三菩萨修兜率
[6] Three Bodhisattvas [Who] Cultivated [To Reach] Tuṣita
智者《十疑论》云：「三菩萨修兜率，一名无著，二名世亲，三名师子觉。约云：『先生兜率见弥勒者，即来相报。』
[Great Master] Zhìzhě [in his] Treatise [On] Ten Doubts [About Pure Land]《净土十疑论》says, ‘Three Bodhisattvas cultivated [to reach] Tuṣita [Heaven’s Inner Court (内院), with the] first named Asaṅga, [the] second named Vasubandhu, [and the] third named Buddhasiṃha [i.e. Lion Awakening]. [They made an] agreement, saying, “He [who is] first born [in] Tuṣita, [who] sees Maitreya [Bodhisattva, will] immediately come [to] report [this to the] others.”
师子觉先亡，数年无报。次世亲亡，三年乃来报云：『天日长。我生兜率，礼弥勒佛，听其说法，即来相报，已三年矣。』
Buddhasiṃha first died, [for] several years without [a] report. Next, Vasubandhu died, [whom] three years [later], then came [to] report, saying, “[That] heaven’s day [is] long. [When] I [was] born [in] Tuṣita, prostrated [to] Maitreya, [and] listened [to] him speak [the] Dharma, then coming [to] report to you, [it was] already three years.”
问：『师子觉如何？』
[Asaṅga] asked, “How [is] Buddhasiṃha?”
云：『生兜率外院，恋著天乐，即不曾见佛。』」
[Vasubandhu] said, “[He was] born [in] Tuṣita’s Outer Court, [and is] attached [to] heavenly joys, thus not yet seeing [the future] Buddha.”‘
且以菩萨而修兜率，犹有恋著不见佛者，此轮回之根本。是知兜率难修有坠，非比西方易修无坠也。
Moreover, with Bodhisattvas then cultivating [to reach] Tuṣita, those [who] still have attachment [do] not see [the future] Buddha, [with] this [as the] root of [further] rebirth. [From this] is [it] known [that for reaching] Tuṣita, [it is] difficult [to] cultivate, [and] has [those] falling, not comparable [with reaching the] Western [Pure Land, which is] easy [to] cultivate, [and] without falling.
智者又云：「有见释迦佛而不得道者，若修西方见阿弥陀佛，无不得道。」
[Great Master] Zhìzhě also said, ‘[There] are those [who] saw Śākyamuni Buddha, yet not attaining [the] path. If cultivating [to reach the] Western [Pure Land to] see Amitā[bha] Buddha, [it is] without [those] not attaining [the] path.’
则释迦佛与阿弥陀佛其愿力所加，固不同矣。
Thus [with] Śākyamuni Buddha and Amitā[bha] Buddha, [with] their vows’ power, those added, [they are] certainly not [the] same.
故大慈菩萨云：「十方三世佛，阿弥陀第一。」念其名号，消一切罪，遂生净土。宜哉。
Thus [did] Dàcí [i.e. Great Loving-kindness] Bodhisattva say, ‘[Of the] ten directions’ three periods’ Buddhas, Amitā[bha] Buddha [is the] foremost.’ [With] mindfulness [of] his name, eliminating all transgressions, thereupon [with] birth [in his] Pure Land. [There should be] no doubt.
Namo Amituofo : Translation by Shen Shi’an
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