འཕགས་པ་བླ་གྲས་མ་ཟད་པས་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.8

1.8

“The ways of the world are changeable like a mountain brook in this world.
Still, the ignorant beings cling to that which has no core.
When they know that all phenomena are like autumn clouds,
They pass beyond existence, and they despise it.

“Your eyes are like blooming red lotus flowers
That shine more brightly than a hundred suns and moons.
You are worthy of praise, you are praised and extolled by the whole world,
And you are freed from the illness that is the lack of discipline. To you I bow.

“Mighty one, you have reached unlimited perfection,
And your qualities have been perfected in the most distinguished way.
The qualities of the Bliss-Gone One cannot be measured.
I bow down to the Awakened One, the field of merit.”

After he had praised the Blessed One with these fitting verses, the bodhisatva Akṣayamati, together with the six hundred million other bodhisatvas, came down from the sky, greeted the Blessed One by bowing to his feet, and circumambulated him seven times. With the Blessed One’s permission, they sat down in the calyxes of the lotuses with their legs crossed.

Then, by the power of the Buddha, Venerable Śāradvatīputra got up from his seat, put his cloak over one shoulder, placed his right knee on the ground, bowed in the direction of the Blessed One with the palms of his hands joined, and said, “Blessed One, where does this bodhisatva Akṣayamati come from? What is the name of the tathāgata there? What is the name of that world sphere, and how far is that world sphere from here?”

The Blessed One said, “Śāradvatīputra, you should ask the bodhisatva Akṣayamati, and he will instruct you.”