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...I could still not exhaust those merits. Briefly stated, all the dharmas possessed by the Thus Come One, all the Thus Come One's supernatural powers of self-mastery, the treasure house of all the Thus Come One's secrets, all the Thus Come One's profound affairs are entirely proclaimed, demonstrated, revealed, and preached in this scripture. For this reason, after the extinction of the Thus Come One, you all must single-mindedly receive and keep, read and recite, interpret and copy, and, as you preach, so practice it. In any land, if there is anyone who accepts and keeps, reads and recites, interprets and copies, and, as he preaches, so practices it, whether in a place where scriptural rolls are lodged, or in a garden, or in a grove, or at the foot of a tree, or in a samgha-cell, or in the home of a white-clad layman, or in a palace, or on mountains, or in valleys, or in open fields, there, in every case, is to be erected a stupa, to which offerings are to be made. What is the reason? Be it known that that place is a Platform of the Path (bodhimaņdo veditavyah) ; that the Buddhas there have achieved anuttara-samyaksambodhi; that the Buddhas there have turned the Dharma-wheel; that the Buddhas there have achieved parinirvana."
-- Chapter Twenty-One - The Supernatural Powers of the Thus Come One p.288 (Hurvitz, from the Sanskrit)

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