འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.21

3.21

Bhagavat, we seek to attain the highest, most complete enlightenment, and therefore we follow the superior⁴²⁹ characteristics of this meaning so that we may practice in accordance with the Dharma.”

Then Brahmā, Śakra, and the others⁴³⁰ in that place where the Dharma was taught scattered coral tree flowers of various kinds upon the Bhagavat, so that the entire great ground in the world realms of the trichiliocosm shook. There sounded the music of all the great drums and musical instruments of devas being played. Golden light rays radiated through all the world realms and a sublime sound occurred.⁴³¹

Then Śakra, the lord of devas, said to the Bhagavat, “Bhagavat, all of this is through the power of the blessing of⁴³² The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light, and therefore it protects and benefits in various ways with love and compassion, increases in various ways the good roots of bodhisattvas, and purifies karmic obscurations.”

“It is like that. It is like that,” replied the Bhagavat. “It is as you have said. Why is that? Noble one, I remember that in the past,⁴³³ countless hundreds of thousands of eons ago, at that time, in that time, there appeared in the world a tathāgata arhat samyaksaṃbuddha by the name of Great Precious King Illuminator.⁴³⁴

“The Tathāgata Great Precious King Illuminator appeared in the world at that time so that all devas, humans, Śakra, Brahmā, mendicants, brahmins, and other beings could attain nirvāṇa and bliss.⁴³⁵