ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ནི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཐོགས་པ་མེད་པ་སྟེ། དེ་བས་ཀྱང་ལྷག་པར་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་དོ། ། རླུང་གི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ཡོངས་སུ་ཁྱབ་པས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་ཡོངས་སུ་ཁྱབ་བོ། །ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་སྟེང་གི་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་ནད་ལྟར་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་མེད་པ་ཡང་ཡོད་དོ། ། དེ་ན་རང་སངས་རྒྱས་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་སྟོང་ཡོད་དེ། དེ་དག་ལ་སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་དགེ་བའི་རྩ་བསྐྱེད་དོ། །
“Śāriputra, such figures and reckonings characterize the threefold thousand great thousand worlds, and it is here that the tathāgata, arhat, fully accomplished buddha by the name of Mahāskandha presently resides. This is where he dwells and where he is active. He has a lifespan of ten million years. He is accompanied by a great assembly of śrāvakas consisting of three hundred million billion great śrāvakas who are all arhats, who have eliminated the defilements, who are free from vices, who are powerful, and who have reached the very highest level of complete mastery of the mind. He is accompanied by an assembly of a billion great bodhisatvas, great beings, who are accomplished in The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva, who have a thorough grasp of its meaning, who possess a great ocean of learning and can express the Dharma, who dwell in the state of emptiness, who dwell in the state of freedom from attributes, and who dwell in the state of freedom from aspirations. After his final passing, the true Dharma will last for a thousand years: ‘One thousand years after my final passing, it, too, will finally pass away.’ His relics will be distributed: ‘As I now pass into final nirvāṇa, my relics are to be distributed.’
Light, Reality, Assembly