菩薩瓔珞本業經 2.43

2.43

The Buddha said: "O Son of the Buddha! You have already asked these questions one by one under the Dharma of the seven Buddhas of the past; it is not that you do not know. You ask simply because you wish to bring decisive understanding in this Dharma to this great assembly of one billion four hundred million people. O Son of the Buddha! For this great assembly of one billion four hundred million, I will now expound the definitive, ultimate meaning with my vajra mouth. O Son of the Buddha! In the past, in my assembly there were one hundred and eighty million stainless great beings who, right on their seats, penetrated the source of dharma-nature and suddenly awakened to the non-dual single composite sign of all phenomena. Emerging from the Dharma assembly, they each sat in lands of the ten directions and expounded the great treasury of the bodhisattva's necklace adornments. At that time, the seated great assembly saw one hundred and eighty million World-Honoured Ones named Suddenly Awakened Tathāgatas, each seated on a lion-roar throne of a hundred jewels. At that time, measureless great assemblies also sat in one place, listening to the Tathāgatas of Equal Enlightenment expound the Dharma treasury of necklace adornments. Therefore, there are no gradually awakened World-Honoured Ones; there are only suddenly awakened Tathāgatas. What was expounded by all Buddhas of the three periods of time is no different, and now so am I.