འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.2

3.2

they saw the buddhas.

At that time, Śakra, his entire entourage of devas, and the Ganges goddess and her large retinue, having seen those wondrous light rays,³¹⁴ all came into the presence of the Bhagavat. They circled the Bhagavat three times, keeping him to their right,³¹⁵ and then sat in their various places.

Then Śakra, the lord of devas,³¹⁶ through the power of the blessing of the Bhagavat, rose from his seat and, with his upper robe over one shoulder, knelt on his right knee, placed his palms together in homage toward the Bhagavat, and asked the Bhagavat, “Bhagavat, how should a noble son or noble daughter who seeks the highest, most complete enlightenment, and who practices the Mahāyāna, care for beings who are in error?³¹⁷ How can they purify through confession the sinfulness of the obscuration of karma that they have created in the past?”

The Bhagavat said to Śakra, the lord of devas, “Noble one, it is excellent, excellent that today, because of your compassion for the entire world, you have meditated on countless, innumerable beings and wish to enable them to attain the bliss of completely pure liberation and to benefit them.³¹⁸

“A being³¹⁹ who, through the power of the obscuration from karma, has performed bad actions should develop dedicated diligence,³²⁰ and in the six periods of the day and night, with their upper robe over one shoulder, they should kneel on their right knee, respectfully place their palms together, and with their minds focused one-pointedly should themselves voice these words:

“ ‘At this present time, in the ten directions there reside buddha bhagavats who have attained the highest, most complete enlightenment and turn the sublime wheel of the Dharma,