དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.23

7.23

They would still not come to an end. {23}

“All of these great beings,
Protectors with dedication,
These bodhisattva heroes,
Where did they come from? {24}

“Who has taught them the Dharma?
Who has brought them to enlightenment?
Whose teaching do they delight in?
Whose⁴³² teachings do they hold? {25}

“This entire ground having broken open,
Throughout all the four directions
There have emerged those with great wisdom
Who are sagacious, and have miraculous powers. {26}

“Muni, this world realm
Has been completely broken apart
And in that way have emerged
These fearless bodhisattvas. {27}

“What has occurred here
We have never seen before.
Guide of the World, tell us
The name of that realm. {28}

“We have been again and again
Throughout the ten directions,
But we have never seen
Such bodhisattvas as these. {29}

“We have never before seen
A single one of these offspring of yours.
But today we have suddenly seen them.
Muni, tell us of their activities. {30}

“Tens of thousands
Of trillions of bodhisattvas,
All filled with astonishment,
Are looking at the supreme human. {31}

“Immeasurable one, devoid of the skandhas,⁴³³
Great hero, we ask you to reveal to us,
Courageous one, from where have come
These bodhisattvas who have no fear?” {32}

At that time, the bhagavān tathāgata Śākyamuni’s emanations as other tathāgatas, arhats, perfectly enlightened buddhas who had arrived from a hundred thousand quintillion world realms were teaching beings in other worlds.⁴³⁴ They were sitting cross-legged on lion thrones made of precious materials at the foot of trees made of precious materials in all eight directions from the bhagavān, the tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened buddha Śākyamuni. The followers of those tathāgatas also saw a great gathering of bodhisattva mahāsattvas,