དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.22
The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 4.22
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4.22
the king’s ministers, and many hundred thousands of quintillions of beings, they went to the Bodhimaṇḍa where the tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened buddha Mahābhijñājñānābhibhū was seated, in order to serve him, venerate him, honor him, make offerings to him, praise him, and respect him.
“When they arrived there, they bowed their heads to the Bhagavān’s feet, circumambulated the Bhagavān three times, and with hands together in homage, in front of the Bhagavān they fittingly praised him with these verses:
“ ‘You have the six great higher knowledges, you are unsurpassable,
And you have perfected yourself for endless eons,
In order to bring liberation to all beings.
You have fulfilled here your excellent intention. {8}
“ ‘You have endured hardship for ten intermediate eons,
Practicing being seated upon one seat.
You have never moved your body,
Hands, or feet, or gone anywhere. {9}
“ ‘Your mind is at peace and perfectly stilled,
You are never agitated or disturbed,
You never have any distraction,
You remain in perfect, immaculate peace. {10}
“ ‘You have attained this supreme enlightenment
Through goodness, bliss, happiness, and harmlessness.
In that way, this is our good fortune;
Lord of Men, Lion, we increase our virtue. {11}
“ ‘All these suffering beings have no protector;
Their eyes gouged out, they are deprived of happiness.
They do not know the path that will end suffering,
And do not have the diligence to attain liberation. {12}
“ ‘For a long time they have been increasing lower existences,
And factors depriving them of divine rebirths.
They never hear the words of the Jina
And the entire world is in the darkness of ignorance. {13}
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- དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan