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# འཕགས་པ་སྙང་རྗ་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 21

The White Lotus of Compassion 21

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will be irreversible in their progress to complete enlightenment.  
  
“Those who write it out will always see the Buddha, listen to the Dharma, and serve the Saṅgha until complete parinirvāṇa. The bodhisattvas who chant the dhāraṇī entranceway that is the form of omniscience will eliminate without remainder their primary karma,⁵⁷ and in the next life they will ascend to the first bhūmi.  
  
“The bodhisattva mahāsattvas who meditate on the dhāraṇī entranceway that is the form of omniscience will completely eliminate even the five actions with immediate results at death if they have committed and accumulated them, and in the next life they will ascend to the first bhūmi. If they have not committed the actions with immediate results at death, then in that lifetime they will completely eliminate all other karma and in the next life will ascend to the first bhūmi.  
  
“Even if someone does not meditate on this dhāraṇī or chant this dhāraṇī, but only listens to it and binds a turban⁵⁸ onto the Dharma reciter, then the bhagavat buddhas residing, living, and remaining in other realms, who are as numerous as the grains of sand in the Ganges River, will declare ‘excellent!’ and those bhagavat buddhas will prophesy his attainment of the highest, most complete enlightenment. Not long after, that bodhisattva will be consecrated as their regent,⁵⁹ and he will be only one lifetime away from attaining the highest, most complete enlightenment. In the same way, those who make an offering of incense to the Dharma reciter⁶⁰ will before long obtain the incense of the highest, most complete enlightenment. If they offer a flower to the Dharma reciter,

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- [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.21) — Classical Tibetan

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