菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 7.43

7.43

'At that time, the gandharva king, hearing the words of the earth deity who had emerged, had his mind opened in understanding and threw his five limbs to the ground: "You are my teacher, transforming my childish ignorance. Now, foolish and deluded, I did not distinguish the genuine from the false. Accept my repentance for being as though blind and foolish." At that time, the earth deity immediately emerged from the earth, manifesting the golden body of a Buddha with the thirty-two marks and radiating great light. By supernatural power he brought the gandharva king to the contemplation in the womb, without any of the assembly being aware of it. The Buddha told all those who had assembled: "For countless asaṃkhyeya kalpas, I have been able to become large or small, entering into the subtle without hindrance. Sometimes in the heavens for kalpas I have taught and transformed; sometimes among humans I have suffered on their behalf; sometimes among animals, hungry ghosts, and hells, dividing my body to teach and transform, entering everywhere." Then the gandharva king and his retinue of seventy-two billion immediately generated the unexcelled [aspiration] and abided in the stage of non-retrogression.'