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# དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.9

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 3.9

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### [3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.3.9)

They waved¹⁸² divine cloths in the sky above him. They played a hundred thousand divine musical instruments and beat drums in the sky. A great rain of flowers fell and they proclaimed, “The Bhagavān previously turned the wheel of Dharma in the Ṛṣipatana deer forest¹⁸³ in the land of Vārāṇasī, and on this day the Bhagavān has turned the highest Dharma wheel.”  
  
At that time those devas recited these verses:  
  
“Unequaled individual, great hero,  
In the land of Vārāṇasī  
You turned the Dharma wheel  
Of the arising and cessation of the skandhas. {33}  
  
“There took place the first turning  
And here, Guide, this is the second.  
You have taught today, Leader,  
That which is difficult to believe. {34}  
  
“We have heard many dharmas  
In the presence of the world’s lord,  
But we have never before  
Heard a dharma of this kind. {35}  
  
“Great hero, we are overjoyed by  
The great rishi’s words with implied meaning.  
Just as in the prophecy  
To the fearless Ārya¹⁸⁴ Śāriputra, {36}  
  
“May we also in that way become  
Unsurpassable buddhas in the world,  
And through words with implied meaning  
Teach buddhahood’s highest enlightenment. {37}  
  
“Whatever good we do  
In this or in other worlds,  
And through pleasing the Buddha,  
May we aspire for enlightenment.” {38}  
  
Then Brother Śāriputra said to the Bhagavān, “Bhagavān, I have directly heard from the Bhagavān the prophecy of my attaining the highest, complete enlightenment. Bhagavān, I have no doubt. I am free of uncertainty.  
  
“Bhagavān, these one thousand two hundred who have gained self-control were previously established as students by the Bhagavān, and were instructed thus, were taught thus: ‘Bhikṣus, the ultimate conclusion of the discipline of the Dharma is the transcendence of birth, aging, sickness, and death,¹⁸⁵ the goal of nirvāṇa, being absorbed in nirvāṇa.’

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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.3.9) — Classical Tibetan

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