Canonical Classics ← 第四十二回
第四十二回
shèngyīnqínbàinánhǎi
guānyīnshànhónghái

The Great Sage, Diligent and Earnest, Bows at the South Sea · Guanyin, Compassionate and Kind, Binds Red Boy

法力無邊
模式 Mode Read Study
拼音 Pinyin Off
字體 Script
原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition 含詞賦 With rhapsody

法力無邊 Power Without Bound

zhèngshìzhèngshì

néngtōngbiànshājièguǎngbiānshēnnéngtōngbiànshājiè广guǎngbiānshēn

逐句解 Line by line

zhèngshì zhèngshì

Truly it was:

正是 — the closing verse-tag.

néngtōngbiànshājièguǎngbiānshēn néngtōngbiànshājiè广guǎngbiānshēn

A single word can reach through sand-grain worlds; / vast and boundless, deep is the power of the Law.

遍沙界 — pervading worlds numberless as the sands of the Ganges. The couplet seals the chapter on the Dharma's boundless reach.


總評 Commentary

The single couplet that seals the chapter states its theme plainly: a single word can reach through sand-grain worlds; vast and boundless, deep is the power of the Law. It gathers the whole arc — the vase that held a sea, the flood that made a paradise, the fillet that tamed a demon — into one assertion of the Dharma's boundless reach, where a mere syllable accomplishes what armies and fire could not. After the long comedy and the violence, the verse restores the register of the sacred: the Bodhisattva's power is not spectacle but the deep, quiet omnipotence of the Law.