"Subhuti, if someone took heaps of jewels as big as the polar mountains in a billion worlds and gave them away in charity, the blessings would not compare to a hundredth part, a hundredth trillionth part, or indeed any calculable or imaginable part of the blessings of accepting, holding, reading, reciting, and explaining to others even so much as a four-line verse of this sutra on the perfection of wisdom." [Thomas Cleary]
[This section omitted from Pritikin]
"Moreover, Subhuti, if a man or woman brought together as many piles of the seven jewels as all the Mount Sumerus in the billion worlds of the universe and gave them as a gift to the tathagatas, the arhans, the fully-enlightened ones, and a noble son or daughter grasped but a single four-line gatha of this dharma teaching of the perfection of wisdom and made it known to others, Subhuti, their body of merit would be greater by more than a hundred-fold, indeed, by an amount beyond comparison."
[Red Pine]
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