜足。不相侵淩互爲饒益。

　　"Moreover, Manjushri, there may be those among the fourfold assembly of Bhikshus, Bhikshunis, Upasakas and Upasikas, as well as other good men and women of pure faith, who accept and uphold the eight precepts, either for one year or for three months, practicing and studying them.

　　With these good roots, they may vow to be born in the Western Land of Ultimate Bliss where the Buddha of Limitless Life dwells, to hear the Proper Dharma, but their resolve may not be firm.

　　However, if they hear the name of the World Honored One, Medicine Master Vaidurya Light Tathagata, then as the end of their lives draws near, before them will appear eight great Bodhisattvas, whose names are:

　　Manjushri Bodhisattva,

　　The Bodhisattva Who Observes the Sounds of the World,

　　Great Strength Bodhisattva,

　　Inexhaustible Intention Bodhisattva,

　　Jeweled Udumbara Flower Bodhisattva, Medicine King Bodhisattva,

　　Medicine Superior Bodhisattva, and

　　Maitreya Bodhisattva.

　　複次曼殊室利。若有四衆苾刍苾刍尼邬波索迦邬波斯迦。及余淨信善男子善女人等。有能受持八分齋戒。或經一年或複叁月受持學處。以此善根願生西方極樂世界無量壽佛所。聽聞正法而未定者。若聞世尊藥師琉璃光如來名號。

　　Those eight great Bodhisattvas will appear in space to show them the way, and they will naturally be born by transformation in that land, amid precious flowers of a myriad colors.

　　Or they may be born in the heavens due to this cause.

　　Although reborn in the heavens, their original good roots will not be exhausted and so they will not fall into the evil destinies again.

　　臨命終時有八菩…

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