The Changeless Nature

Buddha-Qualities 11324. The supreme of beings has beautiful eyes, like blue lotuses:25. His eyelashes are as handsome as an ox's.26. With its immaculate white urna hair 10 , his face is handsome tobehold.27. His head is adorned with a mound.28. His skin is pure and fine.29. His skin is golden-hued.30. The hairs on his body are exceedingly fine and soft, one in eachpore, curling to the right and upwards.31. His hair is impeccable and like a deep-blue gem.32. As well-rounded as a perfect nyagrodha tree, the ever-good one,the incomparable great sage, has the strength of Narayana in hisfirm body.These thirty-two marks are ablaze with light and completely beyondthe grasp of concept. Lord Buddha, our teacher, has taught them asbeing the marks of a lord of men.the example for the 32 marksJust as the form of the autumn moon in a cloudless sky is seen inthe azure waters of a lake, so also are the form-kayas of the allembracingseen by all the buddhas' sons in the perfect buddha mandala113. Scriptural SourceOne should know that these sixty-four qualities and their respectivecause here follow their order of presentation in the Jewel Discourse(Ratna Sutra) 12 .4. Recapitulation of the Examples4 A. GENERAL ATTRIBUTION OF EXAMPLESSince the ten powers are invulnerable, the four fearlessnessesare not disheartened, the eighteen distinctive qualities are peerless andthe two form kayas are motionless 13 , they are compared respectivelyto a vajra, a lion, space and the clear moon in water.