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དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 8.29

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 8.29

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8.29

Their nose, forehead, teeth, lips, and face
Will all be perfectly formed. {12}

“People will see them as attractive.
There will be no rotten smell from their mouth,
But always a pleasant scent like a blue lotus—
That is the aroma that will come from their mouth. {13}

“If heroes go from their home to the temple,
Arriving there in order to listen to the sūtra,
And having arrived there, listen to the Dharma briefly,
The result of having such faith is as follows: {14}

“They will have a body that will be very white.
Those constant ones will travel by horse-drawn carriage.
They will travel seated in an elephant-drawn carriage
That is adorned by jewels. {15}

“They will obtain an adorned palanquin
That will be carried by many men.
This is the kind of result of good karma
That comes from going to listen to the Dharma. {16}

“Through the good karma that is created
By being seated in the midst of the assembly,
They will attain the throne of Brahmā,
The throne of a king, and the throne of Śakra.” {17}

Chapter 18

The Benefits of the Purity of the Six Āyatanas

Then the Bhagavān said to the bodhisattva mahāsattva Satata­samitābhiyukta, “If any noble man or noble woman possesses, reads, teaches, or asks questions about this Dharma teaching, that noble man or noble woman will gain eight hundred qualities of the eyes, will gain twelve hundred qualities of the nose, will gain eight hundred qualities of the ears, will gain twelve hundred qualities of the tongue, will gain eight hundred qualities of the body, and will gain twelve hundred qualities of mind.

“Through those many hundreds of qualities the combination⁴⁷⁶ of the six sensory faculties will be purified, completely purified. The purified faculty of the eye, the ordinary physical eyes that have come from the father and mother,

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