འཕགས་པ་སྦྱན་པའ་ཕན་ཡན་བསྟན་པ 3

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and eighty excellent signs of a great being.

“When they have given a gift of bathing necessities, the ripening is that in all their future lives they will acquire few illnesses, birth in the highest caste, and great beauty.

“When they have given a gift of the five essential substances,¹⁰ the ripening is that in all future lives they will acquire great power and irrepressible great joy.

“When they have given a gift while abiding in loving kindness, the ripening is that they will acquire freedom from ill will.

“When they have given a gift while abiding in compassion, the ripening is that they will acquire harmlessness.

“When they have given a gift while abiding in joy, the ripening is that they will acquire the ability to bestow fearlessness.

“When they have given a gift while abiding in equanimity, the ripening is that they will rid themselves of sadness.

“When they have given gifts of various kinds, the ripening is that they will acquire various riches.

“When they have given a gift while abiding with no expectation of reward, the ripening is that they will acquire unsurpassed and perfect awakening.

“Monks, the wise give gifts in these thirty-seven ways.”

The Blessed One having spoken thus, the monks rejoiced and praised what the Blessed One said.

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This was translated, edited, and finalized by the Indian preceptor Surendrabodhi and the translator-editor Bandé Yeshé Dé.