Toh 320
The Noble Dharma Discourse “Describing the Benefits of Producing Representations of the Thus-Gone One”
འཕགས་པ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་གཟུགས་བརྙན་བཞག་པའི་ཕན་ཡོན་ཡང་དག་པར་བརྗོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས།
Āryatathāgatapratibimbapratiṣṭhānuśaṃsasaṃvarṇananāmadharmaparyāya
《留如來影像利益正說法門經》
’phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa’i gzugs brnyan bzhag pa’i phan yon yang dag par brjod pa zhes bya ba’i chos kyi rnam grangs
Translator: Translated by the Alexander Csoma de Kőrös Translation Groupunder the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
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The KangyurDiscoursesGeneral Sūtra Section
Summary
In this sūtra, the Buddha Śākyamuni tells a group of monks how they should respond when asked about the karmic benefits accrued by patrons who create representations of the Buddha. He explains five kinds of benefits that such virtuous deeds bring.