The Hundred Deeds

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The Hundred Deeds (Skt. Karmaśataka; Tib. ལས་བརྒྱ་ཐམ་པ།, Wyl. las brgya tham pa) or The Hundred Karmas is a sutra comprising more than 120 individual texts. This sutra is perhaps the best known of the many works in the Kangyur on the theme of karmic ripening of actions across multiple lifetimes.

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ལུས་ཅན་དག་གི་ལས་རྣམས་ནི། །

བསྐལ་པ་བརྒྱར་ཡང་ཆུད་མི་ཟ། །
ཚོགས་ཤིང་དུས་ལས་བབས་པ་ན། །

འབྲས་བུ་ཉིད་དུ་སྨིན་པར་འགྱུར། །

When the time arrives—and even if
A hundred eons pass—
Fruit is born of every act
That sentient beings amass.[1]

Buddha Shakyamuni, The Hundred Deeds, 1.72 (first occurrence)
  1. Quoted in The Words of My Perfect Teacher, page 119.