Chinese
那些获得智慧的人，对于如来的善巧方便和不可思议的智慧，能够断除一切疑惑，并获得清净的见地。如是宣说如来寿命量时，有恒河沙六十八倍俱胝那由他菩萨获得无生法忍，以其千倍之菩萨摩诃萨获得总持，有千个世界微尘数之菩萨摩诃萨获得无碍辩才，有世界微尘极微尘数之菩萨摩诃萨于百千俱胝中获得圆满舍离之总持，如是有千个世界微尘数之菩萨转不退转法轮，中千世界微尘数之菩萨转名为无垢光明之法轮，小千世界微尘数之菩萨于八生之内证得无上圆满菩提，四大洲之微尘数于四生之内证得，三大洲之微尘数于三生之内证得，两大洲之微尘数于二生之内证得，一四大洲之微尘数之菩萨于一生之内证得无上圆满菩提。三千大千世界八倍之微尘极微尘数之菩萨听闻此法门后，发心趣向无上正等正觉。彼时，从上方虚空中降下天花、香、乐器和伞等供养云，于佛陀薄伽梵及其眷属，以及百千俱胝佛土中，发出供养和赞叹之声。世尊告曰：弥勒，如来说示如来寿命量之法门时，任何众生哪怕仅仅生起一念信心或净信，都是殊胜的。
English
Those who have attained wisdom will have all doubts dispelled and pure vision attained regarding the Tathagata's skillful means and inconceivable wisdom. Thus, when explaining the measure of the Tathagata's lifespan, a billion trillion nayutas of bodhisattvas, like the sands of sixty-eight Ganges Rivers, attain forbearance of the unoriginated dharma. A thousand times that number of great bodhisattvas attain dharanis. A thousand times the number of dust motes in a world of great bodhisattvas attain unobstructed eloquence. A number of great bodhisattvas equal to the atoms of atoms in a world attain dharanis that completely relinquish hundreds of thousands of billions. Similarly, bodhisattvas equal to the dust motes of a thousand worlds turn the irreversible wheel. Bodhisattvas equal to the dust motes of the middle thousand world systems turn the wheel of dharma called "Immaculate Light." Bodhisattvas equal to the dust motes of the small thousand world systems are obstructed by eight births from attaining unsurpassed perfect enlightenment. Bodhisattvas equal to the dust motes of four continents are obstructed by four births. Bodhisattvas equal to the dust motes of three continents are obstructed by three births. Bodhisattvas equal to the dust motes of two continents are obstructed by two births. Bodhisattvas equal to the dust motes of one continent will attain unsurpassed perfect enlightenment within one lifetime. Bodhisattvas, a number equal to the atoms of atoms of eight three-thousand great thousand world systems, having heard this teaching, generate the mind for unsurpassed, perfect, and complete enlightenment. At that time, from the sky above, a rain of clouds of offerings, such as divine flowers, incense, musical instruments, and umbrellas, fell. Sounds of offerings and praise also arose to the Buddha, the Bhagavan, and that assembly, and to hundreds of thousands of billions of Buddha-fields. The Bhagavan said: Maitreya, when this teaching on the measure of the Tathagata's lifespan is taught, it is excellent if any sentient being generates even a single thought of faith or pure faith.
Chinese
那些儿子或女儿会产生多少功德，好好听着，记在心里。现在我将详细讲述他们会产生多少功德。简而言之，想要获得无上圆满菩提的人，在八百千万亿劫中修持布施乃至禅定的五度波罗蜜多，但缺乏智慧波罗蜜多的善根，与仅仅对如来所说示现寿命长短的这个法门生起一次信心的功德相比，连百分之一都不及，甚至无法用比喻和原因来衡量。对这个法门有信心的人，不可能从无上圆满菩提中退转。听闻、进入和领悟这个法门，会产生无法估量的功德，最终转化为佛陀的智慧。更不用说听闻、宣说、书写、请人书写这个法门，以及用鲜花等供养经卷，或请人供养，这会产生更多的成佛功德。听闻这个法门后，以增上意乐生起信心时，增上意乐的征象如下：会看到佛陀世尊在鹫峰山上，于声闻、缘觉、菩萨的中央说法；还会看到此佛土由毗琉璃构成，楼阁亭台装饰华丽，菩萨们安住其中。佛陀涅槃后，听闻此法门而不舍弃，并且随喜的人，也被称为以增上意乐生起信心的善男子。更不用说那些受持和读诵的人，他们是如来所肩负的人。肩负如来的人，不需要建造佛塔，不需要建造寺庙，不需要供养生病的比丘僧团医药和资具。为什么呢？弥勒菩萨，善男子或善女子已经对我的舍利做了舍利供养，如同用七宝建造的佛塔直达梵天。
English
Listen carefully and keep in mind how much merit those sons or daughters will generate. Now I will explain in detail how much merit they will generate. In short, those who wish to attain unsurpassed perfect enlightenment, practice the five perfections from generosity to meditation for eight hundred trillion billions of kalpas, but lack the root of virtue of the perfection of wisdom, compared to the merit of generating just one instance of faith in this Dharma discourse that reveals the extent of the Tathagata's life, it is not even close to one percent, and cannot even be measured by analogy or reason. A person who has faith in this Dharma discourse will never regress from unsurpassed perfect enlightenment. Hearing, entering, and comprehending this Dharma discourse will generate immeasurable merit that will eventually transform into the wisdom of the Buddha. What more to say about listening to, proclaiming, writing, commissioning the writing of this Dharma discourse, and offering flowers and other offerings to the scriptures, or commissioning others to make offerings, this will generate even more merit for becoming a Buddha. When one hears this Dharma discourse and generates faith with heightened intention, the signs of that heightened intention are as follows: one will see the Buddha, the Bhagavan, teaching the Dharma on Vulture Peak Mountain in the midst of Shravakas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Bodhisattvas; and one will also see this Buddha-field made of lapis lazuli, with tiered buildings adorned with ornaments, where Bodhisattvas reside. Even those who, after the Buddha's Nirvana, hear this Dharma discourse and do not abandon it, and rejoice, are also said to be sons of good family who generate faith with heightened intention. What more to say about those who hold and recite it, they are the ones who bear the Tathagata on their shoulders. A person who bears the Tathagata on their shoulders does not need to build stupas, does not need to build monasteries, does not need to offer medicine and supplies to the sick Sangha of monks. Why is that? Maitreya, that son or daughter has already made offerings to my relics, like a stupa made of seven precious jewels reaching the Brahma realm.
Chinese
在这样的环境中，以天幡、伞盖、铃铛等装饰，受到天人香、花等一切供养的恭敬。我涅槃后，受持、读诵、书写、广说此法门者，为了我，就等于建造了广阔高大的红色旃檀寺庙，拥有三十二个八层楼的殿堂，僧众安住的、以鲜花庄严的园林，具备散步的树林，具备床榻，充满饮食、食物饮料和治病良药，以一切安乐的用具善加庄严和建造，像这样众多且不可估量，一百、一千、一亿、一万万、一万万个百倍、一万万个千倍、一万万个百千倍、一万万个万万百千倍，都供养给我面前的声闻僧团，而我也理应享用它们。因此，善男子或善女子无需再供养佛塔和僧团了，就这样宣说。玛帕玛，受持此法门，更不用说修持布施等直至智慧，善男子或善女子对这个法门生起极大信心的福德，就像虚空界在上下十方都是无边无际一样，也是无量的，他们就等于供养了佛塔，同样也等于称赞了如来的声闻和菩萨们，修持了忍辱和戒律等一切善法，调柔且没有嫉妒，没有害人之心等，并且具有忆念、能力和精进，寻求佛法，也是禅定者，致力于内在的如实安住，精通提问和善于辨别，也能回答万万个问题。因此，应当了知，受持此法门者安乐地趋入菩提心要，前往菩提树下。他们在站立、坐着或行走的地方，就为了如来建造佛塔。天神等世间众生也认为这是如来
English
In such an environment, adorned with divine banners, parasols, bells, and the like, and revered with all offerings of incense, flowers, and the like from gods and humans. After my Nirvana, those who uphold, read, write, and extensively explain this Dharma discourse, for my sake, it is equivalent to building a vast and tall red sandalwood temple, possessing thirty-two eight-storied mansions, gardens adorned with flowers where the Sangha resides, possessing walking forests, equipped with bedding, filled with food, drink, and medicinal remedies for the sick, well-adorned and constructed with all implements of comfort, so many and immeasurable such as these: a hundred, a thousand, a million, a hundred million, a hundred million times a hundred, a hundred million times a thousand, a hundred million times a hundred thousand, a hundred million times a trillion hundred thousand, all offered to the Shravaka Sangha before me, and I should rightfully enjoy them all. Therefore, sons or daughters of good families need not make offerings to stupas and the Sangha, thus it is said. Mapama, holding this Dharma discourse, let alone practicing generosity and so forth up to wisdom, the merit of sons or daughters of good families who have great faith in this Dharma discourse is immeasurable, just as the realm of space is boundless in the upper, lower, and ten directions, they are also immeasurable, they are equivalent to honoring stupas, and likewise equivalent to praising the Shravakas and Bodhisattvas of the Tathagata, practicing all virtuous Dharmas such as patience and discipline, being gentle and without jealousy, without harmful intentions, and possessing mindfulness, power, and diligence, seeking the Buddha's Dharma, and also being meditators, diligently engaging in true abiding within, being skilled in questioning and adept at discernment, and also able to answer a trillion questions. Therefore, it should be understood that those who uphold this Dharma discourse will easily enter the essence of Bodhi and go to the Bodhi tree. In the place where they stand, sit, or walk, they build stupas for the sake of the Tathagata. The world with gods also considers this to be the Tathagata.
Chinese
应当称之为……的佛塔。世尊如是说。菩萨慈氏问佛说：世尊，听闻此《白莲花经》法门后随喜者，将生出多少福德？佛告慈氏：慈氏，如来灭度后，若有人听闻此法门，听闻后随喜，然后离去，告诉父母等其他人，他们听闻后也随喜，他们也如此告诉其他人，如此辗转相传，直至第五十人。若说这第五十人的福德，假设有无量百千俱胝的世界，其中所有被六道和四生所摄的，有色和无色的一切众生界，若有人想要行布施，他给予所有这些众生想要的嬉戏和喜乐受用，给予他们所有美好的、美丽的、令人愉悦的事物，为了让他们随心所欲地享受快乐，给予每个众生充满整个赡部洲的财物，包括海螺、黄金、白银、珍宝、珍珠、琉璃，海螺，珊瑚，玛瑙，马车，牛车，象车，楼房，房屋等等。以这种方式，持续布施八十年。然后，这位施主心想：我让所有这些众生嬉戏、快乐，并让他们安乐地生活。但这些众生已经八十岁了，衰老、头发变白、满脸皱纹，临近死亡。我应该让他们进入如来所说的法和律中，并引导他们。于是，他为他们宣说佛法，在短暂的时间内，他们从预流果到阿罗汉果都证得了。这位施主因此积累了大量的福德。然而，即使是这样，这位施主的福德，也比不上那从一个人传到另一个人，成为第五十个人的那个人，听闻此法门中的一句偈颂或一个词语，并随喜所获得的福德的百分之一。
English
It should be called a stupa of..." Thus spoke the Blessed One. The Bodhisattva Maitreya asked the Buddha, "Blessed One, how much merit will be generated by rejoicing after hearing this discourse on the Dharma of the White Lotus?" The Buddha told Maitreya, "Maitreya, after the Tathagata has passed into complete nirvana, if someone listens to this discourse on the Dharma, and after listening, rejoices, and then leaves and tells their parents and other people, and they hear it and also rejoice, and they also tell others in the same way, and it is passed on from one to another until it reaches the fiftieth person, if the merit of that fiftieth person who hears it is explained, suppose there are countless hundreds of thousands of kotis of world realms, and all the sentient beings within them who are included in the six realms and the four modes of birth, all the sentient beings belonging to the realms of form and formlessness, if someone desires to perform meritorious deeds, he gives all those sentient beings the desired play and joyful enjoyment, giving them all beautiful, lovely, and pleasing things, and in order for them to enjoy happiness as they wish, he gives each sentient being enough wealth to fill the entire Jambudvipa, including conches, gold, silver, jewels, pearls, and lapis lazuli, conch shells, coral, agate, horse-drawn chariots, ox-drawn chariots, elephant-drawn chariots, multi-storied buildings, and houses. In this way, he gives great offerings for a full eighty years. Then, that benefactor thinks, 'I have made all these sentient beings play and be happy, and I have nourished them in comfort. But these sentient beings are eighty years old, aged, with white hair and full of wrinkles, and are near the time of death. I should place them in the Dharma and discipline spoken by the Tathagata and guide them.' So, he teaches them the Dharma, and in a short moment, they attain from stream-entry to arhatship. That benefactor thus accumulates a great deal of merit. However, even so, that benefactor's merit does not amount to even one percent of the merit of the person who, having become the fiftieth person through being passed on from one to another, hears one verse or one word from this discourse on the Dharma and rejoices.