འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.2
The Dharma Council 1.2
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1.2
who maintained the scope and referents of omniscient wisdom, who reached the culmination of the sublime expanse of phenomena that is without center or edge, who had perfected all of the aims and intentions of a bodhisattva, who had mastered the realization of all the bodhisattva powers, who had attained the ten culminations, who were adorned with infinite ornaments of good qualities, and who had mastered the realization of the samādhi, dhāraṇī, patience, and correct discernments of a bodhisattva. There were also hundreds of thousands of gods, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kinnaras, mahoragas, śakras, brahmās, and many hundreds of thousands of resplendent world guardians, along with many hundreds of thousands of attendants.
On that occasion, the Blessed One was teaching the great approach to the Dharma called Entering the Gate of the Progressive Approach to All Dharmas:
“By seeing the noble ones, one will attain faith. By attaining faith, one will aspire to virtuous qualities. By aspiring to virtuous qualities, one will attain stream entry. By attaining stream entry, one will fulfill one’s purpose. By fulfilling one’s purpose, one will attain mastery. By attaining mastery, one will become generous. Through being generous, one will attain great prosperity. Through discipline, one will attain the higher realms. Through patience, one will become attractive in all ways. Through diligence,
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- འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan