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    The document is a sutra where a bodhisattva confesses past wrongdoings and dedicates merits to enlightenment. It begins with the bodhisattva taking refuge in multiple Buddhas and making offerings. The bodhisattva then declares past negative actions and their karmic results. All misdeeds are confessed and purified before the Buddhas. The bodhisattva dedicates all past merits and virtues to enlightenment, as the Buddhas of past and future have done. The sutra concludes with the bodhisattva taking refuge in the Buddhas.

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    The document is a sutra where a bodhisattva confesses past wrongdoings and dedicates merits to enlightenment. It begins with the bodhisattva taking refuge in multiple Buddhas and making offerings. The bodhisattva then declares past negative actions and their karmic results. All misdeeds are confessed and purified before the Buddhas. The bodhisattva dedicates all past merits and virtues to enlightenment, as the Buddhas of past and future have done. The sutra concludes with the bodhisattva taking refuge in the Buddhas.

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    The document is a sutra where a bodhisattva confesses past wrongdoings and dedicates merits to enlightenment. It begins with the bodhisattva taking refuge in multiple Buddhas and making offerings. The bodhisattva then declares past negative actions and their karmic results. All misdeeds are confessed and purified before the Buddhas. The bodhisattva dedicates all past merits and virtues to enlightenment, as the Buddhas of past and future have done. The sutra concludes with the bodhisattva taking refuge in the Buddhas.

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    THE MAHAYANA SUTRA OF THE THREE SUPERIOR HEAPS

    Namo: The Bodhisattva's Confession of Moral Downfalls.

    I, whose name is .……….., at all times go for refuge to the Gurus,


    go for refuge to the Buddhas,
    go for refuge to the Dharma,
    go for refuge to the Sangha.

    1. To the Teacher, Blessed One, Tathagata, Foe Destroyer, Completely Perfect


    Buddha, Glorious Conqueror Sakyamuni I prostrate.

    2. To the Tathagata Complete Subduer with Essence of Vajra I prostrate.

    3. To the Tathagata Jewel of Radiant Light I prostrate.

    4. To the Tathagata Powerful King of the Nagas I prostrate.

    5. To the Tathagata Leader of the Heroes I prostrate.

    6. To the Tathagata Glorious Pleasure I prostrate.

    7. To the Tathagata Jewel Fire I prostrate.

    8. To the Tathagata Jewel Moonlight I prostrate.

    9. To the Tathagata Meaningful to Behold I prostrate.

    10. To the Tathagata Jewel Moon I prostrate.

    11. To the Tathagata Stainless One I prostrate.

    12. To the Tathagata Bestower of Glory I prostrate.

    13. To the Tathagata Pure One I prostrate.

    14. To the Tathagata Transforming with Purity I prostrate.

    15. To the Tathagata Water Deity I prostrate.

    16. To the Tathagata God of Water Deities I prostrate.

    17. To the Tathagata Glorious Excellence I prostrate.

    18. To the Tathagata Glorious Sandalwood I prostrate.


    19. To the Tathagata Endless Splendor I prostrate.

    20. To the Tathagata Glorious Light I prostrate.

    21. To the Tathagata Glorious One without Sorrow I prostrate.

    22. To the Tathagata Son without Craving I prostrate.

    23. To the Tathagata Glorious Flower I prostrate.

    24. To the Tathagata Clearly Knowing through Enjoying Pure Radiance I


    prostrate.

    25. To the Tathagata Clearly Knowing through Enjoying Lotus Radiance I


    prostrate.

    26. To the Tathagata Glorious Wealth I prostrate.

    27. To the Tathagata Glorious Mindfulness I prostrate.

    28. To the Tathagata Glorious Name of Great Renown I prostrate.

    29. To the Tathagata King of the Victory Banner Head of the Powerful Ones I
    prostrate.

    30. To the Tathagata Glorious One Complete Subduer I prostrate.

    31. To the Tathagata Great Victor in Battle I prostrate.

    32. To the Tathagata Glorious One Complete Subduer Passed Beyond I prostrate.

    33. To the Tathagata Glorious Array Illuminating All I prostrate.

    34. To the Tathagata Jewel Lotus Great Subduer I prostrate.

    35. To the Tathagata Foe Destroyer, Completely Perfect Buddha, King of Mount
    Meru, seated Firmly on a Jewel and a Lotus I prostrate.

    O all you Tathagatas and all the others, however many Tathagatas, the Foe
    Destroyers, the Completely Perfect Buddhas, the Blessed Ones there are dwelling
    and abiding in all the worldly realms of the ten directions, all you Buddhas, the
    Blessed Ones, please listen to me.

    In this life and in all my lives since beginningless time, in all my places of rebirth
    whilst wandering in cyclic existence, I have done negative actions, have ordered
    them to be done, and have rejoiced in their being done. I have stolen the property
    of the bases of offering, the property of the Sangha, and the property of the Sangha
    of the ten directions, have ordered it to be stolen, and have rejoiced in it being
    stolen. I have committed the five unbounded heinous actions, have ordered them
    to be committed, and have rejoiced in their being committed. I have completely
    engaged in the paths of the ten non-virtuous actions, have ordered others to engage
    in them, and have rejoiced in their engaging in them.

    Being obstructed by such karmic obstructions; I shall become a hell being; or I


    shall be born as an animal; or I shall go to the land of the hungry ghosts; or I shall
    be born as a barbarian in an irreligious country; or I shall be born as a long-life
    god; or I shall come to have incomplete senses; or I shall come to hold wrong
    views; or I shall have no opportunity to please a Buddha.

    All such karmic obstructions I declare in the presence of the Buddhas, the Blessed
    Ones, who have become exalted wisdom, who have become 'eyes', who have
    become witnesses, who have become valid, who see with their wisdom. I confess
    without concealing or hiding anything, and from now on I shall avoid and refrain
    from such actions.

    All you Buddhas, the Blessed Ones, please listen to me. In this life and in all my
    previous lives since beginningless time, in all my places of rebirth whilst
    wandering in cyclic existence, whatever root of virtue there is in my giving to
    others, even in my giving a morsel of food to one born as an animal; whatever root
    of virtue there is in my maintaining moral discipline; whatever root of virtue there
    is in my actions conducive to great liberation; whatever root of virtue there is in
    my acting to fully ripen sentient beings; whatever root of virtue there is in my
    generating a supreme mind of enlightenment; and whatever root of virtue there is
    in my unsurpassed exalted wisdom; all of these assembled, gathered, and
    collected together, by fully dedicating them to the unsurpassed, to that of which
    there is no higher, to that which is even higher than the high, and to that which
    surpasses the unsurpassed, I fully dedicate to the unsurpassed, perfect, complete
    enlightenment.

    Just as the Buddhas, the Blessed Ones of the past, have dedicated fully, just as the
    Buddhas, the Blessed Ones who are yet to come, will dedicate fully, and just as the
    Buddhas, the Blessed Ones who are living now, dedicate fully, so too do I dedicate
    fully.

    I confess individually all negative actions. I rejoice in all merit. I beseech and
    request all the Buddhas. May I attain the holy, supreme, unsurpassed, exalted
    wisdom.

    Whoever are the Conquerors, the supreme beings living now, those of the past, and
    likewise those who are yet to come, with a boundless ocean of praise for all your
    good qualities, and with my palms pressed together I go close to you for refuge.
    This concludes the Mahayana Sutra entitled the Sutra of the Three Superior Heaps.

    1. Invocation: O all you Tathagatas...


    2. Declaration: In this life and in all my lives since beginningless time,..
    3. Results: Being obstructed by such karmic obstructions...
    4. Purification: All such karmic obstructions I declare in the presence...
    5. Dedication: All you Buddhas, the Blessed Ones, please listen to me...
    6. Dedication: Just as the Buddhas, the Blessed Ones of the past have dedicated
    fully...
    7. 7 limbs: I confess individually all negative actions. I rejoice ...
    8. Refuge: Whoever are the Conquerors, the supreme beings living now...
    9. Conclusion: This concludes the Mahayana Sutra

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