[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Tibetan canon (Kangyur & Tengyur)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet) › [Kangyur (translated words of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur) › [General sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde) › [འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བྱམས་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་གནམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་བླངས་པའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199) › [The Sutra on Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000) › 1 # འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆབ་སམས་དཔའ་བྱམས་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་གནམ་ད་སྐྱ་བ་བླངས་པའ་མད 1 The Sūtra on Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy 1 - **Language:** English ### [1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.1) Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas. Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was staying in Śrāvastī, in Prince Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍada’s Park, along with a great congregation of monks and many bodhisattva great beings.⁹ Then, during the first watch of the night, golden light rays emerged from the Blessed One’s body¹⁰ and circled Jeta’s Grove seven times. The light made contact with¹¹ the householder Sudatta and others;¹² then a golden light filled the sky like clouds, raining down golden flowers all over Śrāvastī.¹³ Amidst this golden light appeared an immeasurable number of hundreds of thousands of emanated thus-gone ones. They spoke in unison about the one thousand bodhisattvas to awaken in this eon, from the awakening firstly of Krakucchanda until the awakening finally of Roca. After they had spoken, the light of the thus-gone ones roused an entire retinue, which gathered around them like cloud banks. The retinue consisted of Venerable Ājñāta­kauṇḍinya, who arose from absorption, with a retinue of two hundred fifty monks; Venerable Mahākāśyapa, with a retinue of two hundred fifty monks; Venerable Maudgalyāyana, with a retinue of two hundred fifty monks; Venerable Śāriputra, with a retinue of two hundred fifty monks; one thousand fully ordained nuns including Mahāprajāpatī;¹⁴ three thousand laymen including the householder Sudatta;¹⁵ two thousand laywomen including Viśākhā;¹⁶ the sixteen bodhisattvas of the Fortunate Eon including Samantabhadra;¹⁷ and five hundred bodhisattvas including the Dharma prince Mañjuśrī;¹⁸ as well as gods, nāgas, - [Previous: intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.intro.6) - [Next: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.2) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བྱམས་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་གནམ་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་བླངས་པའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199.1) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.199~en-84000.1) · Pramāṇa