འཕགས་པ་མ་ཏག་ག་ཚགས་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.13

intro.13

In the last section (–), it is Mahākāśyapa who enters the scene as the Buddha’s interlocutor. The Buddha addresses him multiple times, but Mahākāśyapa directly speaks to the Buddha only near the very end of the sūtra (). It is possible to infer from this detail that Mahākāśyapa is mostly in some kind of absorption while interacting with the Buddha. Indeed, this section of the text includes several allusions to the topic of meditative absorption, with the names of specific absorptions sometimes appearing in the names of the buddhas listed. The topic of emptiness is addressed here for the first time. Throughout this section, the Buddha breaks into verse, summarizing each prose passage in turn.