Mountain Sea Wisdom Unrestricted Power King
Mountain Sea Wisdom Unrestricted Power King
[山海慧自在通王如来] (Skt Sagara-vara-dhara-buddhi-vikriditabhijna; Jpn Sengaie-jizaitsuo-nyorai)
The name that Ananda, one of Shakyamuni Buddha's ten major disciples, will bear when he attains enlightenment, according to Shakyamuni's prediction in the "Prophecies" (ninth) chapter of the Lotus Sutra. The chapter reads: "In a future existence you will become a Buddha with the name Mountain Sea Wisdom Unrestricted Power King Thus Come One... You will offer alms to sixty-two million Buddhas and will guard and uphold their Dharma storehouses, and after that you will attain supreme perfect enlightenment. You will teach and convert bodhisattvas as numerous as twenty thousand ten thousand million Ganges sands and will cause them to attain supreme perfect enlightenment. Your land will be named Ever Standing Victory Banner, its soil will be clean and pure and made of lapis lazuli. The kalpa will be named Wonderful Sound Filling Everywhere. The life span of that Buddha will be immeasurable thousands, ten thousands, millions of asamkhyas of kalpas.
See also Ananda
