འཕགས་པ་སྙང་རྗ་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 145

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may all beings acquire the mindfulness of the bodhisattvas who have set out toward great enlightenment, who have compassionately set out toward complete enlightenment for the sake of all beings, and who will not turn back.’

“Noble son, when the bodhisattva Ratnaketu thus bowed down to the feet of the Tathāgata Ratnagarbha, all beings acquired such mindfulness, that is, all beings were caused to have compassionate minds.

“Then, noble son, the Tathāgata Ratnagarbha said to the bodhisattva Ratnaketu:

“ ‘Rise up, steadfast one, you who have excellent intelligence and a supreme form.
You have made a firm commitment for the sake of beings.
You will establish many beings in a stainless mind;
You will become supreme among men, a most eminent buddha.’

“Then, in the same way, five hundred princes, preceded by Mārdava, made prayers of aspiration and obtained arrays of qualities of a buddha realm just as the bodhisattva Gaganamudra had prayed and obtained arrays of qualities of a buddha realm. The Tathāgata Ratnagarbha gave prophecies of the highest, complete enlightenment to them all, saying that at such a time, in this or that world realm, they would reach the highest, most complete enlightenment.

“Another four hundred princes chose the array of buddha-realm qualities that Vajraccheda­prajñā­vabhāsaśrī had prayed for, and the Tathāgata Ratnagarbha gave prophecies to them all too, saying that in this or that world realm, they would reach the highest, most complete enlightenment.

“Another ninety princes chose buddha realms like those Samantabhadra had prayed for.