Venerable Subhūti having asked this, the Blessed One then said to him, “Subhūti, just as I teach the perfection of wisdom in this world system of Patient Endurance, in immeasurable and countless world systems of the eastern direction, too, the tathāgatas, arhats, perfectly complete buddhas teach this very perfection of wisdom to bodhisattva great beings. Subhūti, just as I teach the perfection of wisdom in this world system of Patient Endurance, in immeasurable and countless world systems of the southern direction, too, the tathāgatas, arhats, perfectly complete buddhas teach this very perfection of wisdom to bodhisattva great beings. Subhūti, just as I teach the perfection of wisdom in this world system of Patient Endurance, in immeasurable and countless world systems of the western direction, too, the tathāgatas, arhats, perfectly complete buddhas teach this very perfection of wisdom to bodhisattva great beings. Subhūti, just as I teach the perfection of wisdom in this world system of Patient Endurance, in immeasurable and countless world systems of the northern direction, too, the tathāgatas, arhats, perfectly complete buddhas teach this very perfection of wisdom to bodhisattva great beings. Subhūti, just as I teach the perfection of wisdom in this world system of Patient Endurance, in immeasurable and countless world systems of the northeastern intermediate direction, too, the tathāgatas, arhats, perfectly complete buddhas teach this very perfection of wisdom to bodhisattva great beings. Subhūti, just as I teach the perfection of wisdom in this world system of Patient Endurance, in immeasurable and countless world systems of the southeastern intermediate direction, too, the tathāgatas, arhats, perfectly complete buddhas teach this very perfection of wisdom to bodhisattva great beings. Subhūti, just as I teach the perfection of wisdom in this world system of Patient Endurance, in immeasurable and countless world systems of the southwestern intermediate direction, too, the tathāgatas, arhats, perfectly complete buddhas teach this very perfection of wisdom to bodhisattva great beings. Subhūti, just as I teach the perfection of wisdom in this world system of Patient Endurance, in immeasurable and countless world systems of the northwestern intermediate direction, too, the tathāgatas, arhats, perfectly complete buddhas teach this very perfection of wisdom to bodhisattva great beings. Subhūti, just as I teach the perfection of wisdom in this world system of Patient Endurance, in immeasurable and countless world systems of the direction of the nadir, too, the tathāgatas, arhats, perfectly complete buddhas teach this very perfection of wisdom to bodhisattva great beings. Subhūti, just as I teach the perfection of wisdom in this world system of Patient Endurance, in immeasurable and countless world systems of the direction of the zenith, too, the tathāgatas, arhats, perfectly complete buddhas teach this very perfection of wisdom to bodhisattva great beings.”
When this teaching on the perfection of wisdom was being delivered, twelve billion gods and human beings developed the acceptance that phenomena are nonarising, Also, when the blessed lord buddhas taught this perfection of wisdom in world systems in all the ten directions, an immeasurable, countless number of beings set their minds on unsurpassed, perfectly complete enlightenment.
This completes the thirteenth chapter, “Subhūti,” from The Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines.