འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.61
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (2) intro.61
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intro.61
Then the assembly promises to promulgate this sūtra, and Śakra states that this sūtra can bring an end to the obscurations of karma. In response, the Buddha describes a buddha in the distant past named Great Mass of Light and a woman named Gaṅgadevī who received this very teaching from Great Mass of Light. Through her dedication to it, she was subsequently always reborn as a man until she became a buddha by the name of Ratnārci. Ratnārci teaches in a realm a vast distance away in the east, in the present time. Any woman who hears the name of this buddha will no longer be reborn as a woman.