The City of 10,000 Buddhas - Sutra Texts - The Lotus Sutra
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At that time the Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas, who had come from other lands in numbers exceeding
the grains of sand in eight Ganges Rivers, rose up in the great assembly, placed their
palms together, made obeisance, and said to the Buddha,\u201cWorld Honored One, if you will allow
us, after the Buddha\u2019s tranquility, here in this Saha world we will with ever-increasing vigor
protect, maintain, read, recite, write out, and make offerings to this Sutra, and we will speak it far and
wide throughout this land.\u201d
The Buddha then told the host of Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas,\u201cStop! Good men, you do not need
to protect and maintain this Sutra. Why not? Within my Saha world itself there are
Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas equal in number to the sands of sixty thousand Ganges Rivers, each of
whom has a retinue equal in number to the sands of sixty thousand Ganges Rivers. After
my tranquility, all of them will protect, uphold, read, recite, and vastly speak this Sutra.\u201d
Just as the Buddha said this, the earth in the three thousand great thousand lands in the Saha
world trembled and split open, and from its midst limitless thousands of tens of thousands of
millions of Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas simultaneously welled forth.
Chapter 15 - Welling forth from the Earth
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