དེ་སྐད་ཅེས་གསོལ་པ་དང་། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཀུན་དགའ་བོ་ལ་འདི་སྐད་ཅེས་བཀའ་སྩལ་ཏོ། །ཀུན་དགའ་བོ་དེའི་ཕྱིར་ཁྱོད་ཉིད་ལ་དྲིས། ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་ཇི་ལྟར་བཟོད་པ་དེ་བཞིན་དུ་ལན་ཐོབ་ཤིག །ཀུན་དགའ་བོ་འདི་ཇི་སྙམ་དུ་སེམས།
Ānanda, in your opinion, which of these two has the greater merit—those sons of enlightened heritage or daughters of enlightened heritage who continuously honor, venerate, respect, and make offerings to the relics of the tathāgatas with flowers, and so forth, up to and including ribbons and diverse musical sounds, or those other sons of enlightened heritage or daughters of enlightened heritage who share a mustard seed-size relic of the tathāgatas with others, so that they too receive a mustard seed-size relic of the tathāgatas, and then honor, venerate, respect, and make offerings to that [relic] with flowers, and so forth, up to and including ribbons and diverse musical sounds?”
Buddhism, Enlightenment, Ānanda