法苑珠林 33.71

33.71

The Three Jewels arise obscurely, / The standard model for the four kinds of birth. / Compassion shades the ten directions, / Grace flows with ten thousand virtues. / Wisdom encompasses the eight storehouses, / Transformation extends through hundreds of millions. / Recompensing their kindness is of weighty significance, / Which stems from the power of merit. / Painting colors and carving forms, / Transmitting scriptures and establishing merit, / Ferrying by boats and bridges, / And promoting matching baths: / Not sparing body or life, / How could utmost sincerity be suppressed? / Magnificent is this supreme karma, / Its accomplishment is hard to fathom!