法苑珠林 13.14

13.14

又觀佛三昧經云。昔過去久遠無量世時。有佛出世。號寶威德上王。時有比丘。與九弟子往詣佛塔。禮拜佛像。有見一寶像。嚴顯可觀。禮已諦視說偈讚歎。後時命終。悉生東方寶威德上王佛國。大蓮華中結跏趺坐忽然化生。從此已後常得值佛。於諸佛所。淨修梵行。得念佛三昧海。得三昧已佛為授記。於十方面各得成佛。東方善德佛者。則彼師是。其九弟子者作九方佛。謂東南方。無優德佛。南方栴檀德佛。西南方寶施佛。西方無量明佛。西北方華德佛。北方相德佛。東北方三乘行佛。上方廣眾德佛。下方明德佛。如是十佛由因過去禮塔觀像一偈讚歎。今於十方各得成佛。

The Guanfo sanmei jing also states: "In the remote past, immeasurable ages ago, a Buddha appeared in the world named Ratnatejas-agrarāja. At that time, there was a bhikṣu who went with nine disciples to a Buddha stūpa to pay homage to a Buddha image. They saw a jeweled image, majestic, prominent, and lovely to behold. Having prostrated, they gazed attentively at it and spoke verses of praise. Afterwards, when their lives ended, they were all reborn in the eastern Buddha-land of Ratnatejas-agrarāja. Sitting cross-legged inside a great lotus flower, they were suddenly born by transformation. From that time onward, they constantly met Buddhas, purely cultivated the noble conduct in the presence of those Buddhas, and attained the ocean-like samādhi of recollecting the Buddha. Having attained the samādhi, the Buddhas bestowed predictions upon them, and they each attained buddhahood in the ten directions. The Buddha Bhadraśrī of the east was that master; his nine disciples became the Buddhas of the nine directions: namely, in the south-east, the Buddha Aśokaśrī; in the south, the Buddha Candanaśrī; in the south-west, the Buddha Ratnaprada; in the west, the Buddha Amitaprabha; in the north-west, the Buddha Kusumaprabha; in the north, the Buddha Lakṣaṇaśrī; in the north-east, the Buddha Triyānacarya; in the nadir, the Buddha Prabhāśrī; in the zenith, the Buddha Vipulagaṇaśrī. These ten Buddhas, through the past cause of paying homage at a stūpa, viewing an image, and praising it with a single verse, have now each attained buddhahood in the ten directions."