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Translated by the Khotanese Tripiṭaka Master Śīladharma at the Longxing Temple Monastery in Beiting Beiting was an administrative center in the northern regions of the Tang Dynasty, near modern-day Jimsar, Xinjiang.
Thus have I heard: At one time, the Buddha was on the peak of the Great Maṇi Vajra Vajra refers to a diamond or adamantine substance, symbolizing indestructibility. Jewel Mountain, together with a great assembly of Bodhisattvas Beings dedicated to achieving enlightenment for the sake of all others.. At that time, the World-Honored One addressed the Bodhisattva Vajramaṇi, saying:
"Son of the Buddha, if there are Bodhisattvas who seek Great Awakening original: "Bodhi", desiring to rescue and protect all sentient beings; who have already received the training in the Bodhisattva precepts; who have already given rise to the Great Mind of Awakening original: "Bodhicitta"; who possess great compassion and constantly desire to uphold all the virtues of the Tathāgatas A title for a Buddha, meaning 'One who has thus come.'; who desire to extensively accumulate the provisions original: "liang" (粮), literally 'grain' or 'rations,' referring to the spiritual merits required for the journey to Buddhahood. of merit and virtue of all Great Bodhisattvas; who desire to realize the Wisdom of the Buddha; who desire to lead themselves into meditative concentration original: "samādhi" and the power of memory original: "dhāraṇī"; all the gates of liberation and the thirty-two kinds of? playful mastery of spiritual powers; who desire to make the very void of space into a great treasury; and who desire to make their own hands like wish-fulfilling jewels..."