On to Lines of Experience Verse 6
I make obeisance to the Head of the Sakya Clan, Gautama Buddha. Your
body is the product of ten million virtues and the two perfect accomplishments
(of the realization of the meaning of Sunyata (1)
and the attainment of Bodhicitta (2)).
Your speech fulfils the hopes of endless numbers of sentient beings (by
teaching them Dharma (3)).
Your mind, being omniscient, sees all knowable phenomena in the way they
exist as void.
I make obeisance to Maitreya and to Manjusri, the two chief disciples
of the peerless teacher Gautama Buddha. Your incarnations manifest themselves
in the countless worlds, having taken on the responsibility to further
the action of the speech of Buddha (by teaching the Dharma to help liberate
all sentient beings from samsara (4)).
I make obeisance at the feet of the two Jewels of the Southern Continents
(5),
Nagarjuna and Asanga, famous throughout the Three Realms (6).
You have made commentaries explaining correctly the most difficult to fathom
Mother of the Buddhas, the "Prajnaparamita Sutras." (7)
I make obeisance to Atisa, the keeper of the treasure of the teachings.
Your faultless abridgement of their essential points, the "Bodhipathapradipa,"
summarizes and synthesizes the two major carriages of the Great Vehicle
Mahayana -- the paths of the profound insight of Sunyata and the
widespread action of Bodhicitta. This (it does for the first time since
the "Prajnaparamita Sutras" of Buddha and) is in accordance with
the proper lineages (from Buddha to Manjusri to Nagarjuna on the one side,
and from Buddha to Maitreya to Asanga on the other.)
I make obeisance with great reverence to my Gurus. (8)
Motivated by loving-kindness, you make the Dharma clear by teaching it
with skilful and effective means. (9)
You are the best bridge for crossing the ocean of samsara to Liberation
for those fortunate to receive your teachings. You are the eyes for your
disciples to see and understand all the profound scriptural texts.
