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 1.4

1.4

and, kneeling on his right knee, with palms placed together bowed toward the Bhagavān and made this request: “If the Bhagavān will give me an opportunity to seek answers to them, I have a few questions for the Bhagavān, the tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened Buddha.”

The Bhagavān addressed the youth Candraprabha, saying, “Young man, ask whatever question you wish of the Tathāgata, the arhat, the perfectly enlightened Buddha, and I shall gratify you with answers to each and every question you have asked.

“Young man, I am omniscient.⁴³ I am all-seeing. I have attained preeminence because of my strengths and fearlessness concerning all Dharmas. I possess the unobscured wisdom of liberation.

“Young man, there is nothing in the endless, infinite worlds⁴⁴ that the Tathāgata does not know, has not seen, has not heard, has not understood, has not directly perceived, and about which he has not become completely enlightened.

“Young man, may you always have the opportunity to ask questions of the Tathāgata, and I will gratify you with answers for each of the questions you ask.”

The Bhagavān having given him this opportunity, the young man Candraprabha⁴⁵ recited these verses to the Bhagavān:

“Lord of the World, Buddha,
Illuminator, bringer of benefit,
Elucidate what kind of practice
Will bring the attainment of inconceivable wisdom. {1}

“Lord of humans, speaker of the truth, preeminent among humans,
To whom humans and devas make offerings, how should one practice
In order to attain the unfathomable,⁴⁶ supreme, highest yāna?
Lord who has supreme speech, answer this question. {2}

“I ask my question with a pure motivation.
There is no guile to be seen within me.⁴⁷
I have no witness⁴⁸ to that
Other than you, sublime being. {3}