[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) › 283 # འཕགས་པ་སྙང་རྗ་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 283 The White Lotus of Compassion 283 - **Language:** English ### [283](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.283) follow that conduct, and remain in it. Similarly, he made beings give up taking what has not been given, and so on, up to and including having wrong views, and he established them in the correct view. He also brought beings to the three yānas, in accordance with their aspirations, and made them enter and remain in them. “Then King Puṇyabala established all the beings in Jambudvīpa in the path of the ten good actions and had them follow the three yānas, and his fame spread throughout all of Jambudvīpa. He made a proclamation that said, ‘Anyone who wants food, and so on, up to and including jewels, come here! I will give you everything!’ “Later, all the beings in Jambudvīpa came to petition King Puṇyabala. King Puṇyabala commenced to make a variety of gifts to them. Then an ājīvika named Pāṃśughoṣa came before him and said, ‘Great king, if you are giving away a variety of gifts in a great act of generosity, if you are intent upon the highest, most complete enlightenment, and if you, great king, fulfill my wishes, then, great king, you will be a jina who is a lamp for this world.’ “ ‘What is it you want?’ asked the king. “ ‘Great king,’ answered the ājīvika Pāṃśughoṣa, ‘I wish to possess a spell so that through a ritual I can defeat great asuras in battle. This is why I stand before you and address you: I need the skin and the eyes of a living human being.’ “Then, noble son, King Puṇyabala thought, - [Previous: 282](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.282) - [Next: 284](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.284) ## 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.283) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.283](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo~en-84000.283) · Pramāṇa