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# དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.8

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 3.8

- **Language:** English

### [3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.3.8)

And it will be adorned by cords of gold.  
Present there will be hundreds of trees made of jewels  
That are beautiful and adorned by flowers and fruits. {26}  
  
“There will be many mindful bodhisattvas there  
Who are skilled in the accomplishment of perfect conduct.  
Those who will be born into that realm  
Will have trained in conduct with hundreds of buddhas. {27}  
  
“That jina in his final lifetime,  
When he has passed beyond the time of his youth,  
Will forsake desires, leave the worldly life,  
And will attain the highest, complete enlightenment. {28}  
  
“The lifespan of that jina  
Will be the same as twelve intermediate eons.  
The lifespan of humans in that world  
Will be eight intermediate eons. {29}  
  
“When that jina has passed into nirvāṇa  
The Dharma will remain during the time  
Of thirty-two intermediate eons in their entirety  
In order to benefit the world and its devas. {30}  
  
“The Dharma will cease but its outer form  
Will remain for a futher thirty-two intermediate eons.  
The relics of that protector’s body will multiply  
And the humans and maruts will continually honor them. {31}  
  
“That you will thus become a bhagavān,  
Śārisuta, you should be delighted.  
That is what you will become:  
An unsurpassable supreme human.” {32}  
  
Then the fourfold assembly of bhikṣus, bhikṣuṇīs, upāsakas, and upāsikās, as well as devas, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kinnaras, mahoragas, humans, and nonhumans, having heard directly from the Bhagavān this prophecy of Brother Śāriputra’s highest, complete enlightenment, were contented, delighted, elated, and joyful. With happiness and gladness they presented the Bhagavān’s body with their own clothing. Śakra, the lord of devas, and Brahmā, the lord of Sahā, and another trillion devas also presented the Bhagavān’s body with divine clothing. They scattered divine coral tree and great coral tree flowers.

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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.3.8) — Classical Tibetan

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