[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) › [Other Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other) › [Amṛtavyāharaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.amrtavyaharana) › [འཕགས་པ་བདུད་རྩི་བརྗོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.amrtavyaharana*bo) › [The Nectar of Speech](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.amrtavyaharana*bo~en-84000) › 1 # འཕགས་པ་བདད་རྩ་བརྗད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1 The Nectar of Speech 1 - **Language:** English ### [1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.amrtavyaharana*bo~en-84000.1) Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas. Thus did I hear at one time. The Bhagavān was residing in Rājagṛha, at the Kalandaka­nivāsa in Veṇuvana, with a great saṅgha of five hundred bhikṣus and a great saṅgha of seventy-two thousand bodhisattvas. At that time the bodhisattva mahāsattva Maitreya was also seated in the assembly. The bodhisattva mahāsattva Maitreya rose from his seat, draped his upper robe over one shoulder, knelt on his right knee, and with palms joined bowed to the Bhagavān and said, “With permission, I would like to ask the blessed, thus-gone, worthy, perfect Buddha some questions.” The Bhagavān replied, “Maitreya, the Tathāgata will always grant you permission. Maitreya, ask the thus-gone, worthy, perfect Buddha whatever you wish, and I shall ease your mind by answering each of your questions.” The bodhisattva mahāsattva Maitreya then asked the Bhagavān, “Bhagavān, - [Previous: intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.amrtavyaharana*bo~en-84000.intro.4) - [Next: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.amrtavyaharana*bo~en-84000.2) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་བདུད་རྩི་བརྗོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.amrtavyaharana*bo.1) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.amrtavyaharana*bo~en-84000.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.amrtavyaharana*bo~en-84000.1) · Pramāṇa