[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa) › [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མཆོག་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo) › [The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light (1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000) › 5.1 # འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.1 The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 5.1 - **Language:** English ### [5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.5.1) Chapter 7: A Praise Using the Analogy of a Lotus ⁵⁹⁵ Then the Bhagavat said to the virtuous goddess who is the goddess of the Bodhi tree,⁵⁹⁶ “Now know this, Goddess Śrī,⁵⁹⁷ you should listen well and remember this praise of the buddhas and purification through regret that came as a loud sound from a golden drum that was seen in the bodhisattva’s⁵⁹⁸ dream at night.⁵⁹⁹ “In the past, there was a king by the name of Lord of Golden Nāgas,⁶⁰⁰ who always praised and extolled the buddhas in the ten directions and three times as being like a red lotus.” He then recited these verses of praise to the multitude: “ ‘Those jinas who have appeared in the past, And the jinas present in the ten directions,⁶⁰¹ I pay homage to all those jinas⁶⁰² And I praise all those jinas.⁶⁰³ “ ‘A lord of munis is peaceful, totally peaceful, and pure. His body shines with a golden color.⁶⁰⁴ A buddha’s voice is the most melodious of all voices,⁶⁰⁵ Speech that resounds like the voice of Brahmā. “ ‘He has hair⁶⁰⁶ like a bee, a peacock, and ink,⁶⁰⁷ With blue curls, like the blue jaybird. His teeth are as white as snow or a conch⁶⁰⁸ And always shining as if adorned by gold.⁶⁰⁹ “ ‘His eyes are blue, wide, and perfectly stainless; They are like blue lotuses in blossom. His broad, excellent tongue is the color of a red lotus— It is like a lotus, a shining lotus blossom.⁶¹⁰ “ ‘Between the eyebrows, the ūrṇā hair is the color of a conch or lotus root.⁶¹¹ It curls to the right and is the color of a white beryl. It is like a crescent moon, a sliver of the moon. The protector Muni’s body shines like a carpenter bee.⁶¹² “ ‘His face has a bright and prominent nose That is smooth, excellent, and like a golden staff— - [Previous: 4.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.4.24) - [Next: 5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.5.2) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.5) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མཆོག་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo.5.1) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.5.1) · Pramāṇa