[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Avadāna and jātaka literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana) › [Jñānakasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra) › [འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ་ཤེས་ལྡན་གྱི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo) › [The Sutra of Jnanaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000) › notes.4 # འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱ་རྟགས་པ་བརྗད་པ་ཤས་ལྡན་གྱ་མད notes.4 The Sūtra of Jñānaka notes.4 - **Language:** English ### [notes.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.4) 4. This refers to a stock description of the Buddha's appearance that normally reads in full (with some variations across texts): “He was handsome and inspiring, and his senses were stilled. His mind was serene, his sense faculties were restrained, his mind was temperate, and he had attained the perfection of sublime tranquility. His sense faculties were isolated and withdrawn. He was as well trained as an elephant, and as lucid, limpid, and clear as a lake. His body was adorned with the thirty-two characteristics of a great being, and he was ornamented with the eighty fine marks. He had the body of a thus-gone one, bedecked like the king of sal trees. Like the sun, he emitted a profusion of light rays everywhere. He was like a conflagration raging atop a mountain peak in the middle of a dark night, and brilliant and shining like a golden mountain.” (See Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm, Toh 558, 1.240.) - [Previous: notes.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.3) - [Next: notes.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.5) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.4) · Pramāṇa