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དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.11

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 4.11

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4.11

“He will make offerings to those supreme humans
And will accomplish the highest wisdom.
In his last lifetime he will become
A lord of the world, an unequaled great rishi. {3}

“His realm will be most perfect,
Excellent, pure, and beautiful,
Pleasing in appearance, constantly delightful,
And adorned by cords of gold. {4}

“It will be divided like a checkerboard and in each square
There will be a variety of trees made of jewels
And the aroma of a spreading, pleasing incense
Will be in this realm, O bhikṣus. {5}

“It will be adorned by many flowers;
It will be beautified by a variety of flowers.
There will be no chasms or cliffs.
It will be flat, excellent, and beautiful. {6}

“There will be many billions of bodhisattvas there
With very disciplined minds and great miraculous powers.
There will be many thousands who will hold
The extensive sūtras of the Protector. {7}

“There will be śrāvakas of the Dharma King
Who are in their last lives, without defilements.
One could never be able to know their number
Even if one were to count with divine knowledge for eons. {8}

“He will live for twelve intermediate eons.
His Dharma will remain for twenty intermediate eons,
And the outer form of his Dharma for twenty intermediate eons.
It is thus that Raśmiprabhāsa will appear.” {9}

Then Brother Sthavira Mahā­maudgalyāyana, Brother Subhūti, and Brother Mahākātyāyana, with trembling bodies and unblinking eyes, stared at the Bhagavān, and all three of them in their minds recited these verses:

“Great hero, Arhat!
Śākya Lion! Supreme human!
Through your love for us
Speak the Buddha’s words. {10}

“Supreme human, knowing
That there is for us this definite opportunity,
Jina, sprinkle amrita upon us
And give to us a prophecy. {11}

“Just as when, during a famine,

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