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By mixing together the years that have passed, these collections, for those who wish to calculate, the previously mentioned duration of the Doctrine of the Sutra system, and the duration of the Doctrine of the Vajrayana, subtract from the total the amount that has passed, and how much remains, from this it will be easy to know how much of the Doctrine's duration will remain in the future, therefore, wise ones, please calculate with meticulous minds! Having calculated in this way, up to this Iron Bird year (unknown year), if we calculate based on the Sutra system's duration of five thousand years, three five-hundreds of the Fruition period, and one five-hundred each of Wisdom and Samadhi from the Practice period, plus sixty-one from the Discipline period, a total of two thousand five hundred and sixty-one years have passed. From then on, in the future, four hundred and thirty-nine years will remain from the Discipline period, and three five-hundreds of the Scriptural period, the true Doctrine will last one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine years, and one five-hundred of merely holding the signs, in short, adding the real and the nominal, two thousand four hundred and thirty-nine years will remain. If we calculate according to the Doctrine of the Kalachakra, from the four periods of the Early Propagation, the Perfected Age, the Age of Three, the Age of Two, and eighty-three years have passed from the Age of Strife. From now on, in the future, seven hundred and forty-three years will remain from the Age of Strife, and one thousand eight hundred years of the Later Propagation supported by the Chakravartin, in total, two thousand five hundred and forty-three years will remain. From 'The Key to Calculation, Manifestation of Sunlight,' the section on explaining the Doctrine's Calculation, which is the commentary on the third chapter. The content is abbreviated here.