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‘And again, O Ananda, in that Buddha country, those who are Sravakas are possessed of the light of a fathom, and those who are Bodhisattvas are possessed of the light of a hundred thousand kotis of yoanas; barring always the two Bodhisattvas, by whose light that world is everywhere shining with eternal splendour.

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Then the blessed Ananda said this to the Bhagavat: ‘What are the names, O Bhagavat, of those two noble-minded Bodhisattvas’

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The Bhagavat said: ‘One of them, O Ananda, is the noble-minded Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, and the second is Mahâsthamaprépta by name. And, O Ananda, these two were born there, having left this Buddha country here’.

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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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