Day 27

Day 27 concludes Chapter 23, The Previous Life of Medicine-King Bodhisattva.


Having last month considered Gladly-Seen-By-All-Beings Bodhisattva offering, we consider the merits of keeping even a single gāthā of four lines of the Lotus Sūtra

“Star-King-Flower! Anyone who aspires for, and wishes to attain Anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi, should offer a light to the stupa of the Buddha by burning a finger or a toe. Then he will be given more merits than the person who offers not only countries, cities, wives and children, but also the mountains, forests, rivers and ponds of the one thousand million Sumeru-worlds, and various kinds of treasures. But the merits to be given to the person who fills the one thousand million Sumeru-worlds with the seven treasures and offers that amount of the seven treasures to the Buddhas, to the Great Bodhisattvas, to the Pratyekabuddhas, and to the Arhats, are less than the merits to be given to the person who keeps even a single gāthā of four lines of this Sūtra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma.

See The Merit of Upholding Even One Verse of the Lotus Sūtra