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His Holiness the 42nd Sakya Trizin, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche spoke of the significance of Chötrul Düchen in commemorating the fifteen days during which the Buddha performed a different beneficial miracle each day in Śrāvastī. The merit of our positive actions during these fifteen days is enormously enhanced, and one of the most positive things we can do, he said, is to study the Buddha’s words, the sūtras. He then introduced The Aparimitāyurjñāna Sūtra which the Buddha taught as a practice anyone can do to loosen the hold of conditions that might shorten life. Honoring the Buddha Aparimitāyurjñāna through reciting this text brings many benefits and is accessible to all. After explaining the initial passages of the text that set out its purpose, His Holiness kindly gave the transmission by reading the whole text in Tibetan.