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# འཕགས་པ་སང་གས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5

Siṃha’s Questions 5

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Let alone while awake?”⁷¹ {37}⁷²  
  
“In whatever region one dwells,  
Whether a village or a city,  
By correctly guiding others toward awakening,  
The mind of awakening is not abandoned.” {38}  
  
“Wherever one is born,⁷³  
How can one acquire great strength  
And always be elevated with power  
So that even ten million māras can do no harm?”⁷⁴ {39}  
  
“In this life, if one offers the five essences⁷⁵  
And gives courage to those who are afraid,  
Then wherever one is born⁷⁶  
One will also have great strength,  
Always be elevated with power,  
And be unharmed even by ten million māras.”⁷⁷ {40}⁷⁸  
  
Having heard this teaching  
On the conduct of bodhisattvas⁷⁹  
Directly from the Guardian of the World,  
Siṃha⁸⁰ was overjoyed.⁸¹ {41}⁸²  
  
He and his companions  
Spoke the following words:⁸³  
“We will train  
In this teaching on conduct.”⁸⁴ {42}  
  
Then the Buddha smiled,  
And the trichiliocosm quaked.⁸⁵  
Ajita then asked the Buddha  
The following question:  
“Why did you smile?  
Great Sage,⁸⁶ please explain this!”⁸⁷ {43}⁸⁸  
  
And so to Ajita  
The Buddha replied,  
“Ajita, please listen to the reason  
That I smiled.⁸⁹ {44}  
  
“Previously,⁹⁰ these boys⁹¹ assembled before  
Eight hundred million buddhas and a quadrillion more.⁹²  
For the purpose of awakening,  
They made offerings to those guides of humans.⁹³ {45}  
  
“Since the time of⁹⁴ Dīpaṅkara—  
The perfect buddha,⁹⁵ supreme among people⁹⁶—  
I have been ripening  
These brahmin boys.⁹⁷ {46}  
  
“When the splendid⁹⁸ eon called  
Great Illumination⁹⁹ arises,  
In that single eon  
They will all become guides.¹⁰⁰ {47}¹⁰¹  
  
“They will become guides for the world  
Named Jñānaketudhvaja,¹⁰²  
And their array will be  
Just like that of Amitābha. {48}  
  
“From the time of Maitreya  
Through three hundred full eons,

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