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# དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.16

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 2.16

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### [2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2.16)

Who are clinging to saṃsāra and suffer deeply. {46}  
  
“A self-arisen one performs this method  
So that the wisdom of buddhahood may be realized.  
But I have never said to them,  
‘You will become buddhas in this world.’ {47}  
  
“Why is that? The Protector waits for an appropriate time,  
And when he sees that time has come he teaches it.  
That appropriate time has somehow arrived today  
And that is why I shall teach the definitive truth. {48}  
  
“My teaching has nine aspects,  
Which are taught according to the strengths ¹²⁸ of beings.  
I teach with this method so that they will approach  
The supreme gift that is wisdom. {49}  
  
“I give the teaching of the extensive sūtras  
To those bodhisattvas¹²⁹ who are always pure,  
Who are wise,¹³⁰ unsullied, and gentle,  
Who have served many millions of buddhas. {50}  
  
“As their aspirations are fulfilled  
And they have purity of conduct,  
I say that they will be in a future time  
Beneficial and compassionate buddhas. {51}  
  
“Hearing so, they all are filled with joy,  
Thinking, ‘We will become buddhas, supreme among beings.’  
And also, knowing their attitude,  
I give them the teaching of the extensive sūtras. {52}  
  
“Those śrāvakas of the Guide who in this way  
Have heard this teaching¹³¹ of mine,  
They who have heard or retained even one verse,  
Will all, without doubt, attain enlightenment. {53}  
  
“Apart from the skillful methods of supreme beings  
Who give the teaching of separate yānas,  
There is only one yāna; there is no second,  
And there is never in the world a third. {54}  
  
“A lord of the world appears in the world  
In order to teach the wisdom of buddhahood.  
That is his one activity, there is no second:  
The buddhas do not guide beings with a lesser yāna. {55}  
  
“A self-arisen one establishes beings  
In that in which he is himself established:  
In that very same buddhahood,  
In the strengths, dhyānas, liberations, and powers. {56}

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- [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.2.16) — Classical Tibetan

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