འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་རང་བཞན་མཉམ་པ་ཉད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.18

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should, for the sake of all beings, obtain¹⁹⁷ this samādhi, understand¹⁹⁸ it, preserve it,¹⁹⁹ recite it to others,²⁰⁰ promote it,²⁰¹ proclaim it,²⁰² chant it,²⁰³ meditate on it with unadulterated²⁰⁴ meditation, promulgate it,²⁰⁵ and make it widely known to others.²⁰⁶

“Young man, what are the buddha qualities of a tathāgata?

“Young man, bodhisattva mahāsattvas, whether in solitude, at the foot of a tree, in the open air, or in an empty building, should learn well the following.

“The Bhagavān is thus: a tathāgata, an arhat, a fully enlightened buddha, one with perfect wisdom and conduct,²⁰⁷ a sugata, one who knows the world’s beings, an unsurpassable guide who tames beings, a teacher of devas and humans, a buddha, a bhagavān.

“The Tathāgata is the natural result of merit. He is the inevitable result of roots of merit. He is adorned by patience. He is the manifestation²⁰⁸ of a treasure of merit. He is beautified by the excellent primary signs of a great being. He has the blossomed²⁰⁹ flowers of the secondary signs of a great being. He is exemplary in his conduct. His appearance is never disagreeable. He brings joy to those motivated by faith. He is invincible in his wisdom. He has the invulnerability of the strengths. He is the teacher of all beings. He is the father of all bodhisattvas. He is the king of all noble individuals. He is the caravan leader for those beginning on their journey. He is immeasurable in his wisdom. He is inconceivable²¹⁰ in his eloquence. He is pure in his voice. He is delightful in his speech. He is lovely in his physical form. He is unequaled in body. He is unstained by the desire realm. He is unsullied by the form realm. He is unadulterated by the formless realm. He is free from suffering.²¹¹ He is liberated from the skandhas. He is separated from the dhātus. He has restrained²¹² the āyatanas. He has cut through the knots.²¹³ He is free from torment.²¹⁴