The King's Own Lion-Throne

"Child of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives seats, they may give the very lion-throne on which they themselves sit. That throne is lofty, vast, uniquely wondrous and excellent, its feet made of lapis lazuli, wrought in gold filigree, spread with soft, fine robes; it is set up with jeweled banners, perfumed with every kind of wondrous fragrance, adorned with immeasurable, various jeweled ornaments; covered above with a golden net, jeweled bells swaying in the wind and giving forth wondrous sounds; rare treasures numbering in the tens of thousands fill and adorn it all around, gazed upon together by every minister and subject. The great anointed king dwells alone upon it, proclaiming the transformation of the Dharma, honored and upheld by every land. That king further adorns his own body with wondrous jewels. Namely: the universally luminous jewel, the indra-blue jewel, the great indra-blue jewel, the supreme-treasury maṇi-jewel — bright and pure as the sun, cool as the moon, scattered densely all around like a multitude of stars, their wondrous adornment foremost and incomparable; the ocean's own rare and wondrous jewel, the ocean's own firm banner-jewel, their strange patterns and unusual forms adorned in every way, most honored and most supreme among the great assembly. Jambū-river gold and stainless jeweled silk crown his head, and he enjoys the status of the anointed one, reigning as king over Jambudvīpa, fully endowed with immeasurable great and awesome virtue; taking loving-kindness as his very ruler, he subdues every enemy, and there is no decree of his that is not honored and obeyed. At that time, the wheel-turning king, with hundreds of thousands of koṭis of such immeasurable, countless jeweled and adorned thrones as these, gives them to the Tathāgata, the foremost field of merit, and to every bodhisattva, every true good spiritual friend, the treasure of the worthy and noble saṃgha, teachers of the Dharma, parents and kin, śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and those who have set forth on the bodhisattva vehicle, or to a Tathāgata's own stūpa, and even to every poor and destitute person; according with whatever they need, he gives it to them entirely.