Seated Upon the Lion-Throne

"Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva who diligently cultivates this Dharma accomplishes, in due sequence, every bodhisattva practice, until they attain equality with every buddha, and become, throughout boundless worlds, a great Dharma-master, guarding and upholding the true Dharma. Held in mind and guarded by every buddha, they guard, uphold, and retain the vast Dharma-treasury; attaining unobstructed eloquence, they enter deeply into the Dharma-gate. Amid the great assemblies of boundless worlds, in accordance with each different kind of being, they universally manifest their own body, its form and features fully endowed, most supreme and beyond compare, expounding the profound Dharma with skillful, unobstructed eloquence. Because their voice is complete and skillfully distributed, they cause whoever hears it to enter the very gateway of inexhaustible wisdom. Knowing every living being's own mind, conduct, and affliction, they teach the Dharma accordingly; because the very sound of their speech is fully endowed with purity, a single sound, resounding forth, is able to cause everyone to rejoice. Because their body is upright and possessed of great awesome power, wherever they sit within an assembly, none can surpass them. Because they skillfully know every mind, they are able to manifest their body universally. Because they skillfully expound the Dharma, their voice meets no obstruction. Because they have attained sovereign mastery of the mind, they skillfully expound the great Dharma, and nothing can damage or destroy it. Because they have attained fearlessness, their mind knows no timidity or weakness. Because they have sovereign mastery over the Dharma, none can surpass them. Because they have sovereign mastery over wisdom, none can overcome them. Because they have sovereign mastery over the perfection of wisdom, the characteristics of what they teach never contradict one another. Because they have sovereign mastery over eloquence, they teach the Dharma in accordance with what delights, continuing without interruption. Because they have sovereign mastery over dhāraṇī, they resolutely reveal the true nature of every dharma. Because they have sovereign mastery over eloquence, whatever they expound, they are able to open up every kind of gateway of simile. Because they have sovereign mastery over great compassion, they diligently instruct living beings, their mind never slackening or resting. Because they have sovereign mastery over great loving-kindness, they emit a net of light that delights every mind. The bodhisattva, thus seated upon a lofty and vast lion-throne, expounds the great Dharma. Except for the Tathāgata himself, and the great bodhisattvas of supreme vow and wisdom, no other living being is able to surpass them, to see the crown of their head, or to outshine them; and to wish, through some difficult question, to cause them to falter or retreat — there is no such possibility at all."