དེ་ནས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་བཀThen the Bhagavān gave teaching thus: “It is excellent that you request a Dharma such as this. Listen well; and I shall explain it. After I pass into Nirvāṇa, the reflection of the Transcendent Dharma will remain for two thousand years.”
།བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཟླ་བའི་ས
The Bodhisattva Candragarbha spoke thus: “Bhagavān, how will the Transcendent Dharma, in the end, come to wane? Through which causes will it degenerate? By whose actions will it come to naught?”
བཀའ་སྩལ་པ། ང་མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པའི་འོག་ཏུ་
He gave teaching thus: “After I pass into Nirvāṇa, for five hundred years(1), there will be many sentient beings that practice my teaching who will become completely liberated. Then, for [the next] five hundred years(2), there will be many who practice meditative absorption (samādhi). The kings, officials, and ordinary sentient beings too who have faith and practice the Transcendent Dharma will also, in return, become fewer.”
།དེ་ནས་ལོ་ལྔ་བརྒྱའི་བར་དུ་
Then, for [the next] five hundred years(3), there will arise many masters who will teach the Transcendent Dharma, guide sentient beings, and bring them to liberation. Śrāvaka Arhats will become fewer. Kings, officials and ordinary beings too will do no more than what amounts to mere study [or simply listening to the teachings], and will not engage in experiential training, practice, or diligence; hence, their faith will decrease. They will not take joy in the protectors of the Transcendent Dharma, either; and thereby, the sentient beings who do not have faith in the Transcendent Dharma will give rise to greater power and strength than before. The kings of the world will also order their armies against each other, and do battle. The sides of the Māras will flourish, as well.”
1. Although the dates of the Buddha's death are highly disputed, due to various accounts and chronologies, the current consensus places his death and Parinirvāṇa ('final nirvāṇa') sometime between circa 410 BC and 368 BC, within a roughly 42-year time frame. Many more traditional accounts place it much earlier, but this seems unlikely, due to poor historical records of the time, and much evidence to the contrary. Thus the first 500-year period would be approximately 410 BC to 90 AD at the earliest, and 368 BC to 132 AD at the latest.
2. The second 500-year period would be approximately 90 AD to 590 AD at the earliest, and 132 AD to 632 AD at the latest.
3. The third 500-year period would be approximately 590 AD to 1090 AD at the earliest, and 632 AD to 1132 AD at the latest.
-- །།འཕགས་པ་ཟླ་བའི་སྙིང་པོས་ཞ
སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བསྟན་པ་གནས་པ་
The Prophecy on How the Buddha's Teachings Will Remain and Decline:
From The Sūtra Requested by the Noble Candragarbha
('phags pa zla ba'i snying pos zhus pa'i mdo las/ sangs rgyas kyi bstan pa gnas pa dang/ 'jig pa'i tshul lung bstan pa)
Translated from the Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos
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