འཕགས་པ་རན་ཆན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 29

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Woven fabrics were offered
To all the bodhisattvas.

Lion thrones were placed
Before emanated trees of awakening.
All told, two hundred fifty million
Were set out.

For millions of years,
Countless bodhisattvas—
Hundreds of millions in fact—
Arrived there.

They arrived first from the east,
And then from the south, west, and north,
From above and below,
And from the intermediate directions.

The golden-colored light
Of the Refuge, the World Protector,
Filled as many realms
As the eye could see.

Bodhisattvas arrived
From all worlds
To the place where the Teacher was sitting
And the Dharma was shining.

In this fashion, Ratnajālin,
The young Licchavi,
Performed boundless,
Limitless, and inconceivable homage.

Then the great person,
The supreme human, the Lion of the Śākyas,
Brought comfort to the assembled
Gods, nāgas, and humans:

“Standing before me,
You have performed such veneration.
This veneration has been done with offerings
As numerous as the grains of sand in the Ganges.

“Those who hear this discourse,
Which has been taught for the sake of Ratnajālin,
Shall not turn back from awakening;
They will become supreme preachers of buddhahood.

“One cannot describe
The measure of the mass of merit
That ensues from remembering this discourse
By saying, ‘It shall be this much.’

“While one can describe the extent
Of the earth, water, fire, and wind
Throughout the ten directions,
It is impossible to describe this mass of merit.

“When a monk or nun,
Or a novice monk or nun,
Hears this discourse,
All beings including gods, nāgas, and mahoragas

“Will arrive near them
And find their splendor overwhelming.
While it is possible that fire can turn cold,
Their splendor will never diminish.