གཞག་པ་མེད་པ་དང་། འགྲོ་བ་མེད་པ་དང་། འོང་བ་མེད་པ་དང་། གནས་པ་མེད་པ་དང་། ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྣོད་ཡིན་པའི་ཕྱིར་མཆོད་པ་བརྙེས་སོ། །ཀུན་དགའ་བོ་གཞན་ཡང་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་གང་གཱའི་ཀླུང་གི་བྱེ་མ་སྙེད་དག་གི་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་རྫོགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་དང་། དེ་བཞིན་དུ་ལྷོ་དང་། ནུབ་དང་། བྱང་ཕྱོགས་དང་། འོག་དང་། སྟེང་གི་ཕྱོགས་དང་།
“Moreover, Ānanda, when, on the one hand, there are some sons of enlightened heritage or daughters of enlightened heritage who, for an eon, a period exceeding an eon, a hundred eons, a thousand eons, a hundred thousand eons, many hundreds of eons, many thousands of eons, many hundred thousands of eons, or many hundreds of billion trillion eons, honor, venerate, respect, and make offerings with flowers, garlands, perfume, unguents, powders, religious robes, clothing, parasols, victory banners, ribbons, and diverse musical sounds to the tathāgatas, arhats, genuinely perfect buddhas of the world systems of the eastern direction, numerous as the sands of the River Ganges, and similarly to the tathāgatas, arhats, genuinely perfect buddhas of the world systems of the southern, western, and northern directions, along with the nadir, the zenith, and likewise the four intermediate directions, numerous as the sands of the River Ganges, and, on the other hand, there are some other sons of enlightened heritage or daughters of enlightened heritage who retain, hold, recite, and master this transcendent perfection of wisdom, and are attentive to it in the correct manner, committing it to writing, and having it committed to writing, and who then honor, venerate, respect, and make offerings to this volume of the scripture with flowers, garlands, perfume, unguents, powders, religious robes, clothing, parasols, victory banners, ribbons, and diverse musical sounds—among these stocks of merit, the stock of merit acquired through this transcendent perfection of wisdom is ‘supreme,’ ‘foremost,’ ‘superior,’ and ‘unsurpassed,’ in contrast to the aforementioned stock of merit acquired through [making offerings to] the tathāgatas.
Buddhism, Enlightenment, Ānanda