འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.12
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 4.12
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4.12
“Noble one, the appearance of a sign that is the omen⁵²⁵ for the eighth bodhisattva bhūmi⁵²⁶ is like this: all bodhisattvas see that to their right and left they are being guarded by lions, the kings of beasts, and an entire multitude of wild beasts are frightened and terrified of them.
“Noble one, the appearance of a sign that is the omen⁵²⁷ for the ninth bodhisattva bhūmi⁵²⁸ is like this: all bodhisattvas see cakravartins encircled by retinues numbering many hundreds of thousands who are making offerings to them, and they are adorned by a variety of precious white parasols above their heads.
“Noble one, the appearance of a sign that is the omen⁵²⁹ for the tenth bodhisattva bhūmi⁵³⁰ is like this: all bodhisattvas see a tathāgata with a shining golden body, with pure, immeasurable light rays, every excellence, and encircled by countless hundreds of thousands of Brahmā kings who are honoring him and making offerings to him, so that he turns the extremely excellent wheel of the unsurpassable Dharma.
“Noble one, why is the first bhūmi called Perfect Joy? It is like this: first, a mind that transcends the world, which had never been previously attained, is attained at this time, and then there is the great accomplishment that is what had been prayed for, and therefore a perfect joy arises; that is why the first bhūmi is called Perfect Joy.
“The second bhūmi is called Stainless because it is completely purified of all extremely subtle stains and of errors in conduct.