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In the Words of the Sanghāta:
“Blessed One, 84,000 light rays have
come forth from
your face, and this galaxy of a billion world systems and everything in
it is suffused with these light rays. All thirty-two great hells are
suffused with them, too. They are also illuminating thirty-two deva
realms. These light rays are of a great variety of colors, such as
green, yellow, red, white, crimson, crystal and silver. These light
rays, after emerging from the face of the Blessed One, did everything
to bring about the happiness of the sentient beings of the galaxy of a
billion world systems, and after that they returned, circumambulated
the Blessed One seven times and disappeared into the Blessed
One’s crown.?
- Ārya Sanghāta Sūtra
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Sutra
Lama Zopa Rinpoche Receives a Handwritten Copy
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was
recently given a copy of the sutra that somebody had written by hand
and sent him. Ven. Holly Ansett, who serves
as part of Rinpoche's support, sent in this description of Rinpoche's
reaction:
Rinpoche received the Sanghata
Sutra and sat there for some time saying, 'Fantastic...
Incredible... Fantastic.'
Then Rinpoche commented that he felt he has offered a little service to
the world by promoting and spreading the Sanghata Sutra,
because anyone who reads it or writes it out creates unimaginable merit.
Pictured: Lama
Zopa Rinpoche himself writing the Sanghata Sutra by hand in pure gold,
a project he began within weeks of first hearing of the sutra. To read
of Rinpoche's first encounter with the sutra,
click here.