[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) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Karuṇāpuṇḍarīkasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika) › [འཕགས་པ་སྙིང་རྗེ་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo) › [The White Lotus of Compassion](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000) › 163 # འཕགས་པ་སྙང་རྗ་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 163 The White Lotus of Compassion 163 - **Language:** English ### [163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.163) the young brahmin Vimalavaiśāyana then stood in front of the Tathāgata Ratnagarbha and said, ‘Bhadanta Bhagavat, I also aspire to enlightenment in the Bhadraka eon—only not in the kaliyuga. “ ‘When the Tathāgata Kāśyapa has passed into parinirvāṇa, when the lifespan of people is ten thousand years, when beings no longer have thoughts of generosity, control, or vows, when they are devoid of the seven riches, when they perceive bad friends as teachers, when they are not interested in engaging in the three acts that create merit, when they are devoid of the three good types of conduct, when they are dedicated to the three pleasures, when they have minds disturbed by the darkness of the kleśas, when they are not interested in the three yānas—at that time, no one is able to bring about the conduct of a bodhisattva. What to say when the lifespan is a thousand years, and then when those beings have a lifespan of only a hundred years—at that time, beings will not even know the words root of merit, let alone the practice of roots of virtue. At that time, when the world is comprised of the five degeneracies, when the lifespan is diminishing to a hundred years, when the intermediate eon of weapons has set in, may I descend from the gods and bring protection to beings. May I enjoin them to good actions, having abandoned bad actions. May I establish beings in the ten good courses of action. May I help purify the kleśas of beings by means of the good courses of action. May I enjoin them to the three yānas.²⁸¹ May I help them abandon the five degeneracies. When beings live for eighty thousand years, - [Previous: 162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.162) - [Next: 164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.164) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་སྙིང་རྗེ་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo.163) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.163) · Pramāṇa