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 1.19

1.19

He is released from craving.²¹⁵ He has crossed over the great river. He is complete in his wisdom. He is established in the wisdom of the buddha bhagavāns of the past, future, and present. He does not remain in nirvāṇa. He resides at the summit of existence. He is on the level of seeing all beings. Young man, those are the buddha qualities of a tathāgata. ²¹⁶

“If bodhisattva mahāsattvas who possess these buddha qualities and their praise,²¹⁷ and who have continuous confidence of speech based upon this samādhi, teach correctly the buddha qualities and praises of the Tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened Buddha, there will be no loss of meaning or words and all their words will come forth as those of the Buddha.”

Then at that time the Bhagavān, in order to make the meaning clear, gave a detailed teaching by chanting the following extensive verses to the youth Candraprabha.²¹⁸

“It would not be easy to recite all the praises of the jinas
Even if one were to speak for many thousands of eons;
And the jinas attained their qualities
Through seeking this supreme samādhi of peace. {1}

“In the past, when I sought this supreme samādhi of peace
With a mind that was indefatigable,
I gave away a maiden adorned in jewelry,
Who was perfectly beautiful and desirable. {2}

“In the past, when I sought this supreme samādhi of peace
With a mind that was indefatigable,
I gave away male and female servants, riches and grain,
And also jewels, pearls, gold, and silver. {3}

“When I sought this supreme samādhi of peace
In the past, I gave to the guides
Various kinds of precious jewels, strings of pearls,
Beautiful clothes, and necklaces of conch and gold. {4}

“In countless, endless millions²¹⁹ of eons
I developed the highest supreme aspiration,