‘And again, O Ananda, in that Buddha country, those who are Sravakas are possessed of the light of a fathom, and those who are Bodhisattvas are possessed of the light of a hundred thousand kotis of yoanas; barring always the two Bodhisattvas, by whose light that world is everywhere shining with eternal splendour.
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English · F. Max Müller
English · F. Max Müller
Then the blessed Ananda said this to the Bhagavat: ‘What are the names, O Bhagavat, of those two noble-minded Bodhisattvas’
English · F. Max Müller
The Bhagavat said: ‘One of them, O Ananda, is the noble-minded Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, and the second is Mahâsthamaprépta by name. And, O Ananda, these two were born there, having left this Buddha country here’.