I have finished the first draft of my English translation of Guṇabhadra's Chinese translation of
THE SUTRA OF
QUEEN ŚRĪMĀLĀ’S LION’S ROAR
Wherein Is Articulated The Severance Of All Doubts, The Certainty Of The Complete
Meaning, And
The Entrance To The Way Of The One Vehicle
I've written the following dedication for the translation.
Dedication Of The Lion’s Roar
The Lion’s Roar of
the Tathagata pervades the whole universe,
resounding right here
– now.
We give thanks to The
World Honored One,
To Queen Srimala,
to all the
generations and ancestors
of the lineage of the
One Vehicle, and
to all the True
Children of the Tathagata
for protecting and handing
down this Lion’s Roar.
We sincerely and
humbly dedicate the meritorious-virtue
arising from receiving,
maintaining, reading, and reciting
this Lion’s Roar
to all beings
everywhere,
so that they may
Accept the Real Dharma
and directly and
personally be able to hear and proclaim this Lion’s Roar.
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All Buddhas
throughout space and time,
All Awakened Beings,
Great Beings,
The Perfect and
Complete One Vehicle.
Separately, I composed the following verse in praise of the One Vehicle.
Ode to the One Vehicle
Wanderers in
the Way,
Hear the One Vehicle (Ekayana) of the Tathagata’s lion’s
roar.Everyone of the multitude of beings in every case has Buddha Nature
And without exception are led to enter the Way of the One Vehicle.
That One Vehicle
Always abides in the Dharma realm, Always silent and always illuminating.
The immeasurable and innumerable expedient methods
of the Buddha Dharma,
Indeed in every case, are for the reason of the
One Buddha Vehicle.Directly pointing to one’s own mind immediately reveals true nature,
And opens the knowing and seeing of the Buddha.
Great master
Bodhidharma transmitted the lineage of the One Vehicle of Southern India
Without self and without other, With the worldly and the sacred one and the same,
Only the Bodhidharma lineage transmits the inheritance by means of mind.
The mind is the fountainhead of the Dharma.
Grreat Master Huineng instructed to use
establishing no thought as the lineage.
Those who see
the essence of no thought see the lineage,Then thought after thought in every case is the One Buddha Vehicle.
If that mind is entirely extinguished,
There is no vehicle as well as someone in the vehicle.
If you
want to choose the One Vehicle,
do not
hate the six dusts. All things are completely the evidentiary things of the One Mind.
The One Mind is completely the One Mind of all things.
All things completely then are True Mind.
By flowing unobstructed, consequently all things are wonderful medicine.
The true mind
of root enlightenment is like the brightness of the mirror.
There are no appearances that can be obtained.Therefore all things are like appearances in the mirror.
The essence of the one true heart-mind
Is indeed one’s own essence of true suchness.
That which is Dharma knows one’s own nature.
That which is Dharma knows the real truth.That which is Dharma knows the One Vehicle.
In every case consider the Dharma of the One Vehicle as the real truth
The deep necessarily includes the shallow;
the shallow does not reach the deep.Likewise, the One Vehicle necessarily includes the various vehicles;
While the various vehicles do not reach the One Vehicle
Because the various vehicles immediately are the One Vehicle,
Those who gain the One Vehicle
Gain the unexcelled unified equality-enlightenment (anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi),
Always abiding in the Dharma-realm,
Able to touch and yet immediately to pass through.
