འཕགས་པ་གང་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.23

1.23

Pūrṇa, since the monk Mahāśumata carefully looked after the Dharma preacher Mahāsthāmaprāpta, innumerable sentient beings were introduced to the noble teachings, and all of them were established in the awakening of the buddhas.

“Pūrṇa, the Dharma preacher Mahāsthāmaprāpta who guarded and expounded the sublime Dharma at that time was the bodhisattva Maitreya himself. Do not think that this was someone else. Pūrṇa, furthermore, through the power of the merit gathered by looking after, supplicating, and accompanying the Dharma preacher, after he passed away, the monk Mahāśumata was reborn in the tenth universe in the direction of the nadir, within the field of the thus-gone one known as Supreme Assembly. There he requested that Thus-Gone One to teach the discourse known as Eliminating the Doubts of All Beings. At that time, the Thus-Gone One expressed his approval one hundred thousand times and then taught him the discourse called The Gateway to the Compendium and Source of All Dharma Teachings. As he taught this discourse, countless sentient beings gave rise to the mind set on unsurpassed and perfect awakening, and genuinely engaged in that attitude.

“Pūrṇa, after that when the monk Mahāśumata passed away again, he was reborn in the presence of the thus-gone one called Sumeru, from whom he requested the discourse called The Compendium and Source of All Dharmas. At that time, that thus-gone one expressed his approval one hundred thousand times and taught him the discourse called The Gateway to the Compendium and Source of All Dharmas. As he taught this discourse, countless sentient beings became certain to attain unsurpassed and perfect awakening.

“Then, after he had passed away again, he was reborn in the presence of the thus-gone one called Merurāja, from whom he requested the discourse called The Gateway of All Dharmas.