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དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 9.13

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 9.13

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9.13

on the kings of mountains, Meru or Sumeru, or who live as far down below as the Avīci hell or as high above as the summit of existence.

“They will see in their own bodies the bodies that have been attained by the śrāvakas, pratyeka­buddhas, bodhisattvas, and tathāgatas who are present in the world realm of a thousand million worlds, and of those to whom the tathāgatas are teaching the Dharma, and the beings who are honoring those tathāgatas. Why is that? It is because their bodies will have become completely purified.”

Thereupon the Bhagavān spoke these verses:

“The ones who possess this vast sūtra
Will have bodies that are completely purified,
As pure as if they were made of beryl
And will always bring joy to the beings who see them. {61}

“Just as a reflection appears in a clean⁴⁸⁸ mirror,
In that way they will see the worlds appear in their bodies.
They, the self-arisen ones, will see that and no other being;
That is what these purified bodies will be like. {62}

“They will see within their bodies the images of
Whatever beings there are in this world realm:
Humans, devas, asuras, and guhyakas,
Hell beings, pretas, and those born as animals. {63}

“In that way they will see in their bodies
All the airborne palaces of devas up to the summit of existence,
The mountains of rock, the Cakravāla mountains,
The Himalayas, Sumeru, and the great Meru. {64}

“In that way they will see the buddhas in their bodies,
With their śrāvakas and other offspring of the buddhas,
The bodhisattvas who are dwelling alone,
And those teaching the Dharma among crowds. {65}

“They will acquire that kind of pure body,
In which appears the entire world realm.

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