English: Burton Watson Việt ngữ: Tỳ Kheo Thích Trí Tịnh Compile: Lotus group At that time the bodhisattva and mahasattva Maitreya said to the Buddha: World-Honored One, if there are good men or good women who, hearing this Lotus Sutra, respond with joy, what amount of blessings do they acquire?” Then he spoke in verse,…

English: Burton Watson Việt ngữ: Tỳ Kheo Thích Trí Tịnh Compile: Lotus group   At that time, when the great assembly heard the Buddha describe how his life span lasted such a very long number of kalpas, immeasurable, boundless asamkhayas of living beings gained a great many rich benefits. – Lúc bấy giờ, trong đại-hội…

English: Burton Watson Việt ngữ: Tỳ Kheo Thích Trí Tịnh Compile: Lotus group At that time the Buddha spoke to the Bodhisattvas and all the great assembly: “Good men, you must believe and understand the truthful words of the Thus Come One.” And again, he said to the great assembly: You must believe and understand…

English: Burton Watson Việt ngữ: Tỳ Kheo Thích Trí Tịnh Compile: Lotus group At that time the bodhisattvas and mahasattvas who had gathered from the lands of the other directions, greater in number than sands of eight Ganges, stood up in the midst of the great assembly, pressed their palms together, bowed in obeisance and…

English: Burton Watson Việt ngữ: Tỳ Kheo Thích Trí Tịnh Compile: Lotus group   At that time Manjushri, Dharma prince, bodhisattva and mahasattva, said to the Buddha: “World-Honored One, these bodhisattvas undertake something that is very difficult. Because they revere and obey the Buddha, they have taken a great vow that in the evil age…

English: Burton Watson Việt ngữ: Tỳ Kheo Thích Trí Tịnh Compile: Lotus group   At that time the Bodhisattva and mahasattva Medicine King, along with the bodhisattva and mahasattva Great Joy of Preaching and twenty thousand bodhisattva followers who were accompanying them, all in the presence of the Buddha took this vow, saying: “We beg…

English: Burton Watson. Việt ngữ: Tỳ Kheo Thích Trí Tịnh. Compile: Lotus group.   At that time the Buddha addressed the bodhisattvas, the heavenly and human beings, and the four kinds of believers saying: “Immeasurable kalpas in the past, I sought the Lotus Sutra without ever flagging. During those many kalpas, I constantly appeared as…

English: Burton Watson Việt ngữ: Tỳ Kheo Thích Trí Tịnh Compile: Lotus group           At that time in the Buddha’s presence there was a tower adorned with the seven treasures, five hundred yojanas in height and two hundred and fifty yojanas in width and depth, that rose up out of the…

English: Burton Watson. Việt ngữ: Tỳ Kheo Thích Trí Tịnh. Compile: Lotus group.     At that time the World-Honored One addressed Bodhisattva Medicine King. And through him the eighty thousand great men, saying: “Medicine King, do you see in this great assembly the immeasurable number of heavenly beings, dragons kings, yakshas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas,…

English: Burton Watson. Việt ngữ: Tỳ Kheo Thích Trí Tịnh. Compile: Lotus group.     At that time Ananda and Rahula thought to themselves, whenever we reflect, we consider how delightful it would be if we should receive a prophecy of enlightenment! Immediately they rose from their seats, advanced to a position in front of…