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The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Prophecy of Kṣemavatī”
འཕགས་པ་བདེ་ལྡན་མ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Āryakṣemavatīvyākaraṇanāmamahāyānasūtra
差摩婆帝授記經
’phags pa bde ldan ma lung bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
Translator: Translated by the Subhashita Translation Groupunder the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
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Summary
On their morning alms round, the Buddha and Maitreya meet Queen Kṣemavatī who is bedecked in all her royal jewelry. When the Buddha asks her about the source of such fine jewelry, referring to it metaphorically as fruit, Queen Kṣemavatī explains that her worldly position is the fruit of the tree of her previous good deeds. The remainder of the sūtra describes how one’s good actions can eventually lead to buddhahood, and it concludes with a prophecy of the queen’s future awakening.