Summary

1.     The hundreds of thousands of bodhisattvas approached the Buddha Suvarṇaratnākaracchatrakūṭa (who is Ruciraketu, the bodhisattva who received his prophecy earlier) and paid homage to him with a verse:

a.     It emphasises the goldness of the Buddha’s body.

b.     His great marks.

c.     His thundering voice.

d.     His merits.

e.     His knowledge.

f.      His compassion and giving of blessings.

g.     His excellence in expositing the Dharma.

h.     How difficult it is to expound his virtues.

i.      Whatever merit comes from this praise, by it may being attain awakening.

2.     Then Ruciraketu arose and place his knee on the ground in reverence to the Buddha and praised him:

a.     His brightness and splendid appearance, as a thousand suns.

b.     How he lights up worlds.

c.     How wonderful he is to behold.

d.     How he has the virtues such as the seven limbs of awakening.

e.     How he brings joy and is a mine of blessings, and so forth.

3.     Then the goddess Bodhisattvasamuccayā praised the Buddha:

a.     He has a pure realisation of the Dharma and existence.

b.     How endless is his glory.

c.     How he entered the calm city with his flawless meditation and entered the sphere of the victorious Buddha.

d.     How all beings are empty, including śrāvakas, the dwellings of the best of the two-footed (i.e. Buddhas), and a self is not found at all.

e.     How she is constantly anxious for sight of the Buddha and constantly resolves to see the Buddha-sun.

f.      She prays to be granted the Buddha’s form.

g.     How all beings are like a dream, resembling a mirage or the moon in water, empty of the Buddha.

h.     How the sphere of the Buddha is completely wonderful and impossible for any being to know up to Pratyekabuddhas.

4.     The Buddha arose and praised the goddess.

5.     Then the entire assembly rejoiced in the Buddha’s speech.