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PU HSIEN P'USA the purity of the six senses). Under the legs of the elephant lotus flowers grow... the whiteness of the elephant is of the most bril- liant of all shades of white which is so pure that even crystal and the Himalaya Mountains cannot compare with it!" e Lotus Sutra has done much to at ract great numbers of female devotees for Pu Hsien P'usa as they are promised that they too could attain Buddhahood which is described in detail in the 10th Chapter of the Sutra. In Chapter 28 Pu Hsien P'usa also made this promise to the Buddha: "In the lat er five hundred years of the corrupt and evil age, whoever receives and keeps this sutra I will guard and protect, eliminate the anxiety of feeling away, and give ease of mind.... Wherever such a one walks or stands, reading and reciting this sutra, I will at once mount the six-tusked white elephant king and with a host of great bodhisat vas go to that place and, show- ing myself, will serve and protect (him) comforting his mind, also thereby serving the Law-Flower Sutra.... Moreover I will give them dharanis, and obtaining these dharanis, no human or non-human beings can injure them, nor any woman beguile them." Still further on, one hears the Buddha extol ing Pu Hsien with this promise: "...I, by my supernatural power, will guard and protect those who are able to receive and keep the name of the Bodhisat va Universal Virtue." ¡ûBACK¡û |INDEX| ¡úNEXT¡ú |