[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) › 2.24 # དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.24 The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 2.24 - **Language:** English ### [2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2.24) “They who had arrived before me Stood respectfully with palms together. They had heard the Dharma from the jinas And were skilled in many kinds of methods. {129} “Then in that instant I had this thought: ‘The time has come for me to teach the highest Dharma. It is for that purpose that I was born into this world And I shall teach here the highest enlightenment. {130} “ ‘Those with foolish understanding, who conceptualize characteristics, Who have become arrogant and who are lacking in wisdom Will on this day not have faith in it. But these bodhisattvas will listen to me.’ {131} “At that time, fearlessly and joyfully, Having abandoned every hesitation, I spoke in the middle of the offspring of the sugatas And inspired them toward enlightenment. {132} “Having seen children of the buddhas such as these, You too should be one who has banished doubt. These twelve hundred who have no defilements Will all become buddhas in this world. {133} “Just like the nature of the past protectors And like that of the jinas in the future, I too have eliminated conceptualization And will teach you in that way today. {134} “Sometimes, somewhere, somehow, A leader of beings appears in a world. When someone with infinite vision appears in a world Then sometimes this kind of Dharma may be taught. {135} “Even in a million trillion eons it will be Very difficult to find a supreme Dharma such as this. It will be very difficult to find beings such as these Who listen to the supreme Dharma and believe in it. {136} “They are as difficult to find as a fig tree flower That is sometimes, somehow, somewhere seen. It may be a beautiful sight for beings And a marvel for the world and its devas. {137} “Therefore, I will teach the greatest marvel, And whoever hears this well-taught Dharma, Rejoices, and recites just one word of it Will have made an offering to all the buddhas. {138} “Banish all doubt and uncertainty concerning this. - [Previous: 2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2.23) - [Next: 2.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2.25) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2) ## 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.2.24) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2.24) · Pramāṇa