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English version: In the Ekottara Agama and the Abhidhamma Pitaka, there are numerous categories such as the 'Collection of Six Questions,' 'Corresponding Arising,' and so forth. Furthermore, there are the 'Jataka Garland Praise' and the 'Pratyekabuddha Garland Praise.' Within these collections of the true Dharma, whether spoken by the Buddha, Bodhisattvas, Sravakas, various Immortals, Devas, or wise individuals, if one can generate benefit, even to the extent of understanding a four-line verse, whether reciting it oneself or teaching others to recite it, whether reading it oneself or teaching others to read it, whether upholding it oneself or teaching others to uphold it, whether explaining it oneself or teaching others to explain it, or if one respectfully makes offerings to Dharma teachers or to the scriptures themselves, such as offering various incense, flowers, banners, canopies, music, and lamps, or adorning the scriptures with various colorful bags, cloths, threads, and ribbons. Due to the power of these virtuous roots, when Maitreya Tathagata attains complete enlightenment, one will be born into a favorable human body. In the second assembly of that Buddha, with pure faith, one will renounce household life, leave home to practice, shave one's head and beard, don the Dharma robes, join the holy assembly, and, according to the power of one's past vows, attain Nirvana. This is called the second kind of karmic reward obtained by those who plant virtuous roots for the sake of the Dharma. If various kings and subjects, all donors, within the true Dharma of Sakyamuni Buddha, can plant virtuous roots themselves for the sake of the Sangha, or teach others to plant them, such as inviting Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis in order or according to circumstances, offering alms on the first, eighth, or fifteenth day of the month, or going to temples to make offerings to the Buddha or to the Sangha, or serving them, or making offerings to those who cultivate meditation, or making offerings to those who preach the Dharma, or seeing someone who wishes to learn and propagate the true Dharma, listening to teachings from a teacher without hindering them, providing them with security, and not causing them to retreat, or establishing a five-year unobstructed giving assembly, or giving to the Sangha of the four directions, or donating temples and monasteries, as well as sitting and sleeping mats, or donating bells and chimes, or donating gardens and forests. Such acts of offering to the Sangha, due to the power of these virtuous roots, when Maitreya Tathagata attains complete enlightenment, one will be born into a favorable human body. In the third assembly of that Buddha, with pure faith, one will renounce household life, leave home to practice, shave one's head and beard, don the Dharma robes, join the holy assembly, and, according to the power of one's past vows, attain Nirvana. This is called the third kind of karmic reward obtained by those who plant virtuous roots for the sake of the Sangha. At that time, the great Arhat Katyayana, after extensively explaining the above matters to the assembly, then... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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神通力于大众前身升虚空。高七多罗树。示现种种不可思议双神变事。令所观众增进胜道。时彼尊者现神变已。即于空中结跏趺坐。舍诸寿行及诸命行。入无余依般涅槃界。先定愿力火起焚身。于虚空中雨身遗骨。时诸大众悲叹希有。竞收遗骨起窣堵波。以诸香花宝幢幡盖伎乐灯明常为供养。此法住记古昔诸师展转相承诵持不忘。为令一切国王大臣长者居士诸施主等。了达因果厌生老病死芭蕉幻焰泡沫之身。修诸胜业于当来世逢事弥勒。解脱烦恼得大涅槃生爱乐故。于佛正法护持建立令久不灭。 大阿罗汉难提蜜多罗所说法住记 现代汉语译本： 以神通力在大众面前升到虚空中，高度达到七多罗树（一种高大的树木）。示现种种不可思议的双神变事，使观看的人们增进殊胜的修行道路。当时那位尊者现完神变后，就在空中结跏趺坐，舍弃所有寿命的行持以及命的行持，进入无余依般涅槃的境界。凭借先前的誓愿力，火从自身燃起焚烧身体，在虚空中降下身体的遗骨。当时的大众悲叹这稀有之事，争相收集遗骨，建造窣堵波（佛塔），用各种香、花、宝幢、幡盖、伎乐、灯明常常供养。这部《法住记》是古代的各位老师辗转相传，诵读受持而不忘失的。为了使一切国王、大臣、长者、居士等施主们，了解因果，厌离生、老、病、死，以及芭蕉、幻焰、泡沫般虚幻的身体，修习各种殊胜的善业，在未来世能够遇到弥勒（未来佛），解脱烦恼，得到大涅槃，生起爱乐之心，为了佛陀的正法能够得到护持和建立，长久不灭。 大阿罗汉难提蜜多罗（Nandimitra）所说的《法住记》
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English version: With supernatural power, he rose into the sky in front of the assembly, reaching a height of seven Tala trees (a type of tall tree). He manifested various inconceivable twin miracles, causing the audience to advance on the path of supreme virtue. Then, that venerable one, having displayed his miraculous powers, sat in the lotus position in the sky, relinquished all activities related to lifespan and life, and entered the realm of Nirvana without remainder. By the power of his prior vows, fire arose and consumed his body, raining down relics in the sky. At that time, the assembly lamented this rare event, vying to collect the relics and build stupas (Buddhist monuments), constantly offering various incense, flowers, jeweled banners, canopies, music, and lamps. This 'Record of the Abiding of the Dharma' has been transmitted from ancient teachers, recited and upheld without forgetting. In order to enable all kings, ministers, elders, lay practitioners, and other benefactors to understand cause and effect, to be weary of birth, old age, sickness, and death, and the illusory nature of the body like plantain trees, phantom flames, and bubbles, to cultivate various supreme virtuous deeds, to encounter Maitreya (the future Buddha) in the future, to be liberated from afflictions, to attain great Nirvana, and to generate love and joy, for the sake of protecting and establishing the Buddha's true Dharma so that it may not perish for a long time. The 'Record of the Abiding of the Dharma' spoken by the great Arhat Nandimitra. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------