ABSTRACT
1. Then, having revealed the play of the inconceivable continuum of reality, the Bhagavat Vairocana desired to reveal the inconceivable sphere of experience (gocara) as well. From the uṣṅīṣa on his head, he emitted a web of light rays called the Dharma Treasury, with which he illumined the darkness of an infinite number of minds in the realms of beings. Then that great arrayed web of light rays encircled all the Tathāgatas who were abiding in the palace of the continuum of reality, the transformation and vast play of the Tathāgata, which was as extensive as the realm of space, and then illumined all the circles of the assemblies of all beings and brought about the complete protection of all realms of beings without remainder. It both satisfied those beings born in the hell, animal and ghosts states of existence, and it also transformed the worlds of gods and humans to include them within the matrix of the Tathāgata, the Ghana-vyūha [realm]. Then it also transformed the inconceivable continuum of reality with the outflow of the transformational power of the Tathāgata's merit. Since the Bhagavat had not completed the task of the continuum of reality, he entered the samādhi of the great King of Mandalas, the matrix which protects infinite realms of beings, (207b) called the “Treasury from which Emerges the Matrix of Great Compassion”.
