Gosho 御義口伝 下 Orally Conveyed Doctrines.

第六 娑婆(しゃば)是(ぜ)中(ちゅう)有(う)仏(ぶつ) 名(みょう)釈迦(しゃか)牟(む)尼(に)仏(ぶつ)の事

Point Six, regarding the passage “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.”

The sixth. There is Buddha in the saha world. He is called Shakyamuni Buddha.

御義口伝に云はく、本化(ほんげ)弘通の妙法蓮華経を大忍辱(だいにんにく)の力を以て弘(ぐ)通(つう)するを娑婆(しゃば)と云ふなり。

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.

The Orally Conveyed Doctrines say: Saha means the propagation that the authentic bodhisattvas spread Myoho-renge-kyo by the power of the large fortitude.

忍辱は寂光(じゃっこう)土(ど)なり。

Forbearance is the Land of Eternally Tranquil Light.

The fortitude exists in the land of tranquil light.

此(こ)の忍辱の心に釈迦(しゃか)牟(む)尼(に)仏(ぶつ)あり。

This mind of forbearance is called Shakyamuni Buddha.

There is Shakyamuni Buddha in the mind of this fortitude.

娑婆とは堪忍(かんにん)世界と云ふなり云云。

Sahā means a world in which one must exercise forbearance and learn to endure.

Saha means the world of the patience.

つづく Continued

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