Any Śrāvaka or Bodhisattva
Who hears even a gāthā
Of Myōhō Renge Kyō which I am to expound
Will undoubtedly become a Buddha.
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Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for April 3, 2025
“[T]he good men or women who do not speak ill of Myōhō Renge Kyō but rejoice at hearing Myōhō Renge Kyō after my extinction, should be considered, know this, to have already understood my longevity by firm faith. It is needless to say this of those who [not only rejoice at hearing Myōhō Renge Kyō but also] read, recite and keep Myōhō Renge Kyō. They also should be considered to be carrying me on their heads. Ajita! They need not build a stupa or a monastery in my honor, or make the four kinds of offerings’ to the Saṃgha because those who keep, read and recite Myōhō Renge Kyō should be considered to have already built a stupa or a monastery or made offerings to the Saṃgha.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for April 2, 2025
Thereupon World-Holding Heavenly-King, accompanied by thousands of billions of nayutas of gandharvas who were surrounding him respectfully, came to the Buddha, joined his hands together, and said to him, “World-Honored One! I also will protect the keeper of Myōhō Renge Kyō with dhārānis, with divine spells.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for April 1, 2025
Just as the Moon God is brighter than the stars, Myōhō Renge Kyō gives us more light than any of the other sūtras numbering thousands of billions.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 31, 2025
“Medicine-King! Anyone who reads and recites Myōhō Renge Kyō, know this, will be adorned just as I am. I will shoulder him. Wherever he may be, bow to him! Join your hands together towards him with all your heart, respect him, make offerings to him, honor him, and praise him! Offer him flowers, incense, necklaces, incense powder, incense applicable to the skin, incense to burn, canopies, banners, streamers, garments, food and various kinds of music! Make him the best offerings that you can obtain in the world of men! Strew the treasures of heaven to him! Offer him heaps of the treasures of heaven! Why is that? It is because, while he is expounding Myōhō Renge Kyō with joy, if you hear it even for a moment, you will immediately be able to attain Anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 30, 2025
Anyone who expounds Myōhō Renge Kyō will be able to locate
All living beings from afar by smell.
He will be able to locate by smell
The wheel-turning-kings of great [countries],
The wheel-turning-kings of small [countries],
And their sons, ministers and attendants.He will be able to locate by smell
The wonderful treasures of personal ornaments,
The underground stores of treasures,
And the ladies of the wheel-turning-kings.He will be able to recognize persons
By smelling their ornaments or garments
Or by smelling their necklaces
Or by smelling the incense applied to their skin.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 29, 2025
Anyone who keeps Myōhō Renge Kyō
After my extinction
Will be able to obtain
Innumerable merits a previously stated.He should be considered
To have already made various offerings.
He should be considered
To have already built a stupa
With a yasti soaring up to the Heaven of Brahman,
The upper part of it being the smaller,
A stupa which was adorned with the seven treasures,
And with thousands of billions of jeweled bells
Sounding wonderful when fanned by the wind.
He should be considered to have already enshrined
My śarīras in this stupa,
And offered flowers, incense, necklaces, heavenly garments,
And various kinds of music to it,
And lit lamps of perfumed oil around it for innumerable kalpas.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 28, 2025
Anyone who believes and receives Myōhō Renge Kyō
Should be considered
To have already seen the past Buddhas,
Respected them, made offerings to them,
And heard the Dharma from them
In his previous existence.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 27, 2025
“Mañjuśrī! Myōhō Renge Kyō is the most excellent and profound teaching of all the Tathāgatas. Therefore, I expound Myōhō Renge Kyō lastly just as the powerful king gave the brilliant gem lastly, the one which he had kept in his topknot for a long time.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 26, 2025
[Universal-Sage Bodhisattva said to the Buddha:]
If anyone keeps, reads and recites Myōhō Renge Kyō while he walks or stands, I will mount a kingly white elephant with six tusks, go to him together with great Bodhisattvas, show myself to him, make offerings to him, protect him, and comfort him, because I wish to make offerings to Myōhō Renge Kyō. If he sits and thinks over Myōhō Renge Kyō, I also will mount a kingly white elephant and appear before him. If he forgets a phrase or a gāthā of Myōhō Renge Kyō, I will remind him of it, and read and recite Myōhō Renge Kyō with him so that he may be able to understand Myōhō Renge Kyō.