In general, it is the opinion of the lower vehicles that one such as this teacher of ours [Shakyamuni Buddha], after accumulating the provisions [of merit and pristine cognition] conducive to liberation over three “countless” aeons as an ordinary person, in his final existence subjugated Mara at dusk in Vajrasana, the Point of Enlightenment. Developing the path of connection in his mind at midnight by means of the actual foundation of the four meditative concentrations, he manifested the six transcendental perfections at the very moment when the pale light of dawn appeared, and attained buddhahood endowed with the bodies of reality and form. Apart from his promulgation of the doctrinal wheel to [the five noble companions] – from Ajñatakaundinya to Bhadrika and so forth – [these lower vehicles] do not admit the complete definitive structure of [the Teacher’s] three buddha-bodies.