རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ་ཚེའི་ཚད་མེད་པས། །དེ་ཡི་གྲངས་ནི་ཤེས་མི་ནུས། །
Then the bodhisattva Ruciraketu, having heard from those four tathāgatas the teaching on the lifespan of the Bhagavat Śākyamuni, asked those bhagavats, “Why is it that the Bhagavat Śākyamuni, the Tathāgata, manifests such a short lifespan?”
Light, Reality, Assembly