འཕགས་པ་ཡ་ག་མད་པའ་ཟ་མ་ཏག་རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་ཀྱ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2

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affectionate toward sentient beings. They had attained many meditative concentrations, possessed the hand of insight, and showed great respect to their teachers.

They resembled the bodhisattva great being Ratnadvīpa.²⁴ They knew what was virtuous and nonvirtuous and comprehended deception. They comprehended both semantic elucidation and inexhaustible eloquence.²⁵ They had attained victory and they engendered comprehension in all sentient beings. They emerged from and relied upon²⁶ the limit of reality.²⁷ Extremely heroic, they had no abode.²⁸ They were certain about the nature of the highest teachings. Their thoughts distinctly focused on the lack of inherent existence, they were courageous with regard to the matrix.²⁹

They were beings who despised rebirth. They comprehended phenomena and knew their bases of characterization. They were guardians and protectors of realms. They were renowned. They were endowed with the conqueror’s voice, endowed with the treasury of conquest, and endowed with the matrix without words. Absolutely awake and absorbed in the aggregate of knowledge, they delighted in their own actions and relied on those who were like them.³⁰ They were good in every way, took delight in equality, and were completely pure. They had purified their own and others’ continuums and attained victory.

Together there were the following: the bodhisattva great being Voice of Victory, the bodhisattva great being Dharma Speaker, the bodhisattva great being Conqueror’s Abode, the bodhisattva great being Emanation of the Dharma, the bodhisattva great being Source of a Thousand Attributes,³¹ the bodhisattva great being Aspirations Amassed, the bodhisattva great being Viśeṣacintin, the bodhisattva great being Dharaṇīdhara, the bodhisattva great being Jagatīndhara,³² the bodhisattva great being