[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) › 2.6 # དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.6 The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 2.6 - **Language:** English ### [2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2.6) “ ‘I have obtained countless strengths, Liberations, and dhyānas’— Sun of humans, for a long time today You have spoken words of this kind. {22} “You are speaking about the Bodhimaṇḍa Without anyone asking you to. You are speaking about intended meaning Without anyone asking you about it. {23} “Without anyone asking you to speak of it You are praising your own conduct. You speak of your attainment of wisdom And you declare it to be profound. {24} “Those with power, whose defilements have ceased, And those established in nirvāṇa Are today in uncertainty, Wondering what the Jina is saying. {25} “Those who are intent on pratyeka­buddhahood, And the bhikṣus and likewise bhikṣuṇīs, The devas, nāgas, and yakṣas, And the gandharvas and mahoragas, {26} “They are uncertain, analyzing, Talking among themselves, And gazing at the supreme human. Great sage, give us your elucidation. {27} “Within the teaching of the highest sage I am supreme among the entirety Of all the Tathāgata’s śrāvakas Who are present here. {28} “And yet I am myself still uncertain, Supreme human, of your point. How conclusive is my nirvāṇa Or the practice I have been taught? {29} “Emit the sound of the supreme drum By relating the nature of this Dharma. The heart children of the Jina are present here, Gazing at the Jina with hands together in homage. {30} “There are devas and nāgas together with yakṣas and rākṣasas In many billions, as numerous as the Ganges sands. There are eighty thousand present of those Who are intent upon supreme enlightenment. {31} “There are great monarchs, cakravartin kings Who have come from billions of realms. They have respectfully placed their hands together. How can we make our practice perfect?” {32} When Śāriputra had thus spoken, the Bhagavān asked him, “Śāriputra,¹⁰⁵ why should I teach this? What would be the reason? Śāriputra, if I were to teach the meaning of this, - [Previous: 2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2.5) - [Next: 2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2.7) - [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.2.5-6) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.2.6) · Pramāṇa