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SIXTH VOW:

TO REQUEST THE BUDDHAS TO SET IN MOTION "THE WHEEL OF DHARMA"

 

 

          6.  Again, O Noble-minded Man, what is meant by requesting the Buddhas to set in motion "the Wheel of Dharma"?  It means that I will apply my bodily, speech, and mental efforts, and various expedient means, and the most skillful methods, earnestly to request the Buddhas to rotate the wondrous Wheel of Dharma.   Such Buddhas are incalculable in number as the smallest (flying) dust-motes of the Buddha-domains of the ten directions, and the three periods of time, throughout the Dharma-realms and the empty space; each dust-motes respectively contains therein unutterable and innumerable vast Buddha lands, equal in number to the smallest dust-motes.  In each country dwell innumerable and ineffable Buddhas equal to the smallest dust-motes in number.  Each moment there are Buddhas, equal to the smallest dust-motes in number, who are attaining enlightenment, and each are surrounded by an ocean-wide assembly of all Bodhisattvas.  I constantly request such Buddhas to turn the Wheel of Right Dharma.  Thus, even though the space of void has ended, and likewise the states of beings, the karmas of beings, and the sorrows of beings, all have ended, yet my request is endless.  Thought succeeding thought without interruption, and in bodily, vocal, and mental deeds, without weariness.

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Lotus

The Practices and Vows of The Bodhisattva Samantabhadra

 
“The supreme and endless blessings of Samantabhadra's deeds, I now universally transfer.
May every living being, drowning and adrift,
Soon return to the Land of Limitless Light! ”
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- The Vows of Samantabhadra -

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