intention from the ancient time, and then makes
up the excellent mind in the "avidya" shell
accompanied with defilements (sa^mkle'sa). He
had abandoned his wealth and life for seeking
the Buddha-praj~naa through the highest effort,
and finally he had gotten the perfect
Enlightenment. Therefore, I should encourtage
myself and do more practices., It means that I
should not despite myself and produce the shrunk
mind."
The above statement in the PPHV belongs to the
First "cittauttaapana" (第一练磨心 ), one of the
Three "citta-uttaapanaas" (三练磨心 ) , whose
technical terms are borrowed by Kuei-chi from MS
Mahaayaanasa^mgraha (摄大乘论 ),21 but he also has
reconstructed its theories in the PPHV. Therefore
the "avalokite'svara-bodhisattva" in the above First
"citta-uttaapana" represents not only the living
being (有情众生 )mentioning in MS, but also the
"purusa-[damya-saarathi]" ([ 调御丈夫 ])mentioning
in VMSVy [s-k]22. It means that the
"avalokite'svara-bodhisattva not only has already
attained the perfect enlightenment as the
"puru.sa-damya-saarathi", one of the Ten Buddha'
Synonyms, 23 but also always lives in this evil
world to carry out the welfare works for all the
living beings by the power of his vow stemming from
his great compassion. These theories are mentioned
in his commentary of Saddharma-p.u.n.dariikaa-suutra
(法华玄赞 ), 24 in which Samantabhadra-[bodhisattva]
(普贤 [ 菩萨 ])also is mentioned. And the other
famous Mu~nju'srii-bodhisattva (文殊菩萨 )'s
theories are introduced in Tun-lun (遁伦 ) 's
commentary of YCBh (瑜伽论记 ).25
Anyway according to the theories of LAS, the
above "avalokite'svara", "Samantabhadra" and
"Mu~nju'sri" can be called the
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