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Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha 24

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‘And again, O Ananda, in that Buddha country whatever beings have been born, and are being born, and will be born, are always constant in absolute truth, till they have reached Nirvaza. And why is that? Because there is no room or mention there of the other two divisions (rAis), such as beings not constant or constant in falsehood.

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‘On this wise, O Ananda, that world is briefly called Sukhavatt, not at full length. Even a kalpa, O Ananda, would come to an end, while the causes of happiness which exist in that world Sukhavatt are being praised, and yet it would be impossible to reach the end of them.’

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F. Max Müller's translation (1894), read from scans of the printed volume. Section 8 holds the 46 vows of Dharmākara. A few section numbers the scans did not show are run into the section before, and some names may appear garbled.

Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East vol. 49 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): the Buddha-karita of Aśvaghoṣa, translated by E. B. Cowell; the Larger and Smaller Sukhāvatī-vyūha, the Vagrakkhedikā and the Pragñā-pāramitā-hṛdaya-sūtra, translated by F. Max Müller. Public domain. Text read from scans in the Internet Archive. · Source ↗

Buddhist Mahāyāna Texts, Sacred Books of the East 49 (1894). Public domain. Read from scans of the printed edition: every word was checked against three or four independent scans of the same printing and corrected where they agree; footnotes, running heads and page numbers are left out. Diacritics the OCR could not read are not reproduced.

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