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Sutra of Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva
offering to the Buddhas and Sangha, the deceased will receive one
seventh of the merit. Therefore, Elder, by performing vegetarian
offerings on behalf of deceased fathers, mothers, and other relatives
while making earnest supplication on their behalves, beings of
Jambudvipa benefit both the living and the dead.”
After that was said, hundreds of thousands of millions of nayutas of
ghosts and spirits of Jambudvipa who were in the palace of the
Trayastrimsha Heaven, made the unlimited resolve to attain Bodhi.
The elder Great Eloquence made obeisance and withdrew.
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