[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) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Sūtras on buddhas, their lands and names](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha) › [Dvādaśabuddhaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.dvadasabuddhaka) › [འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.dvadasabuddhaka*bo-d853) › [The Twelve Buddhas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.dvadasabuddhaka*bo-d853~en-84000) › 7 # འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བཅ་གཉས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7 The Twelve Buddhas 7 - **Language:** English ### [7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.dvadasabuddhaka*bo-d853~en-84000.7) in the Victor’s teaching. “Those who bear these names in mind Will hear the profound Dharma From all the world protectors And retain all they have heard. “Then they will perfect All the perfections and the grounds, The four types of fearlessness, the powers, And the major and minor marks. “They will go to the field Of one of those buddhas. They will realize unsurpassed, perfect, Complete awakening and become a buddha. “A buddha could describe These and the other qualities Of any man or woman Who bears these names in mind for an entire eon. “People who heed this teaching And learn about these excellent qualities Should bear the names of these renowned Perfect buddhas in mind. “Anyone who hears the names Of these buddhas who are glorious by nature, Who are world protectors, supreme among human beings, And celestial kings in the course of an eon, “And those who hear and learn their names Will be moved by devotion, Will develop great insight into all things, And will become supreme among human beings. “What wise, insightful person, Having learned the names of these great sages And heeded this teaching, Would not bear them in mind?” After the Blessed One had spoken, the bodhisattva great being Maitreya, the entire retinue of monks and bodhisattvas, and the whole world with its gods, humans, asuras, and gandharvas were delighted and praised his words. Colophon This text was translated and edited by the Indian preceptors Jinamitra and Dānaśīla along with the chief editor and translator Bandé Yeshé Dé and then finalized.²⁷ - [Previous: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.dvadasabuddhaka*bo-d853~en-84000.6) - [Next: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.dvadasabuddhaka*bo-d853~en-84000.8) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.dvadasabuddhaka*bo-d853.7) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.dvadasabuddhaka*bo-d853~en-84000.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.dvadasabuddhaka*bo-d853~en-84000.7) · Pramāṇa