Endowed with a Thousand Ten Thousand Glowing Marks
Endowed with a Thousand Ten Thousand Glowing Marks
具足千万光相如来 (Skt Rashmi-shatasahasra-paripurna-dhvaja; Jpn Gusoku-semmankoso-nyorai)
The Thus Come One Endowed with a Thousand Ten Thousand Glowing Marks. The name that Yashodhara, formerly the wife of Shakyamuni and mother of Rahula, will assume when she becomes a Buddha, according to the "Encouraging Devotion" (thirteenth) chapter of the Lotus Sutra. The chapter reads: "The Buddha said to Yashodhara, 'In future ages, amid the Law of hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, millions of Buddhas, you will practice the deeds of a bodhisattva, will be a great teacher of the Law, and will gradually fulfill the Buddha way. Then in a good land you will become a Buddha named Endowed with a Thousand Ten Thousand Glowing Marks.'"
