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The Lotus sutra – translated by Burton Watson
My major disciple
Subhuti
is destined to become a Buddha
with the title Rare Form.

He will offer alms to countless
tens of thousands and millions of Buddhas.
By following the practices of the Buddhas
he will gradually fulfill the great way,
and in his final incarnation
will acquire the thirty-two features.

He will be imposing, exceptional, wonderful,
like a jeweled mountain.
His Buddha land
will be foremost in adornment and purity;
no living being who sees it
will fail to love and delight in it.
There in the midst, that Buddha
will save unreckonable multitudes.

In that Buddha's Law
will be many bodhisattvas,
all of them with keen capacities,
turning the wheel of non-regression.
That land will constantly
be adorned with bodhisattvas.

The multitude of voice-hearers
will be beyond calculation,
all gaining the three understandings
and exercising the six transcendental powers.
They will dwell in the eight emancipations
and possess great authority and virtue.

The Law preached by that Buddha
will manifest immeasurable
transcendental powers and transformations
of a wondrous nature.

Heavenly and human beings
in numbers like Ganges sands
will all press their palms together,
listen to and receive the Buddha's words.

That Buddha will have a life span
of twelve small kalpas,
his Correct Law will endure in the world
for twenty small kalpas
and his Counterfeit Law
for twenty small kalpas.