འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.20

1.20

This refers to being equivalent to bodhisattvas in terms of enjoyments and behavior, as well as being equivalent in features, diet, speech, rites, and conduct. This is what is meant by ‘the enjoyment buddha.’

“What is the emanation buddha? Buddhas and bodhisattvas who have attained the samādhi of displaying all forms settle into that samādhi, attain power, and, impelled by great compassion, emanate the form of a buddha and tame beings. This is what is meant by ‘the emanation buddha.’

“What is the conceptually designated buddha? Some regard a teacher or preceptor³³ to be like a buddha and serve them as if they were a buddha. By seeing teachers and preceptors as buddhas and serving them as if they were buddhas, they accept and perfect the qualities of a buddha. This accomplishment is called ‘the conceptually designated buddha.’

“What is the buddha in one’s presence? Some people fashion images of a buddha or have others fashion one for them. They venerate it through all the practices of worship and service, treat it with respect, paint it, invest it with the qualities of the buddhas, and thereby make it perfect. This achievement is called ‘the buddha in one’s presence.’

“Child of good family, bodhisattvas should understand the Buddha through these ten approaches to the way of the Dharma.

“Child of good family, bodhisattvas should understand ten types of conventional teachings given by the thus-gone, worthy, completely perfect buddhas. What are the ten? (1) The teaching on the aggregates, (2) the teaching on the elements, (3) the teaching on the sense bases, (4) the teaching on beings, (5) the teaching on action, (6) the teaching on birth, (7) the teaching on old age, (8) the teaching on death, (9) the teaching on transmigration upon death,