The Sūtra on Offering Lamps

The Sūtra on Offering Lamps consists of a teaching given by the Buddha to the venerable Śāriputra while in Śrāvastī. The Buddha begins by describing the qualities of the buddhas that make them worthy objects of offering, and he then teaches at length on the benefits of offering even the most meager of lamps, with the aspiration to attain complete buddhahood, to the stūpa of a buddha who has passed into parinirvāṇa. The Buddha details the karmic results for a person who makes such an offering, narrating their future birth in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three and their subsequent rebirth as a distinguished and fortunate human being.