Chapter XI · NOTES.
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“Or why should I, valorous man, The ocean seek to cross alone? Omniscience first will I achieve, And men and gods convey across.
“Since now I make this earnest wish, In presence of this Best of Men, Omniscience sometime I’ll achieve, And multitude convey across.
“I’ll rebirth’ circling stream arrest, Destroy existence’s three modes; I’ll climb the sides of Doctrine’s ship, And men and gods convey across.”
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Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · This is a very rough summary of the doctrine that is known as Parivarta and expounded in the Avatamsaka Sûtra, fas. 21-22 where ten forms ofNote 2 · Warren’s Buddhism in Translations, the “Story of Sumedha,” pp. 14-15. (return)Note 3 · The full title of the work is A Treatise on the Transcendentality of Bodhicitta (Nanjo, No. 1304). It is a little book consisting of seven oNote 4 · Its full title is A Discourse on the Non-duality of the Mahâyâna-Dharmadhâtu. It consists of less than a dozen pages in ordinary Chinese larNote 5 · This work was translated by Kumârajîva into Chinese at the beginning of the fifth century A.D. It is divided into two fascicles, each consisNote 6 · The above is a liberal rendering of the first part of the Chapter III, in Vasubandhu’s Bodhicitta. (return)Note 7 · The distinction between the five indriyas and the five balas seems to be rather redundant. But the Hindu philosophers usually distinguish acNote 8 · The ten powers of the Buddha are: (1) The mental power which discriminates between right and wrong, (2) The knowledge of the retribution of Note 9 · Literally, “to advance against.” (return)Note 10 · Cf. Beal’s translation in the S. B. E. Vol XIX. pp. 306-307, vs. 2095-2101. Beal utterly misunderstands the Chinese original. (return)Note 11 · From A. J. Edmunds’s translation of Dhammapada. (return)Note 12 · P. 225. Beal’s translation is not always reliable, and I would have my own if the Chinese original were at all accessible. (return)Note 13 · Along this Bodhisattvaic devotion, however, there was another current of religious thought and practice running among the followers of Buddh