Toh 188
The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Prophecy of Dīpaṅkara”
འཕགས་པ་མར་མེ་མཛད་ཀྱིས་ལུང་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Āryadīpaṅkaravyākaraṇanāmamahāyānasūtra
’phags pa mar me mdzad kyis lung bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
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Summary
In The Prophecy of Dīpaṅkara, the Buddha narrates the famous story of how, in a former life as a brahmin ascetic many eons ago, he first received the prophecy of his future awakening. This story of the young brahmin ascetic Megha’s encounter with the former Buddha Dīpaṅkara is here told to illustrate for Ānanda the importance of not being complacent about one’s roots of virtue.