Tha Ap 311Buddhasaññaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

309. Buddhasaññaka

Walt 2759-2760 In a dream I saw the Buddha ,

the World’s Leader, Siddhattha,

like the rising hundred-rayed sun ,

bright but cool like a rayless sun,

the World’s Best, the Bull among Men,

who’d gone into the forest then .

Bringing pleasure to my heart there,

I approached the Well-Gone Buddha . Verse 1-2

Walt 2761 In the ninety-four aeons since

I obtained that perception then,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

the fruit of perceiving Buddhas. Verse 3

Walt 2762 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Buddhasaññaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Buddhasaññaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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