The book Grandmaster JinBodhi Teaches “The Earth Store Bodhisattva's Vow Sutra” contains the original sutra and Grandmaster JinBodhi's explanation and teachings on the sutra. The purpose of the book is to help the public understand this sutra's auspicious meaning and thus obtain immeasurable merits and benefits.
According to The Earth Store Bodhisattva's Vow Sutra, those who can hear this sutra will immediately experience wonderful peace and joy in this lifetime. For their millions of reincarnations in the future, they will be born into noble and wealthy families and be dignified in appearance.
If a person respectfully reads the sutra in front of statues of Buddha and bodhisattvas, the reader and their family will, as a result, live their days with ample food and clothing and avoid big disasters and diseases. They will be free of the evil realms for the next hundreds or even thousands of years. If the reader’s deceased relatives are already in the evil realm, the merit from reading the sutra can free these relatives, and the reader will no longer be disturbed by related nightmares.
Additionally, if one can respectfully offer to the Earth Store Bodhisattva and the sutra at home and frequently study and recite the sutra, one will be protected by the deities of the Earth and Heavens from all disasters, achieve freedom from the sea of suffering and attain buddhahood.
The book is available in paper and electronic versions. If you offer a sponsorship of 100 USD, you will receive a paperback copy of the sutra; if you offer a sponsorship of 3,600 USD, you will receive a hardcover copy of the sutra. May all who receive the book obtain the Buddha and bodhisattvas’ eternal blessings and protection; a peaceful house, health, longevity, wealth, prosperity, auspiciousness, and boundless wisdom; and, may they ultimately attain enlightenment.
Reference to Original Sutra:
1. For sentient beings who hear this bodhisattva's name, see this bodhisattva's image, or hear but three words, five words, a verse, or a sentence of this sutra, they will have exquisite peace and happiness in the present lifetime. In their myriad future lives, they will always have a dignified appearance and be reborn into noble and wealthy families.
2. For those who are able to read this sutra aloud once in front of the images of buddhas, bodhisattvas, sages, and holy ones on the Ten Observance Days, there will not be disaster or calamity within a hundred yojanas to the north, south, east, or west of their home. Their family members, both young and old, will be liberated from the evil realms now and throughout hundreds of thousands of years in the future. If a person can read this sutra once on each of the Ten Observance Days, their family members will have an abundance of food and clothing in this lifetime and be protected from sudden severe illnesses.
3. Be Universally expansive: Use your supernormal power to help living family members to read this sutra aloud with a resolute mind before the images of buddhas and bodhisattvas, or request that others read it aloud for them, three or seven times. When the sutra has been read aloud a number of times, the departed relatives in the evil realms will gain liberation and will never appear in the dreams of the living family members again.
4. The Solid Earth Deity said to Buddha, "World-Honored One, in the future there may be kind men and kind women who have this bodhisattva’s image and sutra in their residences. Furthermore, if these people recite the sutra and make offerings to Bodhisattva, I will always use my supernormal power to protect these people day and night, so that flood, fire, robbery, theft, major calamities, minor misfortunes — all harmful events will be eliminated.”
Why will these people receive support and protection from holy and virtuous beings? It is because they respectfully gazed at and paid reverence to Earth Store's image and read the sutra of his vow. Naturally, they will leave the sea of suffering and ultimately attain the joy of nirvana. As a result of their sincere actions, they receive great support and protection.