Entirely Equal
The bodhisattva's descent from Tuṣita Heaven arrives surrounded by a host the text insists is exactly like him in every quality it can name — vows, practices, wisdom, even his own Dharma-body and form-body — before the whole company comes at last to enter Māyā.
Entirely Equal
The descent from Tuṣita Heaven is not a solitary event — it arrives with a company the text goes out of its way to say is indistinguishable from the one descending.
爾時，菩薩從兜率天將降神時，有十佛剎微塵數諸菩薩，皆與菩薩同願、同行、同善根、同莊嚴、同解脫、同智慧，諸地、諸力、法身、色身，乃至普賢神通行願，悉皆同等，如是菩薩前後圍遶；又有八萬諸龍王等、一切世主，乘其宮殿，俱來供養。菩薩爾時，以神通力，與諸菩薩普現一切兜率天宮；一一宮中，悉現十方一切世界閻浮提內受生影像，方便教化無量眾生，令諸菩薩離諸懈怠無所執著。又以神力，放大光明，普照世間，破諸黑闇，滅諸苦惱；令諸眾生，皆識宿世所有業行，永出惡道。又為救護一切眾生，普現其前，作諸神變。現如是等諸奇特事，與眷屬俱，來入我身。
At that time, when the bodhisattva was about to descend in spirit from Tuṣita Heaven, there were bodhisattvas as numerous as the fine motes of dust in ten buddha-lands, every one of them sharing the very same vows, the very same practices, the very same wholesome roots, the very same adornments, the very same liberation, and the very same wisdom as the bodhisattva — and, down even to their every ground, every power, their Dharma-body and form-body, and Samantabhadra's own spiritual powers, practices, and vows, every one of them was entirely equal. Bodhisattvas such as these surrounded him before and behind; and moreover, eighty thousand nāga kings and every lord of the world, riding upon their own palaces, all came together to make offerings. The bodhisattva, at that time, through his own spiritual power, together with every bodhisattva, universally manifested throughout every palace of Tuṣita Heaven; and within each and every palace, he manifested entirely the reflected images of his own birth within the Jambudvīpa of every world throughout the ten directions, teaching and transforming measureless beings through skillful means, causing every bodhisattva to leave behind every laziness and be attached to nothing at all. Moreover, through his own spiritual power, he released a great light, universally illumining the world, breaking apart every darkness, and extinguishing every suffering and affliction, causing every being to recognize entirely their own past-life deeds and karma, and forever escape the evil destinies. And, in order to rescue and protect every being, he universally manifested before them, performing every kind of spiritual transformation. Having manifested wonders such as these, he, together with his own retinue, came to enter my body.
皆與菩薩同願、同行、同善根、同莊嚴、同解脫、同智慧⋯悉皆同等 — every one of them sharing the very same vows, the very same practices, the very same wholesome roots, the very same adornments, the very same liberation, and the very same wisdom as the bodhisattva⋯every one of them was entirely equal. Ten buddha-lands' worth of dust-mote bodhisattvas accompany this one, and the text does not distinguish him from them by even a single quality it names — not his vows, not his wisdom, not even his own form-body. The moment usually told as one being's singular descent arrives here surrounded by others the text insists are exactly like him in every respect it can list.
Part 1241 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-six. Part 1242 follows the bodhisattva and his retinue into Māyā's own body, where they move through worlds as easily as a single step.