[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) › intro.6 # འཕགས་པ་གསར་གྱ་བྱ་མ་ལྟ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.6 Like Gold Dust intro.6 - **Language:** English ### [intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000.intro.6) The Buddha then concludes his teaching with a further analogy—referenced in the sūtra’s title—to illustrate that although buddhas and bodhisattvas are innumerable, it is nevertheless extremely rare and precious to find a buddha within any given world system, or to find a world system in which bodhisattvas engage sincerely in bodhisattva conduct. To encounter such things, he says, is as rare as finding a single grain of gold dust among all the sands of the ocean, or all the sands of the mighty river Gaṅgā. - [Previous: intro.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000.intro.5) - [Next: intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000.intro.7) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000.intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.other.suvarnabalukopama*bo~en-84000.intro.6) · Pramāṇa