ཤ་རིའི་བུ་གཞན་ཡང་དེའི་དུས་ན་བདུད་ཀྱིས་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབས་པའི་དགེ་སློང་དག་འབྱུང་བར་འགྱུར་ཏེ། གང་མདོ་སྡེ་འདི་ཐོས་ནས་སྐྱེ་བོ་མང་པོའི་མདུན་དུ་མདོ་སྡེ་འདི་ནི་རང་བཟོར་བྱས་པ་ཡིན་ཏེ། འདི་ནི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་གསུངས་པ་མ་ཡིན་ན་ཞེས་སྤོང་བར་འགྱུར་རོ། ། ཡང་ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེའི་དུས་ན་དགེ་སློང་གང་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡོང་མི་ཉན་པ་དག་ཀྱང་འབྱུང་བར་འགྱུར་རོ། །
“In the same way, Śāriputra, in a future time, on a future occasion, in five hundred years time, at the time of the disappearance of the true Dharma, there will be little faith, little renunciation, little wisdom, and little vigor. Even though some people might hear a precious sūtra like this in a discourse and grasp a little bit of what they hear, even just one four-line verse, they will still be terrorized by the evil Māra. There will not be many who have respect for the true Dharma. There will not be many who worship it. There will not be many who praise it. If it is not respected, worshiped, and praised, it will be lost to oblivion. Those who do study it and understand it will be very few and far between. There will be few who will dwell in solitude in order to investigate their minds, to meditate. Those who do so will not be filled with joy but will constantly complain, ‘Oh, what a pity! The excellent instructions of the Tathāgata are fading, and I will not be able to hear any more of them. I will not be able to study any more of them.’ This is how they will remember the tathāgata, arhat, fully accomplished Buddha for some time.
Light, Reality, Assembly