འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.11
The Dharma Council 7.11
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7.11
“Mañjuśrī, bodhisattvas should therefore constantly listen to this way. Those who wish to quickly escape should listen to this way. Bodhisattvas who wish for the status of being prophesied should listen to this way. Those who wish to purify the obscurations of karma, the obscurations of the afflictive emotions, the cognitive obscurations, and impediments to progress should listen to this way. Those who wish to make an unsurpassable offering to the Thus-Gone One should listen to this way. Those who wish to uphold the sublime Dharma should listen to this way. Mañjuśrī, I will prophesy the unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening of those beings who hear this way and adopt it, do not abandon it, and do not disparage it.”
At that moment the bodhisattva great being Nirārambha unfastened a pearl necklace worth a hundred thousand²¹⁰ and cast it toward the Blessed One. He then said, “Blessed One, through the Dharma of giving, may all beings become exactly like the thus-gone, blessed, completely perfect Buddha.” The pearl necklace then became a mansion directly above the Blessed One’s head that was visible to both gods and humans. It was a beautifully decorated square palace that had not been previously seen or heard about by the great śrāvakas, bodhisattvas, Indra, Brahmā, or the world guardians. It followed the Blessed One as he moved and remained in place when he sat. The great crowd of gods and humans were astounded and amazed; filled with wonder, they joined their palms above their heads. They then bowed toward the Blessed One and remained there, wide-eyed.
The bodhisattva great being Nirārambha felt amazed and delighted.
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- འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan