ཐམས་ཅད་འབྱུང་དང་འཇིགས་པ་རབ་སྤངས་ནས། །སངས་རྒྱས་བསྟན་པ་མཛེས་པར་བྱེད་པར་འགྱུར། །
{29} Lastly, the Bhagavān said to that complete saṅgha of bhikṣus, “Bhikṣus, I declare to you, I make it known to you, that this śrāvaka of mine, the sthavira Mahā­maudgalyāyana, will serve twenty-eight thousand buddhas, will venerate them, honor them, make offerings to them, praise them, and respect them.
Light, Reality, Assembly