《Toh 47 (Kangyur)》
CBETA 84K-toh47
Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas. Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was staying at Vulture Peak in Rājagṛha together with a great monastic assembly of forty-two thousand monks, as well as eighty-four thousand bodhisattvas of great courage, who were well known on account of their fame, a great many of whom had come from other buddha domains. All of them had attained the state of acceptance. “Acceptance” (bzod pa, kṣānti) likely refers here to anutpattikadharmakṣānti, “acceptance of the fact that things do not arise,” which is said to constitute a definitive understanding of the emptiness of all phenomena. Possibly the same expression is used to describe Vimalakīrti in the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa, section 2.1, the Sanskrit for which reads pratilabdhakṣāntika. The Tibetan translation here and there is identical: bzod pa thob pa. They could not be turned back. They were limited to only one more life. They had acquired a powerful memory and the formulas that support it. They had acquired states of meditative concentration. Their inspired eloquence was without impediment. They were adept at traveling to limitless buddha domains throughout the ten directions. They had made…
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