འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་རང་བཞན་མཉམ་པ་ཉད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.17

1.17

As numerous as the grains of sand in the ocean,
And if within each head there were tongues
As numerous as the number of heads, {23}

“And if all their voices were to describe the benefit
Of possessing one verse from this samādhi,
They would not be able to describe even a fraction of it,
Let alone describe the benefit of studying it, or of possessing it. {24}

“Whoever has accomplished the practice and developed qualities
Will be adored by devas, asuras, and yakṣas.
The ones who maintain the samādhi of peace, difficult to attain,
Will have kings as their attendants. {25}

“The ones who maintain the samādhi of peace that is difficult to attain
Will be in the care of the jinas.
They will always be attended by devas and nāgas
And opponents will not be able to withstand their brilliance. {26}

“The ones who maintain the samādhi of peace
Will have infinite eloquence.¹⁹⁴
They will teach countless¹⁹⁵ thousands of sūtras
Without the slightest interval. {27}

“Those in the future time of great terrors
Who hear this samādhi and keep it
Will see the guide, Buddha Amitābha,
And also the realm of Sukhāvatī. {28}

“I have revealed these benefits
And I, the self-arisen Teacher, request
That you uphold this pure samādhi
In the time after I have passed into nirvāṇa. {29}

“The buddhas who have passed into nirvāṇa,
Those who will come in the future and those who have appeared now,¹⁹⁶
All those jinas realize unstained, noncomposite enlightenment
Through the practice of this samādhi.” {30}

Chapter 3

Praise of the Buddha’s Qualities

Then the Bhagavān said to the youth Candraprabha, “Young man, therefore, if bodhisattva mahāsattvas wish to teach the buddha qualities as described by the Tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened Buddha, without any loss of meaning or words, and for all their words to come forth as those of the Buddha, then those bodhisattva mahāsattvas, young man,