Talk:Aspiration prayers

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Many Sutras describe the specific aspirations different Buddhas and Bodhisattvas made that led to their special qualities:

• Shakyamuni in White Lotus of Compassion Sutra

May I first inspire toward the highest, most complete enlightenment those beings whose mental continuums are burning, who possess bad roots, who are devoid of the seven jewels, who are discarded within empty buddha realms, who have committed the actions with immediate results at death, who have rejected the good Dharma, who have been ruined on a bad path, and who are in great despair, and may I cause them to enter into and be established in the path to the highest, most complete enlightenment.

• Amitabha in Amitabhavyuha Sutra

If, when I attain Buddhahood, sentient beings in the lands of the ten directions who sincerely and joyfully entrust themselves to me, desire to be born in my land, and think of me even ten times should not be born there, may I not attain perfect enlightenment. Excluded, however, are those who commit the five crimes with immediate retribution and abuse the Right Dharma.

• Medicine Buddha, in The Detailed Account of the Previous Aspirations of the Seven Thus-Gone Ones

In the future, when I have attained awakening as a perfect buddha who has realized unsurpassed and perfect awakening, may beings whose bodies are afflicted by various types of illnesses, who are vulnerable, who are defenseless, who lack necessities and medicines, who have no one to care for them, who are poor, and who suffer hear my name, and may all their illnesses be quelled. May they be healthy and live free from harm for as long as it takes them to attain awakening.

• Manjushri in The Array of Virtues of Manjushri’s Buddha Realm

Until I have surveyed all the infinite and limitless worlds throughout the ten directions with unobscured buddha eyes and have seen nothing but blessed buddhas‍—so that there is no longer anyone for me to introduce to awakening; or to establish in the mind set on awakening; or to establish in generosity; or to establish in discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, or insight; or to encourage; or to teach‍—for that long, may I not fully awaken to unsurpassed and perfect buddhahood.