HS - The Great Light

How grand, the Great Light,
The vigorous Unsurpassed Hero,
Who appears in the world
To help the confused.

The Buddha observes all beings
With a heart of great compassion,
Seeing them in the three realms of existence
Suffering over and over.

Except for the Truly Enlightened,
The Honored Guide, full of virtue,
There is none who can rescue
All human and heavenly beings.

If the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
Did not appear in the world,
There would not be a single creature
Who could have peace and ease.

The Buddha, rightly awakened,
As well as sages and Arhants,
Appear in the world,
Able to bestow happiness on beings.

If someone sees the Buddha,
That is gaining great benefit;
Hearing the name Buddha and developing faith
Is a monument in the world.

We see the World Honored Ones
And consider it a great boon;
Hearing such a wonderful teaching,
We shall attain enlightenment.

The bodhisattvas, in the past,
By the spiritual power of Buddha,
Attained the pure eye of wisdom
And perceived the realms of the Buddhas.

Now we see Vairocana
And grow doubly in pure faith.
Buddhas knowledge is boundless
And cannot be fully explained.

Even if the Bodhisattvas
Such as Supreme Wisdom, and I, Stable Wisdom,
Were to speak for countless eons,
We could not tell it all.