འཕགས་པ་ཀླའ་རྒྱལ་པ་རྒྱ་མཚས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1

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Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas!

Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was residing within the ocean in the realm of the nāga king Sāgara. He was in the courtyard of the nāga king Sāgara together with a great monastic saṅgha of eight thousand monks and an assembly of bodhisattva great beings who had assembled from the worlds of the ten directions, a vast number of whom had attained supernatural knowledge. Also present there were Śakra, Brahmā, and the guardians of the world, and many trillions of gods, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kinnaras, and mahoragas.

Then the Blessed One, knowing the assembly in its entirety, spoke to the nāga king Sāgara, “Lord of nāgas, alas! The state of this world has been shaped by various kinds of karma. The predispositions to various kinds of karma are in turn conditioned by a variety of mental apprehensions.