དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.18

2.18

“Śārisuta, I teach to them the method
That will bring an end to their suffering.
On seeing beings tortured by suffering
I then give to them the teaching of nirvāṇa. {67}

“Thus I give all these Dharma teachings
Of eternal nirvāṇa and primordial peace,
While a bodhisattva¹³⁴ who has perfected his practice
Will in a future time become a jina. {68}

“Similarly, the three yānas that I teach
Are a skillful method of mine.
There is but one yāna, but one way—
There is but this one teaching of the guides. {69}

“Those of you here who have doubt about this
Should dispel your doubt and your uncertainty.
The guides of the world do not teach anything else.
There is but this one yāna; there is no second. {70}

“The tathāgatas who have appeared in the past,
The many¹³⁵ thousands of buddhas who have entered nirvāṇa
In the countless eons of the past
Could never be enumerated. {71}

“All those supreme beings
Gave many pure Dharma teachings
Through parables, causes, and reasons,
And through hundreds of skillful methods. {72}

“All of them taught one yāna.
They brought countless billions
Of beings into that single yāna
And ripened them in that single yāna. {73}

“The tathāgatas, in a world with its devas,
Knowing the aspirations and thoughts of beings,
Are teaching this supreme Dharma
With other various methods of the jinas. {74}

“Those beings who in their presence
Are listening to the Dharma or have listened to it,
Who have practiced generosity, maintained good conduct,
Who have accomplished all practices with patience, {75}

“Who have served with diligence and meditation,
Who have contemplated with wisdom these Dharma teachings,
And have created various kinds of merit:
They will all of them attain enlightenment. {76}

“Those beings who have followed the teaching
Of the jinas who have passed into nirvāṇa,