འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.14

5.14

and went to the location of the tigress. He hung his clothes on a branch, and prayed, “I wish to attain the unequaled peace of enlightenment in order to benefit beings. With unchanging, wise compassion, I make a gift of the body, which others find hard to give away. May I attain the faultless, priceless enlightenment that bodhisattvas seek. May I free the three worlds from the terrifying ocean of existence.”

“ ‘Mahāsattva then laid himself down before the tigress, but the tigress did nothing to the loving bodhisattva.

“ ‘The bodhisattva thought, “Oh! She is too weak to do anything!” and got up. With the wisdom of compassion, he sought a weapon. He could not find a weapon anywhere, so he took the branch of a bamboo that was a hundred years old and hard, cut his throat with it, and fell before the tigress.

“ ‘As soon as the bodhisattva fell, the earth shook six times like a ship in the middle of water being shaken by the wind. The sun also was eclipsed, and the beauty of its light rays vanished. There also fell a rain of flowers mixed with divine incense and powders.

“ ‘Then a deva with a marveling mind praised the bodhisattva:

“ ‘ “Excellent wise one, you have in this way pervaded all beings with your compassion.
You have pleased the lords of humans by giving away your body in this way.
You will soon find here, without difficulty and without impediment, a pure peace,
The supreme state of peace that is free of the meaning of birth and death.”

“ ‘The tigress licked³⁸⁹ the bodhisattva’s body soaked in blood, and soon there was nothing left of the body but bones without flesh or blood.

“ ‘Then Mahāpraṇāda, thinking about the earthquake, said to Mahādeva:

“ ‘ “This earth, as far as the oceans and including the oceans, shook;
The sun was without light, and there was a rain of flowers.