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Sunday, June 3, 2018

Two translations of a passage

Kempon Hokke translation:

“This earthly world is the eternal pure land, unaffected by the three calamities and the four cycles of change. In this world, the Buddha transcends birth and death, and his disciples are also such. This is no other than the three thousand worlds, the three realms of existence within our very own being.”

SGI translation:

“The saha world Shakyamuni Buddha revealed in the “Life Span” chapter is the eternal pure land, impervious to the three calamities and to the cycle of the four kalpas. The Buddha neither has entered into extinction in the past nor will be born in the future. And the same is true of his disciples. This means that their lives are perfectly endowed with the three thousand worlds, that is, with the three realms of existence.”

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