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CHAPTER VI
The Thus Come One's Praises
At that time the World-Honored One emitted a great bright light from
his entire body, totally illuminating Buddhalands as many as grains of
sand in billions of Ganges Rivers. His strong voice reached to all the
Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas in those Buddhalands, as well as to the
gods, dragons, ghosts and spirits, humans, non-humans and others,
saying, “Listen today, as I praise Earth Store Bodhisattva Mahasattva,
who displays an inconceivable awesome spiritual strength and
compassionate power throughout the ten directions as he rescues
and protects beings when things happen to them as they suffer for
offenses they have committed. After I pass into tranquility, all of you
Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas and all of you gods, dragons, ghosts,
spirits, and others should use vast numbers of expedient devices to
protect this sutra and to cause all beings to testify to the bliss of
nirvana."
After that was said a Bodhisattva named Universally Expansive arose
in the assembly, placed his palms together respectfully, and said to
the Buddha, “We are now about to witness the World Honored One
praise Earth Store Bodhisattva’s inconceivably great awesome
spiritual virtue. We hope the World Honored One will also aid beings
in the future Dharma-Ending Age by telling us about how Earth Store
Bodhisattva benefits people and gods and about the working out of