འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 8

8

Such individuals and their close ones
Will be born in the world
On jewel lotuses with millions of petals.

“Those who remember these names
Will be able to traverse through space
To all the buddha realms
And behold the pure fields of the buddhas,

“The protectors of the world.
In the presence of the world protectors,
They will listen to the profound Dharma
And will not squander whatever they have heard.

“For those who remember these names,
Evil demons
Along with the host of negative forces
Will never have a chance to harm them.

“Those who remember these names
Will not be killed by weapons,
Or by poison or fire.
Kings and thieves will be unable to harm them.

“No gods, nāgas, yakṣas,
Gandharvas, or mahoragas
Will have any chance
To cause them harm.

“These buddhas are supreme human beings.
They are the essence of glory, thunderous victors.
Having become learned and conscientious,
What wise person would not remember their names?

“Those who hear these names of all the world protectors
And hear them in the proper manner
Will gain courage and great insight by hearing the names of these renowned ones.
They will become buddhas, supreme humans in the world.”

When the Bhagavān had spoken these words, Venerable Śāriputra and the entire retinue, along with the world with its gods, humans, demigods, and gandharvas, rejoiced and praised what the Bhagavān had said.

Colophon

It was translated and finalized by the Indian preceptors Jinamitra and Surendrabodhi and by the great editor-translator Bandé Yeshé Dé. The text contains ninety-one stanzas.⁵