འཕགས་པ་རན་ཆན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 22

22

“Young man, located below us, past ninety-nine times the number of particles in the previous analogy, there is a world called Lord of the Supreme Banner. There resides the thus-gone, worthy, perfect Buddha King Who Is Peaceful and Splendorous in His Learning and Rich in Melody. He is alive and well and teaches the Dharma. Young man, when those noble sons or daughters who abide in the Great Vehicle hear the name of the thus-gone one King Who is Peaceful and Splendorous in His Learning and Rich in Melody—as long as they do not doubt this but trust in my vision—they will achieve the absorption called utterly illuminating once they have passed away. At the time of death, they will see trillions of buddhas. In all directions, as in the east, they will see trillions of buddhas. They will retain all the Dharma teachings given by these blessed buddhas. Until reaching awakening, they will be blessed by trillions of buddhas. Such beginning bodhisattvas, having turned from cyclic existence for ninety-nine trillion eons, will reach unsurpassed and perfect awakening.”

The Blessed One then expressed the meaning of this in verse:

“Those in this world who hear¹⁵ the supreme name
Of this buddha with an ocean of virtues
Will swiftly perform unsurpassed veneration
Of one hundred billion buddhas.

“Once they have venerated these limitless beings free from stains,
They will engage in the splendorous activity
Of the magnificent buddhas in all existences.
Later, they will also reach the perfect insight of awakening.

“Those who, in a single life, venerate as many guides
As there are grains of sand in the Ganges
Attain the utterly illuminating absorption