རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་དེ་དག་ཐམས་ཅད་དེ་ལ་མེད་ཅིང་མི་འབྱུང་ངོ་། །དེ་སྐད་ཅེས་སྨྲས་པ་དང་།
Then, the venerable Śāradvatī­putra said to the venerable Su­bhūti, “Venerable Su­bhūti, should one then know that great bodhisattva beings who abide in these meditative stabilities have been foreordained by the tathāgatas of the past and are being foreordained by the tathāgatas who are alive at present, residing in the world systems of the ten directions, numerous as the sands of the River Ganges?”
Emptiness, Bodhisattvas, Perfection of Wisdom