The Lotus Sūtra 10.1

10.1

པའི་རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་མངོན་པར་འདུ་བྱེད་པའི་ལེའུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་སྟེ་ཉི་ཤུ་པའོ།། །།བམ་པོ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ། དེ་ནས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་སྨན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་སྟན་ལས་ལངས་ཏེ། བླ་གོས་ཕྲག་པ་གཅིག་ཏུ་གཟར་ནས་པུས་མོ་གཡས་པའི་

and with his hands together in homage bowed toward the Bhagavān and said to the Bhagavān, “Bhagavān, how much merit will a noble man or noble woman generate by carrying this Dharma teaching The White Lotus of the Good Dharma on their body or making a text of it?”

The Bhagavān answered the bodhisattva mahāsattva Bhaiṣajyarāja, “Bhaiṣajyarāja, if a noble man or noble woman were to honor, venerate, worship, and make offerings to hundreds of thousands of quintillions of tathāgatas, as numerous as the grains of sand in eighty Ganges River, what do you think, would that noble man or noble woman generate much merit as a result of that?”

“Much merit, Bhagavān,” he answered. “Much merit, Sugata.”

“Bhaiṣajyarāja,” the Bhagavān continued, “I declare to you, I proclaim to you,⁴⁹⁹ Bhaiṣajyarāja, that the noble man or noble woman who possesses just one verse, or one line from this Dharma teaching The White Lotus of the Good Dharma and reads it, studies it, and assiduously practices it, that noble man or noble woman, Bhaiṣajyarāja, will have even greater merit as a result of that.”

Then the bodhisattva mahāsattva Bhaiṣajyarāja said to the Bhagavān, “Bhagavān, we give these dhāraṇī-mantra words to a noble man or noble woman who carries on their body or makes a text of this Dharma teaching and upholds it, so that they may be protected, guarded, and hidden:

“Tadyathā:⁵⁰⁰ anye manye mane⁵⁰¹ mamane⁵⁰² citte⁵⁰³ carite⁵⁰⁴ śame⁵⁰⁵ śamayitā viśānte⁵⁰⁶ mukte⁵⁰⁷ muktatame⁵⁰⁸ same avisame⁵⁰⁹ samasame⁵¹⁰ jaye kṣaye akṣaye akṣīṇe⁵¹¹ śānte⁵¹² śamite⁵¹³ dhāraṇi⁵¹⁴ āloka­bhāṣe pratyavekṣaṇi⁵¹⁵ viviru⁵¹⁶ abhyantaraniviṣṭe⁵¹⁷ abhyantarapāriśuddhi⁵¹⁸ utkule⁵¹⁹ mutkule⁵²⁰ arḍe⁵²¹ parḍe⁵²² sukāṅkṣi⁵²³ asama­same buddha­vilokite⁵²⁴ dharma­parīkṣite⁵²⁵ saṃgha­nirghoṣaṇi⁵²⁶ nirghoṣaṇi⁵²⁷ bhayābhaya­śodhani⁵²⁸ mantre⁵²⁹ mantrākṣayate⁵³⁰ rutakauśalye⁵³¹ akṣaye⁵³² akṣayavanatāye⁵³³ vakkule valoḍa⁵³⁴ amanyanatāya.⁵³⁵