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བྱམས་པས་ཞུས་པ།
The Question of Maitreya (3)
彌勒菩薩所問本願經
Maitreya­paripṛcchā

The bodhisattva Maitreya approaches the Buddha on Vulture Peak Mountain and asks him to explain the karmic results of teaching the Dharma. The Buddha responds by comparing the merit gained by a person who makes an unfathomably enormous material offering to the buddhas, to the merit gained by another person who teaches a single verse of Dharma, declaring that the merit of the latter is far superior.

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