[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) › [Saptabuddhaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka) › [འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བདུན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo) › [The Seven Buddhas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000) › notes.3 # འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བདན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.3 The Seven Buddhas notes.3 - **Language:** English ### [notes.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes.3) 3. Their existence is a natural consequence of the doctrine according to which a bodhisattva will become a buddha only after serving other buddhas, and eventually receiving vyākaraṇa (prediction of awakening) from one of them. - [Previous: notes.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes.2) - [Next: notes.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes.4) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes.3) · Pramāṇa