法苑珠林 86.23

86.23

"Good man, if anyone reads, recites, accepts, upholds, and practices this dhāraṇī in accordance with the Dharma for ninety-seven days, reciting it forty-nine times before making one repentance, proceeding as instructed by the teacher, if these evil karmas are not eliminated, that is utterly impossible. If she sees the matters mentioned above in a dream, one should know that this nun abides in the ground of purity and possesses the pure precepts. If there is a śrāmaṇera, śrāmaṇerikā, upāsaka, or upāsikā who has broken the prohibitive precepts, they too should invite a bhikṣu who understands the internal and external Vinaya, and before the image [of the Buddha] or before the revered sūtra of prajñā, declare their own faults and speak to this bhikṣu. This bhikṣu should instruct them according to the rules of the pure Vinaya.