[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika) › [དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo) › [The White Lotus of the Good Dharma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000) › 10.12 # དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 10.12 The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 10.12 - **Language:** English ### [10.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.10.12) taught in eighty times⁵⁷⁷ a hundred thousand quintillion verses, a thousand trillion verses,⁵⁷⁸ a hundred thousand trillion⁵⁷⁹ verses, and ten quintillion⁵⁸⁰ verses. Therefore, Father, Mother, it would be excellent for me to go before the Bhagavān. Then when I am there I will make offerings to the Bhagavān.’ “Then, Nakṣatra­rāja­saṃkusumitābhi­jña, at that time the bodhisattva mahāsattva Sarva­sattva­priya­darśana rose into the air to the height of seven palm trees and, sitting cross-legged in a kūṭāgāra made of the seven precious materials, he went into the presence of the Bhagavān. Having arrived there he bowed his head to the Bhagavān’s feet, circumambulated the Bhagavān seven times, and with his hands together in homage he bowed toward the Bhagavān and, paying homage to the Bhagavān, he praised him by reciting this verse: “ ‘Hero, Lord of Humans, with a stainless face, Your light rays beautify the ten directions in this world. Sugata, I have made the supreme offering to you, And, Lord, I have come here so that I might see you.’ {2} “Then he said to the bhagavān, the tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened buddha Candra­sūrya­vimala­prabhāsa­śrī, ‘Bhagavān, will you continue to remain?’ “Then, Nakṣatra­rāja­saṃkusumitābhi­jña, the bhagavān, the tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened buddha Candra­sūrya­vimala­prabhāsa­śrī - [Previous: 10.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.10.11) - [Next: 10.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.10.13) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.10) ## Linked texts (1) - [དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo.10.12) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.10.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.10.12) · Pramāṇa