further reflect as follows: “Whose image is this? This is an image of Śākyamuni Buddha in the past. Though I see the statue of the Buddha now, in fact the statue has not come here, nor have I gone there. By mental imagination I saw the past Buddha. When his spirit descended [from Tuṣita Heaven], heaven and the earth quaked. He had the thirty-two major marks of a great person, [namely]:
- Flat soles
- Wheels with a thousand spokes on the soles
- Beautifully long toes
- Wide heels
- Webs between the toes and fingers
- Beautifully high and flat insteps
- Calves like those of an antelope
- Hands reaching below the knees while standing upright
- Hidden sexual organ
- Body like a banyan tree
- Each hair growing from each pore
- Hair growing upwards and curling clockwise
- Body color superior to that of fine gold
- Rays from the body reaching three yards
- Beautifully thin skin
- Protuberances on the seven spots [of the body]
- Beautifully flat armpits
- Upper body like that of a lion
- Beautifully large and upright body
- Round shoulders
- Forty teeth
- White and even teeth, without gaps and deeply rooted
- Four big white cuspids
- Square jaw like that of a lion
- [Tongue with which to] enjoy the supreme flavors
- Large, wide, long, and thin tongue
- Profound voice like that of Brahmā
- Voice like that of an Indian cuckoo
- Dark-blue eyes
- Eyelashes like that of an ox king
- Topknot made of flesh with bones
- White and beautifully long tuft of hair, curling clockwise, between the brows.”