དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 11.15

11.15

‘Noble ones, who is your teacher? Whose students are you?’

“Then, noble ones, those two boys said to King Śubhavyūha, ‘Great King, the bhagavān, the tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened buddha Jala­dhara­garjita­ghoṣa­susvarana­kṣatra­rāja­saṃkusumitābhi­jña­ is alive, present, and remaining in this world. He sits upon a Dharma seat at the foot of a precious Bodhi tree. Before the world with its devas, Māra, and Brahmā,⁶²⁷ he is teaching extensively the Dharma teaching of The White Lotus of the Good Dharma. That Bhagavān is our teacher. Great King, we are his students.’

“Then, noble ones, King Śubhavyūha said to the two boys, ‘Noble ones, I also shall go before the Bhagavān and see your teacher.’

“Then, noble ones, the two boys descended from the sky, and went to where their birth mother was, and having arrived, placed their ten fingers and palms together in homage, and they said to their birth mother, ‘Mother, we have guided our father toward the highest, complete enlightenment. We have performed the role of teacher for our father. Therefore, Mother,⁶²⁸ it is now appropriate for you to let us go. We shall become renunciants under the Bhagavān.

“Then, noble ones, at that time the boy Vimalagarbha and the boy Vimalanetra recited these verses to their birth mother:

“ ‘Mother, give us the permission
To become homeless renunciants.
It is difficult to find a tathāgata.
We shall become renunciants! {1}

“ ‘Like the flower of the fig tree,
It is extremely difficult to find a jina.
It is difficult to become endowed with opportunity.
Allow us to leave to become renunciants!’ {2}

“Queen Vimaladattā replied: