འཕགས་པ་དཀན་མཆག་སྤྲན་ཅས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.7

1.7

nor of any light from planets or stars. The land there is perfectly even, like the palm of a hand, and there are no grasses, trees, rocks, walls, or mountains.

In that realm there was a bodhisattva great being known as Sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkam­bhin, who had the power to exhaust all the obscurations of whoever merely heard his name. The light of the Thus-Gone One touched and inspired Sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkam­bhin, and so he left his own abode and journeyed to the place where Buddha Padma­netra was residing. He bowed his head down to the feet of the Blessed One and took his seat before Padma­netra. Similarly, other bodhisattvas were touched and inspired by the light, so they also left their respective residences and went to see the blessed thus-gone Padma­netra. They bowed their heads to his feet and took their place before him.

At that time the bodhisattva great being Sarva­nīvaraṇa­viṣkam­bhin rose from his seat, draped his shawl over one shoulder, and knelt with his right knee in the center of a lotus flower. Joining his palms, he bowed toward the blessed thus-gone Padma­netra. “Blessed One,” he asked, “by whose power is it that this excellent light emerges, which is so bright, immaculate, delightful, and utterly gratifying for the body and mind?”

The blessed thus-gone Padma­netra replied, “Noble son, in the west, beyond as many worlds as there are grains of sand in the river Gaṅgā, there is a world known as Endurance. Therein resides the one known as Śākyamuni. He is a thus-gone, worthy,