法苑珠林 26.20

26.20

佛告大王。彼獼猴者。雖是畜生。一見羅漢受持三歸及以五戒。緣前功德超越千劫極重惡業。得生天上值遇一生補處菩薩。從是已後值佛無數。淨修梵行具六波羅蜜。住不退地。於最後身次彌勒後當成阿耨菩提。佛號師子月如來。

The Buddha told the great king: 'Though that monkey was an animal, upon once seeing the arhat he received and upheld the three refuges and the five precepts. By virtue of this former merit, he bypassed a thousand kalpas of extremely heavy evil karma, was born in heaven, and met a bodhisattva in his last bodily existence before buddhahood. From then on, he met countless Buddhas, purely cultivated the holy life, fulfilled the six pāramitās, and dwelt on the stage of non-retrogression. In his final body, subsequent to Maitreya, he will attain anuttarasaṃbodhi; his Buddha title will be Siṃhacandra Tathāgata.'