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English version: ‘Excellent, it can bring great benefits to all sentient beings.’ As soon as these words were spoken, the light emitted revolved and returned to the Buddha's body. At that time, the World Honored One again told Ananda (one of the ten principal disciples of the Buddha): ‘You must uphold the Buddha's words and not forget them. In the future, in the Dharma-ending age, propagate and circulate this Dharma, widely bringing benefit and happiness to all sentient beings.’ When Sakyamuni Buddha (the founder of Buddhism) spoke this unprecedented true Dharma, ninety-six thousand devas (gods) were purified of defilements and attained the pure Dharma eye; seven million eight hundred thousand people aroused the Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi-citta (the mind of unsurpassed, complete, and perfect enlightenment); thirty-two thousand Bodhisattvas (beings who aspire to Buddhahood) attained the Anutpattika-dharma-kshanti (acceptance of the non-arising of all dharmas); eight hundred thousand Bhikkhus (ordained male monastics) were no longer attached to all dharmas, exhausted their outflows, and their minds were liberated. At that moment, the great trichiliocosm shook in six ways, and the Kama-dhatu (the realm of desire in Buddhist cosmology) devas played hundreds of thousands of heavenly musical instruments in the empty sky, making offerings to the World Honored One and the Dharma he spoke. When Sakyamuni Buddha spoke this true Dharma, all the devas, demons, and non-Buddhist practitioners were frightened and terrified upon hearing it, and they all turned to the Buddha—just as when the Buddha first turned the Dharma wheel (Dharmacakra-pravartana, the first sermon of the Buddha) and subdued the devas and demons, today's situation is no different. ‘This Dharma is the seal of all Buddhas, the seal of the Great Dharma, the seal of liberation. All wise people should learn and practice in this way.’ After the Buddha finished speaking this sutra, King Magadha (an ancient Indian kingdom) and his retinue, the great Bodhisattvas such as Manjushri (the Bodhisattva of wisdom), the great Sravakas (disciples who attain enlightenment by hearing the Dharma) such as Mahakasyapa (one of the ten principal disciples of the Buddha), Ananda (one of the ten principal disciples of the Buddha), Sariputra (one of the ten principal disciples of the Buddha), Maudgalyayana (one of the ten principal disciples of the Buddha), and all the great assemblies, including devas, humans, Asuras (a type of deity or demon), Gandharvas (a type of celestial musician), and others in the world, upon hearing what the Buddha said, were all greatly delighted, believed, accepted, and practiced it. The Sutra of the Unprecedented True Dharma Spoken by the Buddha, Volume Six --------------------------------------------------------------------------------