[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Samādhirājasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja) › [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo) › [The King of Samadhis Sutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000) › 2.13 # 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 2.13 The King of Samādhis Sūtra 2.13 - **Language:** English ### [2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2.13) The endless suffering and harm of living in a home, And that practicing the Dharma is offering to the Dharma. {20} “When the king, the sovereign, had heard those verses, That ruler of men contemplated entering solitude. He thought that all who dwell at home Are unable to make the supreme offering to the Dharma. {21} “He cast away the kingdom like a lump of phlegm And together with eighty thousand persons He came into the presence of the Jina, Bowed to his feet, and sat before him. {22} “The Jina, knowing what they intended, Taught this samādhi of peace that is difficult to see. Happy, inspired, and joyful, they were satisfied. Pleased and delighted, they entered homelessness. {23} “Homeless, they possessed this samādhi. They kept it, read it, and understood it. For two hundred million eons They did not fall into the lower existences. {24} “Because of those roots of merit,²⁹⁷ They all saw ten thousand million buddhas And in the teaching of those jinas They entered homelessness and meditated on this samādhi. {25} “In later times they became buddhas With infinite diligence, all named Dṛḍhaśūra. They benefited many millions of beings And after, like an extinguished flame, attained nirvāṇa. {26} “The one who previously had been King Mahābala Appeared in the world as Buddha Jñānaśūra. He brought many billions of beings To enlightenment, and then attained nirvāṇa. {27} “Therefore you who, in later times, hear and possess This sūtra that has been taught by the buddhas: If you possess this treasure of the Dharma You will quickly become a supreme human.” {28} Chapter 6 Cultivating the Samādhi The Bhagavān now said to the youth Candraprabha,²⁹⁸ “Therefore, young man, bodhisattva mahāsattvas who wish for this samādhi, and wish to attain quickly the highest, complete enlightenment of perfect buddhahood, should cultivate this samādhi. “Young man, what is the cultivation of this samādhi? - [Previous: 2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2.12) - [Next: 2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2.14) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo.2.13) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2.13) · Pramāṇa