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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 5.22

The King of Samādhis Sūtra 5.22

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5.22

has been explained by many buddhas, and has been praised⁶⁵⁰ by many buddhas.

“Young man, I have entered homelessness in the presence of many buddha bhagavāns. I heard extensively from them this samādhi, the revealed equality of the nature of all phenomena. I obtained it, asked questions about it, preserved it, recited it to others, promoted it, meditated on it with unadulterated meditation, promulgated it,⁶⁵¹ and made it widely known to others.”⁶⁵²

Thereupon the Bhagavān taught extensively in verse what he had previously said about the samādhi doorway taught by many buddhas.

“I remember countless, innumerable eons ago
There was a jina named Svarāṅgaghoṣa.
Tathāgata Svarāṅgaghoṣa
Had a lifespan of six thousand years. {1}

“After him there was a buddha,
A supreme man named Jñāneśvara.
Jñāneśvara, highest of humans,
Had a lifespan of twelve thousand years. {2}

“After Jñāneśvara there was a buddha,
A jina who was named Tejeśvara.
Tejeśvara, highest of humans,
Had a lifespan of sixty-seven thousand years. {3}

“After Tejeśvara there was a buddha,
A jina who was named Matīśvara.
Matīśvara, highest of humans,
Had a lifespan of ten million years. {4}

“After Matīśvara there was a buddha,
A jina who was named Brahmeśvara.
Brahmeśvara, highest of humans,
Had a lifespan of fourteen thousand years.⁶⁵³ {5}

“After Brahmeśvara there was a buddha,
A jina who was named Agnīśvara.⁶⁵⁴
Agnīśvara, highest of humans,
Had a lifespan of seventy-six thousand years. {6}

“After Agnīśvara there was a buddha,
A jina who was named Brahmānana.
Brahmānana, highest of humans,
Had a lifespan of seven days. {7}

“After Brahmānana there was a buddha,

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