འཕགས་པ་ཚ་དང་ཡ་ཤས་དཔག་ཏ་མད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 9

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oṁ sarva-saṃskāra-pariśuddha-dharmate gagana-samudgate svabhāva-viśuddhe mahā­naya-pari­vāre svāhā | oṁ namo bhagavate aparimitāyur­jñāna-suviniścita-tejorājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyak­saṃ­buddhāya | tadyathā | oṁ puṇye puṇye mahāpuṇye aparimita­puṇye aparimita­puṇya-jñāna-saṃbhāro­pacite | oṁ sarva-saṃskāra-pariśuddha-dharmate gagana-samudgate svabhāva-viśuddhe mahā­naya-pari­vāre svāhā |

As a comparison, it is possible to calculate the extent of the accumulation of merit that comes from making a gift of a heap of jewels as high as Sumeru, the king of mountains,⁷² but it is impossible to calculate the extent of the accumulation of merit that comes from the Aparimitāyur­jñāna Sūtra.⁷³

oṁ namo bhagavate aparimitāyur­jñāna-suviniścita-tejorājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyak­saṃ­buddhāya | tadyathā | oṁ puṇye puṇye mahāpuṇye aparimitāyur­puṇya-jñāna-saṃbhāro­pacite | oṁ sarva-saṃskāra-pariśuddha-dharmate gagana-samudgate svabhāva-viśuddhe mahā­naya-pari­vāre svāhā | oṁ namo bhagavate aparimitāyur­jñāna-suviniścita-tejorājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyak­saṃ­buddhāya | tadyathā | oṁ puṇye puṇye mahāpuṇye aparimita­puṇye aparimita­puṇya-jñāna-saṃbhāro­pacite | oṁ sarva-saṃskāra-pariśuddha-dharmate gagana-samudgate svabhāva-viśuddhe mahā­naya-pari­vāre svāhā |

As a comparison, it is possible to count each drop that makes up all the water in the four great oceans, but it is impossible to calculate the extent of the accumulation of merit that comes from the Aparimitāyur­jñāna Sūtra.

oṁ namo bhagavate aparimitāyur­jñāna-suviniścita-tejorājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyak­saṃ­buddhāya | tadyathā | oṁ puṇye puṇye mahāpuṇye aparimitāyur­puṇya-jñāna-saṃbhāro­pacite | oṁ sarva-saṃskāra-pariśuddha-dharmate gagana-samudgate svabhāva-viśuddhe mahā­naya-pari­vāre svāhā | oṁ namo bhagavate aparimitāyur­jñāna-suviniścita-tejorājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyak­saṃ­buddhāya | tadyathā | oṁ puṇye puṇye mahāpuṇye aparimita­puṇye aparimita­puṇya-jñāna-saṃbhāro­pacite | oṁ sarva-saṃskāra-pariśuddha-dharmate gagana-samudgate svabhāva-viśuddhe mahā­naya-pari­vāre svāhā |

Whoever writes or causes to be written, honors,⁷⁴ and makes offerings to this Aparimitāyur­jñāna Sūtra will have paid homage and made offerings to all tathāgatas in all the buddha realms in the ten directions.

oṁ namo bhagavate aparimitāyur­jñāna-suviniścita-tejorājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyak­saṃ­buddhāya | tadyathā | oṁ puṇye puṇye mahāpuṇye aparimitāyur­puṇya-jñāna-saṃbhāro­pacite | oṁ sarva-saṃskāra-pariśuddha-dharmate gagana-samudgate svabhāva-viśuddhe mahā­naya-pari­vāre svāhā | oṁ namo bhagavate aparimitāyur­jñāna-suviniścita-tejorājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyak­saṃ­buddhāya | tadyathā | oṁ puṇye puṇye mahāpuṇye aparimita­puṇye aparimita­puṇya-jñāna-saṃbhāro­pacite | oṁ sarva-saṃskāra-pariśuddha-dharmate gagana-samudgate svabhāva-viśuddhe mahā­naya-pari­vāre svāhā |

⁷⁵The Buddha has risen high through the power of generosity,
The lion among men has realized the power of generosity,
And upon the compassionate one’s entry into his city⁷⁶
The resounding⁷⁷ of the power of generosity is heard.