འཕགས་པ་མ་ཏག་བརྩགས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 2

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together with a great community of monks, five hundred monks, and also together with a great assembly of bodhisattvas gathered from various other world realms, numbering a full thousand bodhisattvas, all of whom had obtained dhāraṇī, obtained absorption (samādhi), were obstructed by only one birth, were thoroughly grounded in the ten grounds, were directly consecrated with the consecration of the regent, were clad in the great armor, and were entirely without doubt regarding all the qualities of a Buddha. At that time, the bodhisattva mahāsattva named Siṃhavikrīḍita sat assembled in that very retinue. Then, the bodhisattva mahāsattva Siṃhavikrīḍita arose from his seat, arranged his upper robe over one shoulder, placed his right knee on the ground, bowed with his palms joined toward the Blessed One, and addressed the Blessed One: "Blessed One, if any son of noble family or daughter of noble family makes offerings to the Tathāgata, how much merit will they produce?" When he had spoken thus, the Blessed One addressed the bodhisattva mahāsattva Siṃhavikrīḍita: "Siṃhavikrīḍita, do not say: 'Blessed One, if any son of noble family or daughter of noble family makes offerings to the Tathāgata, how much merit will they produce?' Why is that? The Tathāgata possesses immeasurable morality, immeasurable absorption, immeasurable wisdom, immeasurable liberation, and immeasurable knowledge and vision of liberation. Therefore, Siṃhavikrīḍita, because the Tathāgata, Arhat, Perfectly Awakened Buddha possesses an immeasurable assembly of qualities, offerings to him