འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.13

3.13

the merit attained through the supplication to the buddhas to turn the wheel of the Dharma would be far superior to that.

“³⁷³There are five superior benefits in a gift of the Dharma. What are those five? They are as follows: First, the gift of the Dharma is beneficial for oneself and others, but material gifts are not like that. Second, the gift of the Dharma brings beings out of the three realms, while the merit from a material gift does not transcend the desire realm. Third, the gift of the Dharma purifies³⁷⁴ the Dharma body, but material gifts only cause an increase in material forms. Fourth, the gift of the Dharma has no end, but material gifts will be used up. Fifth, the gift of the Dharma eliminates ignorance, but material gifts only overcome the craving³⁷⁵ of desire.

“Therefore, noble one, the merit from requesting and supplicating is measureless, cannot be quantified, and has no easy analogy.

“It is through the roots of goodness from requesting the tathāgatas to turn the great wheel of the Dharma when I was practicing bodhisattva conduct in the past that in this time Śakra, the king of the Brahmā devas, and so on, prayed that I turn the great wheel of the Dharma.

“Noble one,³⁷⁶ this is because the request for the Dharma wheel to be turned is for the sake of the liberation and happiness of beings.³⁷⁷

“It is through the roots of goodness from requesting the tathāgatas to remain for a long time in the world and not pass into nirvāṇa while I was practicing bodhisattva conduct in the past that I have attained the ten strengths, the four confidences, the four discernments,