The Lankavatara Sutra
毘尼比丘分，云何何因緣？
What are the divisions of vinaya (discipline) and bhikshus, and by what causes?
彼諸最勝子，緣覺及聲聞，
Those most excellent sons, pratyekabuddhas and shravakas,
何因百變易？云何百無受？
by what cause are there hundred-fold changes? How are there hundred-fold non-receptions?
云何世俗通？云何出世間？
What is worldly attainment? What is transcending the world?
云何為七地？唯願為演說。
What is the seventh stage? I beg you to explain it.
僧伽有幾種？云何為壞僧？
How many kinds of sangha are there? What is a corrupted sangha?
云何醫方論，是復何因緣？
What is the treatise on medicine, and by what cause does it arise?
何故大牟尼，唱說如是言：
Why does the Great Muni proclaim such words:
『迦葉、拘留孫、拘那含是我？』
'Kashyapa, Krakucchanda and Kanakamuni are I myself'?
何故說斷常，及與我無我？
Why does he speak of annihilation and permanence, and of self and no-self?
何不一切時，演說真實義，
Why does he not at all times expound the true meaning,
而復為眾生，分別說心量？
but instead explains the measure of mind separately for beings?
何因男女林，訶梨阿摩勒，
By what cause are there forests of men and women, harita, amalaka,
雞羅及鐵圍，金剛等諸山，
Mount Cakravada, the Iron Encircling Mountains, the Vajra Mountains and others,
無量寶莊嚴，仙闥婆充滿？」
adorned with countless jewels, filled with sages and gandharvas?"
無上世間解，聞彼所說偈，
The Unsurpassed Knower of the World, hearing the verses he recited,
大乘諸度門，諸佛心第一。
said: the many gates of the Great Vehicle, the mind of the Buddhas is foremost.
(此心如樹木堅實心，非念慮心也)。
(This mind is like the solid heartwood of a tree, not the mind of thought and deliberation.)
「善哉善哉問！
"Well asked, well asked!
大慧善諦聽，我今當次第，
Mahamati, listen carefully, I shall now in order
如汝所問說。生及與不生，
speak according to what you have asked. Birth and non-birth,
涅槃空剎那，趣至無自性，
nirvana, emptiness, the instant, moving toward no self-nature,
佛諸波羅蜜。佛子與聲聞，
the Buddha's paramitas (reaching the other shore). Sons of the Buddha and shravakas,
緣覺諸外道，及與無色行，
pratyekabuddhas, the outsiders, and formless practice,
如是種種事。須彌巨海山，
all such matters. Sumeru, the great seas, the mountains,
洲渚剎土地，星宿及日月，
islands, lands, earth, the constellations and sun and moon,
外道天修羅，解脫自在通，
outsiders, gods, asuras, liberation, sovereignty, powers,
力禪三摩提，滅及如意足，
strengths, dhyana, samadhi (equipoise), cessation and the bases of spiritual power,
覺支及道品，諸禪定無量。
the limbs of awakening and the factors of the path, countless meditative concentrations.
諸陰身往來，正受滅盡定。
The aggregates, coming and going of bodies, right reception, the cessation attainment.
三昧起心說，心意及與識，
Rising from samadhi, the teaching of mind, mind, manas and consciousness,
無我法有五，自性想所想，
no-self, the five kinds of dharma, self-nature, thought and the thought-of,
及與現二見，乘及諸種性，
and the two views before the eyes, vehicles and the various lineages,
金銀摩尼等，一闡提大種，
gold, silver, mani and the like, icchantikas, the great elements,
荒亂及一佛，智爾焰得向。
disorder and the One Buddha, wisdom, the knowable, and attaining the direction.
眾生有無有，象馬諸禽獸，
The being and non-being of beings, elephants, horses and the various birds and beasts,
云何而捕取？譬因成悉檀，
how they are caught; simile, the establishing of causes, siddhanta,
及與作所作，欝林迷惑通。
and the doer and the done, thick forests, delusion, attainment.
心量不現有，諸地不相至，
The measure of mind does not manifest as existing, the stages cannot reach each other,
百變百無受。醫方工巧論，
the hundred-fold changes, the hundred-fold non-receptions. The treatises on medicine and crafts,
伎術諸明處，諸山須彌地，
the arts and fields of learning, the mountains, Sumeru and the earth,
巨海日月量。下中上眾生，
the measures of the great seas, sun and moon. The beings of low, middle and high grade,
身各幾微塵，一一剎幾塵，
how many particles of dust in each body, how many particles in each land,
弓弓數有幾，肘步拘樓舍，
how many bows and bow-lengths, cubits, paces, krosa (a unit of distance),
半由延由延。兔毫窓塵蟻，
half-yojanas and yojanas. A rabbit's hair, a mote in a window, an ant,
羊毛䵃麥塵，缽他幾䵃麥，
sheep's wool, a grain of barley, how many barley grains in a pattha,
阿羅䵃麥幾，獨籠那佉梨，
how many barley grains in an adhaka, a drona, a nakhali,
勒叉及舉利，乃至頻婆羅，
a laksha and a kuli, up to bimbara,
是各有幾數。為有幾阿㝹，
and the number of each of these. How many anu (the smallest particles)
名舍梨沙婆。幾舍梨沙婆，
make what is called a sharisha-bava? How many sharisha-bava
名為一賴提。幾賴提摩沙，
make what is called one rathi? How many rathi make a masha,
為摩沙陀那。幾摩沙陀那，
and a masha-dhana? How many masha-dhana
名為陀那羅。復幾陀那羅，
make what is called a dhanara? And how many dhanara
為迦梨沙那。幾迦梨沙那，
make a karsha-shana? How many karsha-shana
為成一波羅。此等積聚相，
join into one pala? The marks of these accumulations,
幾波羅彌樓。是等所應請，
how many pala make a Meru? These are what should be asked,
何須問餘事？聲聞辟支佛，
why ask about other things? Shravakas, pratyekabuddhas,
佛及最勝子，身各有幾數。
Buddhas and the most excellent sons, how many in number are their bodies?
何故不問此？火焰幾阿㝹，
Why do you not ask about these? How many anu are in a flame,
風阿㝹復幾，根根幾阿㝹，
how many anu are in wind, how many anu are in each sense root,