第七十七回 · 即下蓮臺 Down From The Lotus Seat — Journey to the West

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即下蓮臺 Down From The Lotus Seat

如rú來lái即jí下xià蓮lián臺tái，同tóng諸zhū佛fó眾zhòng，徑jìng出chū山shān門mén。又yòu見jiàn阿ā儺nuó、迦jiā葉shè引yǐn文wén殊shū、普pǔ賢xián來lái見jiàn，二èr菩pú薩sà對duì佛fó禮lǐ拜bài。如rú来lái即jí下xià莲lián台tái，同tóng诸zhū佛fó众zhòng，径jìng出chū山shān门mén。又yòu见jiàn阿ā傩nuó、迦jiā叶shè引yǐn文wén殊shū、普pǔ贤xián来lái见jiàn，二èr菩pú萨sà对duì佛fó礼lǐ拜bài。

逐句解 Line by line

如rú來lái即jí下xià蓮lián臺tái，同tóng諸zhū佛fó眾zhòng，徑jìng出chū山shān門mén。如rú来lái即jí下xià莲lián台tái，同tóng诸zhū佛fó众zhòng，径jìng出chū山shān门mén。

The Tathagata came down at once from his lotus seat, and with all the Buddhas and the assembly went straight out of the mountain gate.

即, at once. He was expounding scripture when Wukong arrived; now he leaves the throne and walks out of the gate, and the whole assembly goes with him.

又yòu見jiàn阿ā儺nuó、迦jiā葉shè引yǐn文wén殊shū、普pǔ賢xián來lái見jiàn，二èr菩pú薩sà對duì佛fó禮lǐ拜bài。又yòu见jiàn阿ā傩nuó、迦jiā叶shè引yǐn文wén殊shū、普pǔ贤xián来lái见jiàn，二èr菩pú萨sà对duì佛fó礼lǐ拜bài。

And there were Ananda and Kasyapa bringing Manjushri and Samantabhadra to appear, and the two Bodhisattvas made their reverence to the Buddha.

The summons has been answered while the genealogy was being told, which is the book quietly running two things at once. 禮拜 is to make the formal obeisance.

總評 Commentary

The Buddha simply gets up and goes, and the size of that is easy to miss. He has not sent a deputy or issued an order. He is walking out of Vulture Peak to deal with a bird.

And the two Bodhisattvas are already at the gate. The errand was sent while the creation of the world was being recounted, so the timing tells you the genealogy was never a delay — it was what the Buddha did while he waited for the owners to arrive.