འཕགས་པ་སང་གས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2

2

He departed from Rājagṛha
With great royal grandeur.¹³ {2}

Carrying golden parasols,¹⁴
They went before the perfect Buddha.
Bowing their heads to the feet of the Buddha,
They offered the five hundred parasols. {3}

Offering these to the Great Sage,
All of them set out for awakening.
By the power of the perfect Buddha,
They became fearless.¹⁵ {4}

Siṃha joined his palms in reverence
And asked the perfect Buddha,
“Will the Guide¹⁶ please explain to me
The conduct of bodhisattvas? {5}

“How does one become beautiful?
How does one take miraculous birth?¹⁷
How does one remember previous births?
Great Sage, please give your instruction.” {6}

Knowing their pure intentions with his wisdom,
The Buddha gave his instruction:
“I will give a teaching on what you have asked:
The conduct of bodhisattvas.¹⁸ {7}

“One becomes beautiful through patience.
One takes miraculous birth by pure conduct.¹⁹
One recalls past lives by giving the Dharma.
Youth, know it to be thus!”²⁰ {8}

“How does one manifest
The thirty-two marks, the eighty excellent signs,
And a body radiant like gold²¹
That delights beings upon seeing?” {9}

“The marks manifest through complete generosity.
Likewise, the excellent signs come to be through love.
The golden radiance of the victorious ones
Manifests by having an attitude of equality toward all beings.”²² {10}

“How is retention attained?
How does absorption arise?
How do statements become acceptable?
Great Sage, please give your teaching!”²³ {11}

“Retention is attained through receptivity to the Dharma.
Absorption arises by training the mind.
Statements become acceptable
When one abandons senseless talk.”²⁴ {12}

“How does one become mindful?
O Sage,²⁵ how does one become intelligent?
How does one come to act according to the Dharma?²⁶