སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པ་ཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 31.8
The Ten Bhūmis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array 31.8
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31.8
Why did this happen? It was because he (1) had attained the intrinsic nature of that samādhi, (2) had accomplished a previous prayer,⁵⁴ (3) had perfectly purified higher motivation, (4) had the perfectly clarified circle⁵⁵ of wisdom, (5) had perfectly accumulated the accumulations, (6) had become perfectly immaculate,⁵⁶ (7) had become a vessel for limitless memory, (8) had the purity of clear motivation, and (9) had perfectly realized the distinct⁵⁷ doors of retention, and because he had (10) applied the seal of the knowledge of the essence of the Dharma.
Those buddha bhagavats who were present there extended their right hands through their miraculous power and stroked the bodhisattva Vajragarbha’s head.
As soon as the bodhisattva Vajragarbha was touched by those buddha bhagavats, he arose from that samādhi and said to the bodhisattvas, “O jinaputras! This bodhisattva aspiration (1) is perfectly certain,⁵⁸ (2) is not separate,⁵⁹ (3) cannot be viewed,⁶⁰ (4) is the vast essence of the Dharma,⁶¹ (5) extends to the limits of space,⁶² (6) reaches the ultimate conclusion,⁶³ and (7) is the protection of the realm of beings.⁶⁴
“O jinaputras! The bodhisattva mahāsattvas enter the wisdom bhūmis of the buddha bhagavats of the past. They enter the wisdom bhūmis of the buddha bhagavats of the future. They enter the wisdom bhūmis of the buddha bhagavats of the present.
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- སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan