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དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 10.23

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 10.23

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10.23

yakṣas, gandharvas, and mahoragas who belong to the class of māras will find no opportunity to attack it.

“Therefore, Nakṣatra­rāja­saṃkusumitābhi­jña, this Dharma teaching is blessed to be like medicine for those beings in Jambudvīpa who are sick, who are afflicted by illness. When one has heard this Dharma teaching, the body will not be afflicted by illness, and there will no aging or premature death.

“Nakṣatra­rāja­saṃkusumitābhi­jña, if someone who has entered the Bodhisattva­yāna sees a bhikṣu who possesses this sūtra, they should sprinkle him with sandalwood powder and with blue lotuses. And having scattered those, they should have the thought, ‘This noble man is going to the Bodhimaṇḍa, he will obtain grass, he will lay out the grass at the Bodhimaṇḍa, he will defeat the māras, he will blow the conch of the Dharma, he will beat the drum of the Dharma, and he will cross the ocean of saṃsāra.’

“Nakṣatra­rāja­saṃkusumitābhi­jña, a noble man or noble woman who has entered the Bodhisattva­yāna should develop that thought when they see a bhikṣu who possesses this kind of sūtra. In that way there will be those qualities that are the qualities that have been described by the Tathāgata.”

When the chapter “The Past of Bhaiṣajyarāja” was taught, eighty-four thousand bodhisattvas attained the power of retention that possesses skill in words.

The bhagavān, the tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened buddha Prabhūtaratna also commended Nakṣatra­rāja­saṃkusumitābhi­jña, saying, “It is excellent, excellent that you have asked the Tathāgata about the Dharma that has inconceivable qualities.”

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