The Auspicious Verses of the Seven Successive Buddhas
Translation of སངས་རྒྱས་རབས་བདན་གྱ་བཀྲ་ཤས་ཀྱ་ཚགས་ས་བཅད་པ (སངས་རྒྱས་རབས་བདུན་གྱི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཀྱི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ)
- Language
- English
- Date
- 2018 CE
- Translator
- Adam Pearcey
- Extent
- 32 passages, 318 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- lotsawahouse · Adam Pearcey (tr.), The Auspicious Verses of the Seven Successive Buddhas, Lotsawa House (version… · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site
Contents
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The bhagavat Vipaśyin, majestic and of the warrior caste,
p2
Was born in the city called Beautiful when humans lived for 80,000 years,
p3
And attained full enlightenment beneath a śirīṣa tree—
p4
May the auspiciousness of this sugata abound here and now!
p5
The sugata Śikhin, a miracle-worker of the warrior caste,
p6
Was born in the city of Suka when humans lived for 70,000 years,
p7
And attained full enlightenment beneath a sundha tree—
p8
May the auspiciousness of this sugata abound here and now!
p9
The conqueror Viśvabhū, intelligent and of the warrior caste,
p10
Was born in the city called Matchless when humans lived for 60,000 years,
p11
And attained full enlightenment beneath a sāla tree—
p12
May the auspiciousness of this sugata abound here and now!
p13
The sage Krakucchanda, powerful and of the brahmin caste,
p14
Was born in the city called Beautiful when humans lived for 40,000 years,
p15
And attained full enlightenment beneath a śirīṣa tree—
p16
May the auspiciousness of this sugata abound here and now!
p17
The guide Kanakamuni, supremely disciplined and of the brahmin caste,
p18
Was born in the city called Joyous when humans lived for 30,000 years,
p19
And attained full enlightenment beneath an uḍumbara tree—
p20
May the auspiciousness of this sugata abound here and now!
p21
The protector Kāśyapa, unsurpassed in qualities and of the warrior caste,
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Was born in the city called Vārāṇasī when humans lived for 20,000 years,
p23
And attained full enlightenment beneath a nyagrodha tree—
p24
May the auspiciousness of this sugata abound here and now!
p25
The lord of living beings Śākyamuni, diligent and of the warrior caste,
p26
Was born in the city called Kapilavastu when humans lived for 100 years,
p27
And attained full enlightenment beneath an aśvattha tree—
p28
May the auspiciousness of this sugata abound here and now!
p29
The abundant auspiciousness of these seven successive buddhas,
p30
Wondrous blessings of all the sugatas throughout space and time,
p31
Utter purity of the dharmadhātu and the unchanging power of interdependence—
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May the auspiciousness of these sugatas abound here and now!