འཕགས་པ་འདལ་བ་རྣམ་པར་གཏན་ལ་དབབ་པ་ཉ་བར་འཁར་གྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.6
Determining the Vinaya: Upāli’s Questions 1.6
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1.6
The bodhisattva Dharmākara said, “Bhagavān, I wish to liberate beings through the Dharma.”
The bodhisattva Nothing said, “Bhagavān, I wish to eliminate all the poisonous afflictions of beings.”
The bodhisattva Candrottara said, “Bhagavān, I wish to teach the perspective of the Dharma to beings.”
The bodhisattva Siṃhamati said, “Bhagavān, I wish to give the gift of Dharma to beings.”
The bodhisattva Luminous Youth said, “Bhagavān, I wish to liberate beings from inferior states.”
The bodhisattva Glorious Awakening said, “Bhagavān, I wish to block beings’ way to lower rebirths by teaching them the exalted way.”
The bodhisattva Suvarṇaprabha said, “Bhagavān, I wish to bring beings to maturity by displaying a physical body.”
The bodhisattva Puṇyaketu said, “Bhagavān, I wish to help those beings who help others.”
The bodhisattva Jagatīndhara said, “Bhagavān, I wish to destroy beings’ gateway into hell.”
The bodhisattva Nectar Holder said, “Bhagavān, I wish to save beings from saṃsāra.”
The youthful bodhisattva Jālinīprabha said, “Bhagavān, in the future, in later times, I wish to pacify beings’ afflictions through displays of light.”
After hearing such revelations from the bodhisattvas about