The Sutra on Offering Lamps

The Sutra on Offering Lamps (Skt. Pradīpadānīyasūtra; Tib. འཕགས་པ་མར་མེ་འབུལ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ’phags pa mar me ’bul ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo) consists of a teaching given by the Buddha to the venerable Shariputra while in Shravasti. The Buddha begins by describing the qualities of the buddhas that make them worthy objects of offering, and he then teaches at length on the benefits of offering even the most meagre of lamps, with the aspiration to attain complete buddhahood, to the stupa of a buddha who has passed into parinirvana. The Buddha details the karmic results for a person who makes such an offering, narrating their future birth in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three and their subsequent rebirth as a distinguished and fortunate human being.

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The Tibetan translation of this sutra can be found in the General Sutra section of the Tibetan Dergé Kangyur, Toh 204

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