བུ་མོས་སྨྲས་པ། བཙུན་པ་རབ་འབྱོར་དེ་བས་ན་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ནི་རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་མ་སྐྱེས་པའོ། །རབ་འབྱོར་གྱིས་སྨྲས་པ།
Subhūti asked, “Girl, if all phenomena are inherently unproduced, why has the Bhagavān taught that tathāgatas as numerous as the grains of sand along the river Ganges have already gone, that tathāgatas as numerous as the grains of sand along the river Ganges are still to come, and that tathāgatas as numerous as the grains of sand along the river Ganges are currently living?”
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