[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) › [Doctrinal sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma) › [Dharmasaṅgīti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti) › [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo) › [The Dharma Council](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000) › 3.21 # འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.21 The Dharma Council 3.21 - **Language:** English ### [3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.21) “Furthermore, a bodhisattva thinks, ‘The twelve sense bases—the sense bases of the eye and form, the ear and sound, the nose and smell, the tongue and taste, the body and texture, and the mind and mental phenomena—are all nothing more than that. They do not have notions of “I” and “mine.” ’ To understand in this way is known as a bodhisattva’s knowledge of the sense bases. “What is a bodhisattva’s knowledge of the past and future? It is knowing that nothing has departed in the past and nothing will come in the future. This is known as knowledge of the past and future. Additionally, the bodhisattva knows that the past is gone and nothing will be created in the future. This, child of good family, is a bodhisattva’s knowledge of the past and future. “What is knowledge of the path and its result? Knowledge of the six perfections is knowledge of the path. Knowing the ten bodhisattva levels and the level of a thus-gone one is knowledge of the result. Knowing all this is a bodhisattva’s knowledge of the path and its result. “Child of good family, these are the ten types of knowledge of bodhisattvas. “Child of good family, bodhisattvas should understand the force of attaining the ripening of the undefiled virtues through these ten approaches to the way of the Dharma.” Once this pronouncement of the Dharma had been made, the seventy-six thousand bodhisattvas with prior training attained acceptance of the nonarising of phenomena. The bodhisattva Mativikrama then addressed the bodhisattva Nirārambha: “Child of good family, please eloquently describe the Dharma of the bodhisattvas that involves the perfections. - [Previous: 3.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.20) - [Next: 3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.22) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo.3.21) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmasangiti*bo~en-84000.3.21) · Pramāṇa