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THE LARGER SUKHAVATI-VYUHA THE LARGER SUKHAVATI-VYUHA DESCRIPTION OF SUKHAVAT THE LAND OF BLISS

Om. Adoration to the Three Treasures! Om. Adoration to all the glorious Buddhas and Bodhisattvas! Adoration to all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Aryas, Sravakas, and Pratyekabuddhas, past, present, and to come, who dwell in the unlimited and endless Lokadhatus of the ten quarters! Adoration to Amitdbha! Adoration to him whose soul is endowed with incomprehensible virtues!

Adoration to Amitâbha, to the Gina, to thee, O

Muni!

I go to Sukhavatt through thy.compassion also; To Sukhivati, with its groves, resplendent with gold,

The delightful, adorned with the sons of Sugata,—

I go to it, which is full of many jewels and treasures;

And the refuge of thee, the famous and wise. with thirty-two thousands of Bhikshus, all holy (arhat), free from frailties and cares, who had performed their religious duties, whose thoughts had been thoroughly freed through perfect knowledge, with inquiring thoughts, who had broken the fetters of existence, who had obtained their desires, who had conquered, who had achieved the highest self-restraint, whose thoughts and whose knowledge were unfettered, MahAnâgas (great heroes), possessed of the six kinds of knowledge, self-controlled, meditating on the eight kinds of salvation, possessed of the powers, wise in wisdom, elders, great disciples, viz. 1. AgñAtakaundinya, 2. Asvagit, 3.Vâshpa, 4. Mah4- naman, 5. Bhadra-it, 6. Yaodeva, 7.Vimala, 8. Subahu, 9. Parza Maitrayamtputra}, 10. Uruvilva-kasyapa, 11. Nadi-kasyapa, 12. Gay4-kAsyapa, 13. Kumara-kasyapa, 14. Maha-kâsyapa, 15. Sariputra, 16. Mah4- maudgalydyana, 17. Mahakaush/¢Zilya, 18. Mahdkaphila, ry. Mahâéunda, 20. Aniruddha, 21. Nandika, 22. Kampila ‘*, 23. Subhuti, 24. Revata, 25. Khadiravamka, 26. Vakula, 27. Svagata, 28. Amoghara£*a, 29. Parayamka, 30. Patka, 31. A"ullapatka, 32. Nanda, 33. RAhula, and 34. the blessed Ananda,—with these and with other elders, and great disciples, who were wise in wisdom, with the exception of one person who had still to be advanced on the path of the disciples, viz. the blessed Ananda;—and with many noble-minded Bodhisattvas, led by Maitreya.