[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Protective spells and dhāraṇī-sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani) › [Other dhāraṇīs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other) › [Puṣpakūṭadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani) › [འཕགས་པ་མེ་ཏོག་བརྩེགས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo) › [The Dharani “Heap of Flowers”](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000) › 3 # འཕགས་པ་མ་ཏག་བརྩགས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 3 The Dhāraṇī “Heap of Flowers” 3 - **Language:** English ### [3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000.3) “It is like this, Siṃhavikrīḍita. Those who perform the worship of a thus-gone one, whether present or departed into complete nirvāṇa, will attain complete nirvāṇa through one of the three vehicles—the vehicle of śrāvakas, the vehicle of pratyekabuddhas, or the great vehicle.¹¹ Moreover, Siṃhavikrīḍita, the fruition of merit is the same for a person whose mind becomes cleansed upon beholding the thus-gone, worthy, fully awakened, perfect buddha, and then with a cleansed mind¹² honors, reveres, worships, and venerates him with profits, clothing, alms, bedding, medicinal herbs, implements, and various kinds of comforts, as for a person who worships a caitya containing a relic even as small as a mustard seed from a thus-gone one who has departed into complete nirvāṇa. There is no difference, no distinction whatsoever between them.¹³ “Suppose, Siṃhavikrīḍita, that a householder bodhisattva were to donate a heap of precious materials as tall as Mount Meru to śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, or thus-gone, worthy, fully awakened, perfect Buddhas, and suppose a bodhisattva who has gone forth were to donate a single coin¹⁴ and then generate the aspiration for unsurpassed perfect awakening. The former roots of merit would not amount to even a hundredth of the latter—not a thousandth, not a hundred-thousandth. It would not even count as any part, any number worthy of consideration, simile, or approximation of any kind. It would not even be close; it would not even compare. “Suppose, Siṃhavikrīḍita, that a person were to honor a thus-gone, worthy, fully awakened, perfect Buddha with various comforts for a year, - [Previous: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000.2) - [Next: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-mt.3) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་མེ་ཏོག་བརྩེགས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo.3) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.puspakutadharani*bo~en-84000.3) · Pramāṇa