འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.18
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 2.18
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2.18
“Bhagavat, so that we may cause this sūtra to continually spread extensively, we will go to the locations of the individuals who possess this sūtra²⁰⁵ and we will benefit²⁰⁶ them.”
“Noble ones, that is excellent, excellent!” said the Bhagavat. “By your causing, with dedicated minds, this sublime king of sūtras to spread,²⁰⁷ this true Dharma will remain in the world for a long time!”
Chapter 4: The Vision in a Dream of Purification Through Regret
²⁰⁸ Then the bodhisattva Ruciraketu was happy and overjoyed to have heard the extremely sublime Dharma directly from the Bhagavat. He contemplated it one-pointedly and returned to his home.²⁰⁹ While asleep that night, in a dream he saw a great golden drum that was shining brightly like the disk of the sun. From those light rays, he saw in the ten directions countless buddhas seated upon beryl thrones at the foot of precious trees, encircled by assemblies of many hundreds of thousands, and they were teaching the Dharma.
A brahmin beat that drum, from which came a loud sound; from that sound were taught sublime Dharma verses of the confession of bad actions, which Ruciraketu heard. He kept the entirety of it in his mind and remained in one-pointed mindfulness.
At dawn, he left the city of Rājagṛha. Accompanied by an entourage numbering countless hundreds of thousands, and carrying objects for offering,²¹⁰ he went to Vulture Peak Mountain and came into the presence of the Bhagavat. He bowed down to the feet of the Bhagavat and spread out flowers and perfume.²¹¹ He then circumambulated the Bhagavat three times, keeping him to his right, and sat down to one side.