[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) › 8.22 # དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 8.22 The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 8.22 - **Language:** English ### [8.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.8.22) “Just as the extent of space Can never be discovered Throughout all the ten directions, So will be this accumulation of merit. {52} “And it goes without saying that it will be so For those who also have patience, self-control, Concentration, correct conduct, meditation, And practice solitary contemplation. {53} “Without anger, without slander, They remain in veneration to the caitya, Always bowing to the bhikṣus Without pride and without laziness. {54} “Endowed with wisdom and likewise⁴⁷⁰ stable, They ask questions and do not become angry. They have compassion for beings And teach them in an appropriate manner. {55} “For those who will be like that And who possess this sūtra, There will be an aggregation of merit The extent of which can never be measured. {56} “If someone were to see Such dharmabhāṇakas Who possess this sūtra They will treat them with reverence. {57} “They will scatter divine flowers upon them. They will wrap them in divine cloth. They will bow their heads to their feet, And will perceive them to be a tathāgata. {58} “Seeing them they will at that time think, ‘That one will go to the foot of a tree And in order to benefit the world and its devas Will attain the highest enlightenment of buddhahood.’ {59} “Someone who recites one verse from this sūtra Where those kinds of wise people walk, Wherever they stand, or wherever they sit, Or wherever those heroes makes their bed, {60} “In those places there should be built Various beautiful stūpas of the highest being, For the Guide, the Buddha, the Bhagavān, And a variety of offerings should be made to it. {61} “I also will have enjoyed that place Where those bodhisattvas⁴⁷¹ resided. I myself will have walked there, And I myself will have sat there.” {62} Chapter 17 Teaching the Merit of Rejoicing Then the bodhisattva mahāsattva Maitreya asked the Bhagavān, - [Previous: 8.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.8.21) - [Next: 8.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.8.23) - [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.8.22) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.8.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*bo~en-84000.8.22) · Pramāṇa