第六 娑婆是中有仏名釈迦牟尼仏の事
Point Six, regarding the passage
「此の無量無辺百千万億阿僧祇の世界を過ぎて国有り、娑婆と名づく。是の中に仏有す。釈迦牟尼と名づけたてまつる」
“Beyond these immeasurable, boundless hundreds,thousands, ten thousands, millions of asamkhya worlds there is a land named sahā, and in it a Buddha named Shakyamuni.”
御義口伝に云く、本化弘通の妙法蓮華経の大忍辱の力を以て弘通するを娑婆と云うなり、
The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings says: The bodhisattvas of the essential teaching employing the power of great forbearance to proclaim and propagate Myoho-renge-kyo is known as sahā.
忍辱は寂光土なり、
Forbearance is the Land of Eternally Tranquil Light.
此の忍辱の心を釈迦牟尼仏と云えり、
This mind of forbearance is called Shakyamuni Buddha.
娑婆とは堪忍世界と云うなり云云。
Sahā means a world in which one must exercise forbearance and learn to endure.
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