འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.49
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (2) intro.49
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intro.49
The Kauṇḍinya brahmin Vyākaraṇa asks to be given a relic when the Buddha passes away so that he might make offerings to it. A young man says to the Kauṇḍinya brahmin that the Buddha will not pass away and there will never be relics. The Kauṇḍinya brahmin states that he knew this but made his request so that this truth would be revealed, and that the appearance of passing away and leaving relics is simply a skillful method to benefit beings.