འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་མ་སྤང་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4

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Please explain that noble teaching.

“Your teaching is excellent in terms of its clarity, source, and relevance.
Tirelessly, you eliminate existence and overcome its states.
Excellent mendicant, your perfect speech dispels all doubts.
Victorious Well-Gone One, you teach all the modes of stainless conduct.

“Over hundreds of past lives, you accrued virtuous qualities.
You diligently dedicated all for the benefit and happiness of beings.
For long you relinquished jewels, elephants, and horses,
And the company of women and children as well.⁷

“Delighting in patience and discipline, you ardently practiced the virtues of discipline.
You joyfully pursued intelligence and took on austerities and hardships.
In the pursuit of good qualities, you endured hundreds of sufferings.
Victor, there is no doubt that you have attained all this.

“You are skilled in conduct and have relinquished all doubts.
You are free of the defects of the three stains and all faults.
You have entered all existences.
Protector, please explain the proper conduct of supreme awakening!”

The Blessed One then addressed the bodhisattva great being Undaunted: “Noble son, none of these ten bodhisattvas has in fact forsaken the Buddha.”

The bodhisattva great being then asked, “Blessed One, what do you mean by saying that they have not forsaken the Buddha?”

The Blessed One replied, “Noble son, in a bygone age, thirty eons ago, in a world called Mirage, a thus-gone one named Roar of Vision appeared. In the period after this thus-gone one had passed into parinirvāṇa, these ten noble sons were born as the sons of householders who were like great śāla trees. At that time, these ten noble sons commissioned the building of five hundred monasteries. In each of those monasteries, a thousand monks resided. Noble son, at that time there was a Dharma teacher named Pratibhānakūṭa who had attained dhāraṇī and was teaching the Dharma.