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If their blessings in the heavens come to an end and they are born in the human realm, they will become national leaders who suffer no loss of benefits.
普广，若有善男子、善女人，或彩画行像，或土石胶漆，金银铜铁、作此菩萨，一瞻一礼者，是人百返生於三十三天，永不堕於恶道。假如天福尽故，下生人间，犹为国王，不失大利。
"There may be women who dislike having female bodies. Suppose they whole-heartedly make offerings to images of Earth Store Bodhisattva that are paintings or are made using clay, stone, lacquer, copper, iron, or other materials.
If they continually make such offerings day after day without fail, using flowers, incense, food, drink, clothing, colored silks, banners, money, jewels, and other items as offerings, when those good women finish their current female retributions, then throughout hundreds of thousands of eons they will never again be born in worlds where there are women, much less be one, unless it be through the strength of their compassionate vows to liberate beings.
Based on the strength of their offerings to Earth Store Bodhisattva and the power of their meritorious virtues, they will not be born into female bodies throughout hundreds of thousands of eons.
复次普广：『若有女人，厌是丑陋，多疾病者，但於地藏像前，志心瞻礼，食顷之间。是人千万劫中所受生身，相貌圆满。是丑陋女人，如不厌女身，即百千万亿生中，常为女王，乃及王妃，宰辅大姓，大长者女，端正受生，诸相圆满。由志心故，瞻礼地藏菩萨，获福如是。』
"Moreover, Universally Expansive, women who are ugly or prone to sickness will dislike those problems. If they gaze at and bow to images of Earth Store Bodhisattva with sincere resolve for even just a few minutes, then throughout millions of eons, they will always be born with full and perfect features.
If those woman who are ugly do not dislike having female bodies, then throughout billions of lives they will always be born as women of royal lineage, or will marry into royalty, or will become daughters of prime ministers, prominent families, or great Elders.
They will be of upright birth and full-featured. They will receive such blessings from having sincerely beheld and worshipped Earth Store Bodhisattva.
复次普广：『若有女人，厌是丑陋，多疾病者，但於地藏像前，志心瞻礼，食顷之间。是人千万劫中所受生身，相貌圆满。是丑陋女人，如不厌女身，即百千万亿生中，常为女王，乃及王妃，宰辅大姓，大长者女，端正受生，诸相圆满。由志心故，瞻礼地藏菩萨，获福如是。』
"Moreover, Universally Expansive, there may be good men or good women who are able to play music, sing, or chant praises, and make offerings of incense and flowers before images of the Bodhisattva or who are able to exhort one or more others to do likewise.
Now and in the future, such people will be surrounded day and night by hundreds of thousands of ghosts and spirits who will even prevent bad news from reaching their ears, much less allow them to be personally involved in any accidents.
复次普广：『若有善男子、善女人，能对菩萨像前，作诸伎乐，乃至劝於一人多人。如是等辈，现在世中及未来世，常得百千鬼神日夜卫护，不令恶事辄闻其耳，何况亲受诸横。』
"Moreover, Universally Expansive, in the future, evil people, evil spirits, or evil ghosts may see good men or good women taking refuge with, respectfully making offerings to, praising, beholding, and bowing to images of Earth Store Bodhisattva.
Those beings may make the mistake of ridiculing such acts of worship, saying that they are of no merit. They may sneer at those good people, condemn them behind their backs, or get a group or even one other person to have even as little as one thought of condemnation.
Such beings will fall into the Avichi Hell and the extreme misery they will undergo as retribution for their slander will not end even after the thousand Buddhas of the Worthy Eon have passed into tranquility.
Only after that eon will they be reborn among the hungry ghosts, where they will pass a thousand more eons before being reborn as animals. Only after another thousand eons will they obtain human bodies, but they will be poor and lowly with incomplete faculties, and their evil karma will cause…
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