[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Tibetan canon (Kangyur & Tengyur)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet) › [Kangyur (translated words of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur) › [General sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde) › [འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བྱམས་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་གནམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་བླངས་པའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199) › [The Sutra on Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000) › 12 # འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆབ་སམས་དཔའ་བྱམས་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་གནམ་ད་སྐྱ་བ་བླངས་པའ་མད 12 The Sūtra on Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy 12 - **Language:** English ### [12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.12) to welcome them as they are instantly reborn in the divine realm. They will meet face-to-face with the noble Maitreya and bow their heads to him. At that very moment, they will hear the Dharma, attain the path of unsurpassed awakening, and obtain the nonregressing wheel of Dharma. In future lives, they will behold as many thus-gone ones as there are grains of sand in the Ganges river. “Upāli,⁶⁸ listen attentively and pay heed. When sentient beings in the future take refuge in the bodhisattva Maitreya, those who do so will attain the unsurpassed path and the nonregressing wheel of Dharma. Then, once the bodhisattva Maitreya attains the state of a thus-gone one, a worthy one, a perfect buddha, those people will see the light of that thus-gone one and receive a prophecy. “Upāli,⁶⁹ after the Thus-Gone One’s nirvāṇa, when the time comes for anyone—whether they are in the four retinues or a god, nāga, or yakṣa—to be reborn in the Heaven of Joy, then they must engage in the following contemplations: Thinking of the Heaven of Joy, they should take up the vows of the Thus-Gone One. Then, whether for a single day or for up to seven days, they should contemplate the ten virtues and practice the path of the ten virtues. Then the merit from this practice should be dedicated, and the aspiration made to be in the presence of Maitreya. Those who carry out these contemplations will behold a god and a lotus. Those who recite the name of Maitreya even once will be freed from twelve hundred eons of birth and death and will have their misdeeds purified. Those who hear the name of Maitreya and join their palms together⁷⁰ will be freed from fifty eons of birth and death. Those who respectfully prostrate to Maitreya will be liberated from one billion eons of birth and death and will have their misdeeds purified. They will not be attached to the heavenly realms, - [Previous: 11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.11) - [Next: 13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.13) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བྱམས་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་གནམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་བླངས་པའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199.12) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.12) · Pramāṇa