[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) › 180 # འཕགས་པ་སྙང་རྗ་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 180 The White Lotus of Compassion 180 - **Language:** English ### [180](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.180) “ ‘Like a lion on a mountain, O calm one, you roar. Like Mount Meru, you are firm and unwavering. Like the ocean, you are unshaken. Like the earth,²⁹⁴ you bear the good and bad. “ ‘Like water, you carry away all stains. Like fire, O Sage, you burn away the forest of kleśas. Like the wind, you do not attach to anything. Like a deva, O Sage, you show the truth. “ ‘Like a nāga, you bring a rain of Dharma. Like rain, you bring satisfaction to all beings. Like a lion, you defeat tīrthika adversaries. Like a flower, you emit the fragrance of good qualities. “ ‘Like Brahmā, you speak with a beautiful voice. Like a doctor, you free beings from suffering. Like a mother, you care for all equally. Like a friend, you always help beings. “ ‘Like a vajra, you are firm and destroy the enemy of pride. Like a weapon,²⁹⁵ O Sage, you cut through the tendrils of craving. Like a bridge,²⁹⁶ you take beings across. Like a nāga, O Sage, you burn the grass of ignorance.²⁹⁷ “ ‘Like the moon, O Sage, you give cooling light. Like the sun, you cause the lotuses that are humans to blossom. Like a tree, you provide the four supreme fruits. Like a bird, O Sage, you are surrounded by a community of ṛṣis. “ ‘Like the ocean, you have a jina’s vast understanding. Like trees and grass, you are the same toward all beings. Like a dream, you perceive all phenomena as empty. Like water, you act in harmony with the world. “ ‘O Sage, you are a compassionate one, a bearer of the supreme qualities— You who have prophesied enlightenment to beings, You who have trained countless beings, Give me the prophecy of my supreme enlightenment. “ ‘O great ṛṣi, speak truth, you who have supreme wisdom, Cut through my doubts and prophesy my enlightenment. May I be a buddha for beings in strife through the kaliyuga’s kleśas!²⁹⁸ May I lead hundreds of beings onto the path to peace!’ “Noble son, when the brahmin Samudrareṇu, the principal royal priest, had praised the Tathāgata Ratnagarbha with these verses, the entire assembly - [Previous: 179](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.179) - [Next: 181](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.181) ## 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.180) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.180](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.180) · Pramāṇa