འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱ་ཡལ་བསམ་གྱས་མ་ཁྱབ་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.4

2.4

the god Śrībhadra circumambulated the Bhagavān, Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta, and the entire saṅgha of bodhisattvas and śrāvakas, then disappeared from the assembly, departing for the Heaven of Joy.

There, the god Śrībhadra said to the gods of the Heaven of Joy, “Friends, let it be known! Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta is coming here out of love and compassion for us. You, gods of the Heaven of Joy, give up your heedless joys and pleasures. Be heedful, and come to listen to the Dharma of Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta!”

In order to make offerings to Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta, the god Śrībhadra prepared an assembly space enclosed by water in the center of the Heaven of Joy. It was made from all kinds of precious jewels sprung from the minds of the gods, and it extended thirty-two thousand yojanas from east to west and sixteen thousand yojanas from north to south. In it he set out various lion thrones, beautiful to behold, adorned with many hundreds and thousands of heavenly fabrics, and many thousands of seating mats. Having arranged the assembly space in this fashion and prepared the lion thrones, the god Śrībhadra joined his palms and said to Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta, “Mañjuśrī, the assembly space and the lion thrones are ready. If you deem the time opportune, please approach.”

At that moment, Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta, accompanied by twelve thousand bodhisattvas and five hundred excellent śrāvakas, and surrounded and escorted by thousands of gods, nāgas, yakṣas, and gandharvas, bowed his head to the Bhagavān’s feet, circumambulated the Bhagavān three times, then disappeared from the Bhagavān’s presence and arrived at that very instant in the Heaven of Joy.

Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta then took his seat upon the throne that had been set out for him in the midst of that assembly space made from precious jewels. The bodhisattvas and the great śrāvakas,