法苑珠林 11.53

11.53

The answer states: This applies only to the emanations of non-Buddhists and śrāvakas. In the case of the Buddha's emanations, the power of his immeasurable samādhis is inconceivable. Therefore, when the Buddha himself speaks, immeasurable thousands of myriads of koṭis of emanation Buddhas also speak simultaneously. Furthermore, regarding non-Buddhists and śrāvakas, an emanation cannot produce another emanation. But with the Buddha, the World-Honoured One, an emanation can in turn produce another emanation. Hence, after the decease of those non-Buddhists and śrāvakas, they cannot leave emanations behind; whereas after the Buddha's nirvāṇa, he can leave emanations behind, no different from the Buddha himself. As for the statement in the Abhidharma that 'two minds cannot exist simultaneously,' it is also thus with the Buddha now: when an emanation speaks, it also does not possess a mind of its own; it is the Buddha's mind that thinks of the emanation, wishing to make the emanation speak, and thereupon they all speak.