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འཕགས་པ་སྒྱ་མ་ལྟ་བའ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་ཅས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 36

The Illusory Absorption 36

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36

“Blessed One, will the name of that world also be Sukhāvatī?”

The Blessed One said, “No, son of noble family, it will not. That world will be called Complete Gathering of Wealth. Son of noble family, during the lifetime of Samanta­raśmyabhyudgata­śrī­kūta­rāja, until he passes into nirvāṇa, he will be worshipped by the bodhisattva Mahā­sthāmaprāpta. After he passes into nirvāṇa, that bodhisattva will uphold his sacred Dharma and propagate it, so that the sacred Dharma may remain for long.

“Later, when the sacred Dharma has disappeared in that buddha realm, Mahā­sthāmaprāpta will awaken there to unsurpassed and perfect buddhahood. He will appear in that world as a thus-gone, worthy, perfect buddha, a learned and virtuous being, a blissful one, someone who knows the world, an unsurpassed charioteer who tames beings, a teacher of gods and men, a blessed buddha known as Supra­tiṣṭhita­guṇa­maṇi­kūṭa­rāja. Just as were the perfect bodhisattvas and the perfect environment belonging to the Blessed One, the thus-gone, worthy, perfect Buddha Samanta­raśmyabhyudgata­śrī­kūta­rāja, so will they be, precisely and without any difference, for the Blessed One, the thus-gone Supra­tiṣṭhita­guṇa­maṇi­kūṭa­rāja. His lifespan and the period of his sacred Dharma will also be the same.

“Any son or daughter of noble family who hears the names of the Blessed One, the thus-gone Samanta­raśmyabhyudgata­śrī­kūta­rāja, or the Blessed One, the thus-gone Supra­tiṣṭhita­guṇa­maṇi­kūṭa­rāja, will render irreversible their progress to unsurpassed and perfect awakening.

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