དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.23
The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 4.23
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4.23
“ ‘Knower of the World, you have attained today
The state of sublime, immaculate peace.
We and the world are in your care.
Protector, we go to you for refuge.’ {14}
“Bhikṣus, those sixteen children, young princes, with these verses fittingly praised the bhagavān, the tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened buddha Mahābhijñājñānābhibhū. They then said, ‘Bhagavān, we request you to teach the Dharma for the benefit and welfare of devas and humans and of the great multitudes of beings. Sugata, we request you to teach the Dharma!’ They thus requested the bhagavān to turn the wheel of the Dharma, and they made a further request through these verses:
“ ‘You with the signs of a hundred merits,
Unequaled guide, great rishi, teach the Dharma!
You have attained the superior, highest wisdom.
Teach it to this world and its devas— {15}
“ ‘Liberate us and these beings!
Teach the wisdom of the tathāgatas
So that we and these beings
Will attain this highest enlightenment. {16}
“ ‘You fully comprehend conduct and wisdom;
You know previous motivations and merit
And the aspirations of all beings.
Turn the supreme, unsurpassable wheel!’ {17}
“Bhikṣus, when the bhagavān , the tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened buddha Mahābhijñājñānābhibhū attained the highest, complete enlightenment of perfect buddhahood, fifty hundred thousand quintillion worlds in each of the ten directions shook and were filled with a great light.
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- དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan