འཕགས་པ་བསད་ནམས་ཐམས་ཅད་བསྡས་པའ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་ཅས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.15

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as well as black mountains, grasses, shrubs, herbs, forests, villages, cities, towns, countries, kingdoms, royal palaces, the continent of Jambudvīpa, the eastern continent of Videha, the western continent of Godānīya, the northern continent of Uttarakuru, four-continent world systems, thousandfold world systems, millionfold world systems, great billionfold world systems, the desire realm, the form realm, the formless realm, the moon, the sun, the planets, and the stars, all of this, up to and including the billionfold four-continent world systems.

“In the same way, Nārāyaṇa, the initial moment a bodhisattva great being arouses the mind of awakening gathers together and includes every possible merit—the merit of ordinary beings, the merit from training, the merit not from training, the merit of solitary buddhas, and the merit of bodhisattvas. From these descriptions, Nārāyaṇa, you should understand how those beings who form the resolve toward unsurpassed and completely perfect awakening come to possess all merit.

“Nārāyaṇa, aside from those who have genuinely entered the Great Vehicle, the wheel-bearing monarch is said to have the most superior merit and insight among the beings in the world system of four continents. Imagine, Nārāyaṇa, that every being in the four-continent world system were now to acquire as much merit as a wheel-bearing monarch. If each and every being acquired precisely the same amount of merit as the wheel-bearing monarch,