一切智光明仙人慈心因緣不食肉經 1.23

1.23

The Buddha told Śikha: "You should know now that the white hare king of that time was none other than my present self, Śākyamuni Buddha; the young hare of that time was none other than present Rāhula; the seer who recited the sūtra was none other than the Brahmin's son Maitreya Bodhisattva-mahāsattva in this assembly. Fifty-six hundred million years after my nirvāṇa, he will attain the Buddha path under the dragon flower bodhi tree at the vajra seat in the Flower Forest Park in the realm of the wheel-turning sage king Śaṅkha, and turn the wondrous wheel of the Dharma. The five hundred hares of that time were none other than the five hundred monks including Mahākāśyapa; the two hundred and fifty mountain tree deities of that time were none other than the two hundred and fifty monks including Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana; the thousand kings were none other than the thousand bodhisattvas including Bhadrapāla; and the people of that king's country who were able to hear the sūtra are those disciples who attained the path upon receiving the Dharma during the period from my appearance in the world until that of Ruci."