འཕགས་པ་སྙང་རྗ་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 15

15

‘Noble son, when I have passed into parinirvāṇa, the Dharma will remain for ten intermediate eons, and then my Dharma will come to an end in the middle⁴⁸ period of the night. In the last period of that night, you will attain the complete enlightenment of perfect buddhahood. You will become the tathāgata arhat samyaksam­buddha, the one with wisdom and virtuous conduct, and so on, the bhagavat buddha named Padmottara.’

“At that time, the bodhisattva mahāsattvas came to the bhagavat tathāgata arhat samyaksam­buddha Candrottama. When they had come before the bhagavat tathāgata arhat samyaksam­buddha Candrottama, through the power of samādhi, with manifold bodhisattva miracles, all those bodhisattvas made offerings to the Tathāgata Candrottama, circumambulated him three times, and then said to the Bhagavat, ‘Bhadanta Bhagavat, we will remain,⁴⁹ with our minds in a state of cessation, for those ten intermediate eons.’

“Then, noble son, the tathāgata arhat samyaksam­buddha Candrottama said to the bodhisattva mahāsattva Gaganamudra, ‘You must acquire, noble son, the dhāraṇī entranceway that is the form of omniscience. All the past⁵⁰ tathāgata arhat samyaksam­buddhas have taught it to the bodhisattvas they have consecrated to be their regents. Also, the present bhagavat buddhas who reside, live, and remain in the worlds in the ten directions