དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.19
The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 2.19
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2.19
And who are patient, peaceful, and self-controlled:
They will all of them attain enlightenment. {77}
“Those who make offerings to the relics
Of the jinas who have passed into nirvāṇa,
And have built countless thousands of stūpas
That are made of jewels, gold, and silver, {78}
“And of crystals, and of emeralds,
That are made from pearls and chrysoberyls,
Of the best beryls and likewise sapphires:
They will all of them attain enlightenment. {79}
“Also those who make stūpas out of stone,
Those who make them from sandalwood and agarwood,
Those who make stūpas out of deodar cedar,
Those who make them from a combination of woods, {80}
“And those who with delight make stūpas of jinas
From bricks or build them from clay,¹³⁶
And those who for that purpose create them
In remote forests from piles of earth, {81}
“And those children playing here and there
Who pile up sand
So as to create stūpas of the jinas:
They will all of them attain enlightenment.¹³⁷ {82}
“Similarly those who have others work
In order to create the precious images
Of statues that possess the thirty-two signs:
They will all of them attain enlightenment. {83}
“Those who make them from the seven precious materials,
Those who make them from copper and bronze,
Those who have made statues of the sugatas:
They will all of them attain enlightenment. {84}
“Those who have representations of the sugatas made
From lead, from iron, or from clay,
Or beautifully painted on cloth:¹³⁸
They will all of them attain enlightenment. {85}
“Those who paint their representations in murals,
Their entire bodies with a hundred signs of merit,
Whether they paint them themselves or have others do so:
They will all of them attain enlightenment. {86}
“Also those, whether adults or children,
Who in learning, or for their own amusement
Or to entertain others, draw those images
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