[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika) › [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) › [The White Lotus of the Good Dharma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000) › 8.13 # དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 8.13 The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 8.13 - **Language:** English ### [8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.8.13) “The Tathāgata has proclaimed a wonderful Dharma That we have never heard before: The nature of the great power of the guides, And the way in which their lifespans are infinite. {1} “Having heard on this day such a Dharma Being imparted directly from the Sugata, Thousands of millions of beings, The Guide of the World’s own progeny, are filled with joy. {2} “Some are irreversibly fixed upon the highest enlightenment, Some are established in the supreme retention, Some are established in unimpeded eloquence, And some in thousands of millions of retentions. {3} “There are others, as numerous as the atoms in the world, Who are established in the highest wisdom of buddhahood. Some will, after eight lifetimes, Become jinas with infinite vision. {4} “Having heard this Dharma of the Guide, Some, after four lives have passed, Some others after two or three, Will attain enlightenment and see the ultimate truth. {5} “Some, after living one lifetime, Will in another existence become omniscient. Having heard the length of the Guide’s lifespan, They will attain such an immaculate result. {6} “The millions of beings who have heard the Dharma, As numerous as the atoms in eight realms, Whose numbers are incalculable, Have developed the aspiration for supreme enlightenment.⁴⁶⁴ {7} “By teaching this enlightenment of buddhahood The great Rishi has accomplished an action That is infinite, and that is immeasurable— As immeasurable as the element of space. {8} “A rain of coral tree flowers has fallen. Many thousands of millions of devas, Śakras, and Brahmās as numerous as the Ganges sands Have come from thousands of millions of realms. {9} “They sprinkle powder of sandalwood, Of the best incenses, and the powder of agarwood. While moving like birds through the sky, They have appropriately sprinkled them on the Lords of Jinas. {10} “From the sky above there has resounded The beautiful sound of drums without their being beaten. - [Previous: 8.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.8.12) - [Next: 8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.8.14) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.8) ## Linked texts (1) - [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.8.13) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.8.13) · Pramāṇa