大般若波羅蜜多経 巻十七 (Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra Vol. 17 — Historic Manuscript)

There is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva a great being dedicated to enlightenment not in the Suchness of great compassion, great joy, and great equanimity. There is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva, and also in the Bodhisattva Mahasattva there is the Suchness of great compassion and great joy. Not in the Bodhisattva Mahasattva is the Suchness of great compassion, great joy, and great equanimity. Apart from the Suchness of great loving-kindness, there is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva, not apart from the Suchness of great compassion, great joy, and great equanimity. There is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva who also possesses these. Subhuti the disciple known for understanding emptiness said to the Buddha, "World-Honored One, if great loving-kindness, great compassion, great joy, and great equanimity are ultimately ungraspable and their nature does not exist, how much more so is the case for the Suchness of great loving-kindness, and the Suchness of great compassion, great joy, and great equanimity? Since this Suchness itself does not exist, how can it be said that the Suchness of great loving-kindness is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, that the Suchness of great compassion, great joy, and great equanimity is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, that the Bodhisattva Mahasattva is the Suchness of great loving-kindness, or that the Bodhisattva Mahasattva is the Suchness of great compassion, great joy, and great equanimity? It is also in the Suchness that there is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva, and in the Suchness of great compassion, great joy, and great equanimity that there is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva. In the Bodhisattva Mahasattva there is the Suchness of great loving-kindness, and in the Bodhisattva Mahasattva there is the Suchness of great compassion, great joy, and great equanimity. Apart from the Suchness of great loving-kindness, there is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva, and there is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva in the Suchness of great compassion, great joy, and great equanimity."

Furthermore, Subhuti, by what meaning do you say that the Suchness of the thirty-two marks of a great man is not the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, and the Suchness of the eighty secondary marks is not the Bodhisattva Mahasattva? The Suchness of the thirty-two marks of a great man is not the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, and the Suchness of the eighty secondary marks is not the Bodhisattva Mahasattva. It is not that in the Suchness of the thirty-two marks of a great man there is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva, nor that in the Suchness of the eighty secondary marks there is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva. It is not that in the Bodhisattva Mahasattva there is the Suchness of the thirty-two marks of a great man, nor that in the Bodhisattva Mahasattva there is the Suchness of the eighty secondary marks. It is not apart from the Suchness of the thirty-two marks of a great man that there is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva, nor apart from the Suchness of the eighty secondary marks that there is a Bodhisattva Mahasattva. Also, Subhuti said to the Buddha, "World-Honored One, if the thirty-two marks of a great man and the eighty secondary marks are ultimately ungraspable and their nature does not exist, how much more so for the Suchness of the thirty-two marks of a great man and the Suchness of the eighty secondary marks? Since this Suchness does not exist, how can it be spoken of? The Suchness of the thirty-two marks of a great man is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, and the Suchness of the eighty secondary marks is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, and the Suchness of the thirty-two marks of a great man is the Bodhisattva Mahasattva..."