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The Precious Scroll of Incense Mountain, Part 2 121 The youth and the maiden bowed and promptly replied: ‘‘Your Highness, please listen to what we have to say. The singing and chanting are from ghosts escaping their pain And going off to heaven, to roam in freedom and in joy. In front of us you see the throne hall of King Yama, It’s in King Yama’s hall that the music is being played.’’ When the princess heard this, her heart was filled with joy, And she straightway entered into the Yiyang Hall. The princess and the consorts of the Ten Kings enjoyed themselves in the hells. That is because all the yakṡas had been turned into immortal lads and jade maidens, and all earth-prisons had become the saintly realms of the halls of heaven. The Ten Kings were greatly pleased and invited her to stay so they might venerate her and provide for her. They would properly purify a ritual area, arrange for a Dharma-throne, listen to the sutras and accept the precepts, in order to be freed from the hells. The princess agreed to their request, and ascended the precious throne. She instructed the multitude of ghosts to all approach the Dharma-altar, cleanse and purify themselves of the three karmas, and listen to and accept the five precepts. 20 ‘‘Once you have accepted the five precepts, you will forever be disciples of the Buddha. If you are able to keep to the fast for a single day, 21 it is better than accumulating three ounces of yellow gold, as later you will receive one full year of pure blessings. And if you in turn can persuade other people to recite the name of the Buddha, then that is better than building a seven-story precious pagoda. And after your human life has come to an end, Amitābha will personally come to lead you to his land of Ultimate Bliss, where you realize No-being and generate forbearance. This is my advice to you all, rulers of the shade: When will your rule over the Realm of Shade come to an end? When will you be done with your impartial verdicts? From the universal Dharma originates the thought of self and other. When one’s enlightenment is fully complete, one achieves the unsurpassable Way.’’ When the kings heard her words on the Dharma, they issued an order to all their offices to release all the ghostly criminals so they might come and listen to the Dharma. One moment seated in the lotus position in King Yama’s hall, The next moment standing all alone atop Mt. Sumeru’s peak.
122 ThePreciousScrollofIncenseMountain,Part2 Namo Guanshiyin pusa At the moment the princess ascended the Dharma-throne, Those who accepted the precepts were reborn in heaven. The princess had not yet finished preaching the Dharma, When the drum in front of the hall was sounded repeatedly. The infernal judges in charge of cases all came to report, After eight bows to the kings they submitted their views: ‘‘Since the moment the princess ascended the Dharma-throne, She saved each and every sinner in all of our hells. The new ghosts who are brought in are all released, Good and evil is discarded, without any distinction! If you keep the princess here so she will stay forever, We might as well close the three paths and earth-prisons!’’ 22 When the princess had ascended the Dharma-throne and preached the Dharma in the realm of the hells, her audience wanted only to hear more, but suddenly the great ministers of the three pathways and the officials of the eighteen prisons ascended the hall of darkness and reported to the Ten Kings: ‘‘Ever since the princess has arrived here, this place is not the Realm of Shade anymore! All our instruments of torture have been turned into lotus flowers, and all the sinful ghosts have been released to be reborn in heaven. Since ancient times it has been the rule that if you have heavenly halls, you also have earth-prisons. The retribution of good and evil brilliantly accords with principle. Who would want to practice goodness if there were no earth-prisons? Your servants dare not refrain from reporting. We implore Your Royal Highnesses to see the princess off so she may quickly return to life.’’ King Yama agreed to their proposal, and promptly issued an edict, in which he notified all of the offices to send the third princess off, so that she might return to the world of men. King Yama had only to nod and she secretly grasped his intention, As soon as the yakṡas started to speak, she caught their meaning. Namo Guanshiyin pusa When King Yama heard this, his face showed his pleasure, He ordered a notification to be sent out as fast as a cloud:
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