ལས་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ་པ 23.9

23.9

and their nights in sloth and slumber. They will crave money and acclaim. They will be obsessed with physical hygiene and pour their efforts into their attire. They will have neither renunciation, tranquility, solitude, nor perfect enlightenment. The only thing dear to them will be their outfits.

“Lacking the great virtues of the holy ascetics, and acting as enemies to the holy Dharma and friends with this time of strife, they will lay down the banner of the Dharma and hoist the banner of Māra, snuff out the flame of Dharma and ignite the flame of afflictive emotions, cleave the Dharma drum, grind the wheel of holy Dharma down to dust, let dry up the ocean of holy Dharma, level the mountain of holy Dharma, raze the city of Dharma to the ground, rip out the Dharma tree by its roots, cast aside calm abiding meditation and insight meditation, snip off the adornments of their morality, and repudiate the path.

“Then the gods, nāgas, and yakṣas shall curse, desert, and defeat¹⁶¹ them, saying, ‘It isn’t right that these lowest of beings spoil the excellent speech of the Blessed One.’ And they will also say:

“ ‘These wretched persons, engulfed in wrong views,
Whose sorry misdeeds know no bounds,
In their benighted state have felled the Blessed One’s teaching,
The fruit-bearing tree, and now it’s gone.

“ ‘The heartless tossed out the Dharma way.
The true Dharma they have cast away. In greed,
They tore the Dharma banner, the Blessed One’s teaching,
Left it on the ground, and now it’s gone.

“ ‘These countless restive, wicked persons
In the thrall of sin, these evil ones,
Destroyed that bridge, the Sage’s teaching,
And now it’s gone.

“ ‘These ignoble persons with shaven heads,
Lax in conduct, whose lives are a ploy,
Dishonest folk, have destroyed that market,