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འཕགས་པ་སྙང་རྗ་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 289

The White Lotus of Compassion 289

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there will be a buddha realm in the upward direction that has the five degeneracies and the name Kṣāravarcani­kuñjitā. This Saṃrocana, through the power of his prayers, will attain the highest, most complete enlightenment in the realm Kṣāravarcani­kuñjitā, among beings whose lifespan is fifty years. He will become the tathāgata arhat samyaksam­buddha, and so on, up to and including the buddha bhagavat, named Acintyarocana. Through the power of his former prayers, he will accomplish all the deeds of a buddha for ten years and then pass into nirvāṇa. On that day, the Dharma of that tathāgata will also come to an end, and for ten years that buddha realm will be empty.

“After that, the bodhisattva Prahasitabāhu, through the power of his prayers, will attain the highest, most complete enlightenment in that buddha realm Kṣāravarcani­kuñjitā⁴¹⁸ at the time when beings have a lifespan of thirty years. He will become the tathāgata arhat samyaksam­buddha, and so on, up to and including the buddha bhagavat, named Vairocanadharma. Through the power of his former prayers, he will accomplish all the deeds of a buddha in ten years and then pass into nirvāṇa, into the state of nirvāṇa without any remaining aggregates. His Dharma will remain for seven years.”

Those two worthy beings,⁴¹⁹ having received these prophecies and tasted the flavor of the highest, most complete enlightenment, bowed down their heads to the feet of the Bhagavat. Their joy, happiness, and delight caused them to rise in the air to the height of seven palm trees, and remaining there, with palms placed together, they sang in unison these verses to the Bhagavat:

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