Toh 149
The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Question of Maitreya”
འཕགས་པ་བྱམས་པས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Āryamaitreyaparipṛcchānāmamahāyānasūtra
《彌勒所問經 （3）》（大正藏：《彌勒菩薩所問本願經》）
’phags pa byams pas zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
Translator: Translated by the Kīrtimukha Translation Groupunder the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
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Summary
The bodhisattva Maitreya approaches the Buddha on Vulture Peak Mountain and asks him to explain the karmic results of teaching the Dharma. The Buddha responds by comparing the merit gained by a person who makes an unfathomably enormous material offering to the buddhas, to the merit gained by another person who teaches a single verse of Dharma, declaring that the merit of the latter is far superior.