འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 11

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we do not see anyone within the world with its devas, with its Māra, with its Brahmā, with its many beings who are mendicants and brahmins, and with its devas, humans, and asuras who has the ability to know the Bhagavat Tathāgata Śākyamuni’s lifespan to its future limit.”

As soon as those buddha bhagavats described the Tathāgata’s lifespan, at that moment, through the power of the buddhas, the devas in the desire realm, the devas in the form realm, the nāgas, the yakṣas, the gandharvas, the asuras, the garuḍas, the kinnaras, the mahoragas, and the many hundreds of thousands of quintillions of assembled bodhisattvas arrived in the house of the bodhisattva Ruciraketu.

Those tathāgatas then recited verses that taught in brief the length of the lifespan of the Bhagavat Śākyamuni to that complete assembly:

“The drops of water in all
The oceans can be calculated,
But no one can calculate
The lifespan of Śākyamuni.

“If all Sumerus⁵⁸ were reduced to atoms,
Their number could be calculated,⁵⁹
But no one can calculate
The lifespan of Śākyamuni.

“Someone might calculate
The number of atoms in the earth,
But no one can calculate
The entire lifespan of the Jina.

“Someone might calculate
The extent of space,
But no one can calculate
The lifespan of Śākyamuni.

“One cannot reach a number
By saying that the perfect Buddha
Will remain for this number of eons,
Or for a hundred million eons,

“This is because of two causes
And because of two conditions:⁶⁰
He has forsaken violence toward others,
And he has given food numerous times.