ཇི་སྲིད་དུ་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་གནས་པའི་བར་སྐབས་དེར་དགེ་བའི་རྩ་བ་གང་དག་ཡིན་པ་དང་།
The venerable Śāradvatī­putra replied to Śakra, mighty lord of the gods, “Kauśika, great bodhisattva beings who have acquired the transcendent perfection of wisdom, owing to their skillful means, have concentrated and subsumed the roots of virtue possessed by the lord buddhas of the past, future, and present, commencing from when they first began to set their mind on enlightenment and lasting as long as the sacred doctrine itself endures, as well as the roots of virtue possessed by the Lord Buddha, along with his monastic community of śrāvakas, and those of the pratyekabuddhas, and the roots of virtue possessed by all other sentient beings apart from them, who are engaged in the Great Vehicle.
Emptiness, Bodhisattvas, Perfection of Wisdom