What is The Prediction as defined by the Mahayana tradition?

Please see this section taken from the wiki page titled Boddhisattva which might help you answer the question: > ...what early Mahayana sutras like the Aṣṭa do is to help individuals > determine if they have already received **a prediction** in a past life, > or if they are close to this point. The Aṣṭa provides a variety of > methods, including forms of ritual or divination, methods dealing with > dreams and various tests, especially tests based on one's reaction to > the hearing of the content in the Aṣṭasāhasrikā itself. The text > states that encountering and accepting its teachings mean one is close > to being given **a prediction** and that if one does not "shrink back, > cower or despair" from the text, but "firmly believes it", one is > irreversible. Many other Mahayana sutras such as the Akṣobhyavyūha and > the Śūraṃgamasamādhi Sūtra present textual approaches to determine > one's status as an advanced bodhisattva. These mainly consist in one's > attitude towards listening to, believing, preaching, proclaiming, > copying or memorizing and reciting the sutra. According to Drewes, > this claim that merely having faith in Mahāyāna sūtras meant that one > was an advanced bodhisattva, was a departure from previous Nikaya > views about bodhisattvas. It created new groups of Buddhists who > accepted each other's bodhisattva status. Also, is the Śūraṃgamasamādhi Sūtra the same as Leng Yen Ching? And, is there an English translation of the Akṣobhyavyūha sutra?