འཕགས་པ་གང་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.24

1.24

At that time, that thus-gone one expressed his approval one hundred thousand times and taught him in detail the discourse called The Gateway 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 once more, he was reborn in the presence of the thus-gone one called Brahmaghoṣa, from whom he requested the discourse called The Compendium of All Dharmas. At that time, that thus-gone one expressed his approval one hundred thousand times and taught him in detail the discourse called The Compendium of All Dharmas. As he taught this discourse, countless sentient beings became certain to attain unsurpassed and perfect awakening.

“Pūrṇa, the monk Mahāśumata requested many discourses as he came into the presence of all those buddhas, meeting one thus-gone one after another. He saved sentient beings and established them in the state of unsurpassed and perfect awakening. Even if I were to speak for eons or even longer, it would not be enough time to mention the names of all those many buddhas, or to mention all those sentient beings who were established within the state of unsurpassed and perfect awakening. Pūrṇa, indescribable is the number of teachings preserved by the monk Mahāśumata, which were taught to him by those thus-gone ones—those buddhas as numerous as the grains of sand in the Ganges river—who were present in those worlds or had passed into complete nirvāṇa. Pūrṇa, you should therefore understand that bodhisattva great beings will attain such vast qualities if they contemplate the meaning of previously unheard Dharma teachings.

“Pūrṇa, the monk Mahāśumata who, at that time, received Dharma teachings that he had never heard before from the Dharma preacher Mahāsthāmaprāpta,