འཕགས་པ་རན་ཆན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 12

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“Those who remember this sage’s name
Shall be spared many illnesses
Including blindness, defective sight,
Paralysis, hunchback, and decrepitude.

“Evil and malevolent
Yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras,
Kumbhāṇḍas, rākṣasas, and humans
Shall be unable to harm them.

“Those who remember this sage’s name
Shall be favored and preferred
By all the bhūtas, gandharvas, yakṣas,
Nāgas, and gods.

“Those who hear this protector’s name
Shall swiftly attain vast accumulations,
Sublime voices, and absorption.
Their myriad virtues will be renowned.

“Having heard this world protector’s name
Without doubting it,
They will hew to awakening
Throughout all their subsequent lives.

“Those who hear this great sage’s name
Shall uphold and preach
The way of the well-spoken Dharma
Taught by the buddhas who have gone beyond anguish.

“They shall uphold the teachings
Well spoken by all the buddhas.
They shall manifest the supreme array
And serve all the buddhas.

“Once they pass away,
They will swiftly behold myriad buddhas
And uphold the teachings
Spoken by the buddhas.

“Those who hear this protector’s name
Shall earnestly train and establish
Millions of beings on the path,
Bringing them all to awakening.

“Those who trust what I have seen
Shall uphold the teachings
Of all the buddhas, the protectors,
And additionally venerate the buddhas.

“Those who have faith in this buddha’s wisdom,
Trusting in what I have seen,
Shall be liberated from many fetters.
They will cross the abyss and become fearless.

“Whosoever abandons the sublime Dharma
Is among Māra’s ranks.⁹

“The body hairs of every being
Who migrates among the five types of beings
Could be consolidated
Within one hair on the teacher’s kneecap.

“From a single pore
Of the protector, the guardian of the world,