[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) › [Suvarṇabālukopama](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama) › [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་གྱི་བྱེ་མ་ལྟ་བུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo) › [Like Gold Dust](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000) › 7 # འཕགས་པ་གསར་གྱ་བྱ་མ་ལྟ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7 Like Gold Dust 7 - **Language:** English ### [7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000.7) Are there any world systems in which bodhisattvas do not engage in bodhisattva conduct?” The Blessed One replied, “To draw an analogy Ānanda, in those world systems that I have spoken of, the appearance of blessed buddhas, and bodhisattvas who engage in bodhisattva conduct, is as rare, Ānanda, as gold dust among the sands of the great ocean or the sands of the river Gaṅgā. Ānanda, the appearance of blessed buddhas in any world system, and world systems in which bodhisattvas engage in bodhisattva conduct, are as rare as this. Ānanda, world systems in which blessed buddhas appear, and in which bodhisattvas engage in bodhisattva conduct, are as uncommon as someone finding a single grain of gold among all the sands of the great ocean or the sands of the river Gaṅgā.” Thus spoke the Blessed One, and Venerable Ānanda, together with the monks and bodhisattvas, as well as the world of gods, humans, asuras, and gandharvas, rejoiced and praised what the Blessed One had said. Colophon Translated, edited, and finalized by the Indian preceptors Surendrabodhi and Prajñāvarman, and the chief editor-translator Bandé Yeshé Dé, and others. - [Previous: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000.6) - [Next: notes.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000.notes.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-mt.7) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་གྱི་བྱེ་མ་ལྟ་བུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo.7) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000.7) · Pramāṇa