འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 48

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unceasing, peaceful from the beginning, and naturally in nirvāṇa. That turning of the wheel of the dharma by the Bhagavān was also surpassable, left room [for interpretation], and served as an object of controversy because it was of interpretable meaning.

Then the Bhagavān set in motion the third wheel of the dharma, which is fully differentiated, exceedingly marvelous and wondrous, for those correctly entered upon all vehicles, starting from the naturelessness of phenomena, and starting from their being unproduced, unceasing, peaceful from the beginning, and naturally in nirvāṇa. This turning of the wheel of the dharma by the Bhagavān is unsurpassable, leaves no room [for interpretation], is of definitive meaning, and does not serve as an object of controversy.

Bhagavān, how much merit will a son of good family or a daughter of good family generate who, having heard this teaching of the definitive meaning by the Bhagavān—starting from the naturelessness of phenomena up to their being naturally in nirvāṇa—develops conviction in it, causes it to be written down, holds it after having written it down, reads it, venerates it, thoroughly expounds it, receives its transmission, recites it, reflects upon it, and engages in it through the application of meditation?”

When he had spoken thus, the Bhagavān said this to the bodhisattva Paramārthasamudgata: “Paramārthasamudgata, that son of good family or daughter of good family generates immeasurable,