若见丛林,
当愿众生,
诸天及人,
所应敬礼。
– 文殊菩萨
(华严经: 净行品: 第61偈)
If seeing a forest monastery,*
[reflect that] ‘May sentient beings,
[by] all heavenly and human beings,
[be] worthy of reverence and veneration.’**
– Manjusri Bodhisattva
(Avatamsaka Sutra: Chapter 11 On Pure Practices: Verse 61)
* with monastics
** just as good monastics are