Lion's Roar said: "Oh, World Honored One! Why are there the retrogressing and the non-retrogressing Bodhisattvas?"
“Oh, good man! If any Bodhisattva comes to know the causal relations of the 32 Marks of Perfection of the Tathagata, we say non- retrogressive. He is the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva, the non-upside-down, and someone who pities for all beings. He is someone superior to Sravakas and Pratyekabuddhas, and someone called 'Avaivartika'.
Oh, good man! The Bodhisattva-Mahasattva is (1) immovable in his upholding of the precepts, in (2) his mind of giving, and it is like Mount Sumeru in (3) abiding in the true word. Because of this, it gets the flat soles of the feet [one of 80 minor characteristics of excellence].”
Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 34, on Bodhisattva Lion's Roar 2.
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