དེའི་ཚེ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་བྱམས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་འཁོར་དེ་ཉིད་དུ་འདུས་པར་གྱུར་ཏེ་འདུག་གོ། །
The bodhisattva mahāsattva Maitreya rose from his seat, draped his upper robe over one shoulder, knelt on his right knee, and with palms joined bowed to the Bhagavān and said, “With permission, I would like to ask the blessed, thus-gone, worthy, perfect Buddha some questions.”
Perfection of wisdom, bodhisattva great beings, practice