སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པ་ཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 38
The Ten Bhūmis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array 38
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38.2
In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Dharmamati teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of five hundred bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the west, there is a mountain called Possessed of Vajra Radiance, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Walks with the Gait of a Lion teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of three hundred bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the north, there is a mountain called Heap of Incense, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Gandhahastin teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of three thousand bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the east, there is a mountain called Mountain of Meadows,⁵ where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Mañjuśrī teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of ten thousand bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the northeastern direction, there is a mountain called Vajra Mountain, Site of Four Great Oceans, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Dharmodgata teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of twelve hundred bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the southeastern direction, there is a mountain called Stūpa, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Divine Aggregates teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of one thousand bodhisattvas.
38.3
“O children of the Victorious One! In the southwestern direction, there is a mountain called Jyotiṣprabha, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Bhadraśrī teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of three thousand bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the northwestern direction, there is a mountain called Gandhamādana, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided. In this dwelling place a bodhisattva called Radiating Luminous Incense teaches Dharma surrounded by a retinue of five thousand bodhisattvas.
“O children of the Victorious One! In the great ocean, there is a place called Good Cave, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“O children of the Victorious One! To the south of Vaiśālī, there is a place called Stable Roots, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“In a land called Pāṭaliputra, there is a place called Golden Park of the Saṅgha, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“In a land called Mathurā,⁶ there is a place called Satisfying Cave, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“In a land called Relinquishing the Vase, there is a place called Dharma Seat, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“In a land called Perfect Virtue, there is a place called Mucilinda Cave, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“In a land called Vatsa, there is a place, established by nāgas, called Añcala, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
38.4
“In a land called Kamboja, there is a place called Exalted by Love, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“In a land called China, there is a place called Nārāyaṇa Cave, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“In a land called Khaśa, there is a mountain called Gośṛṇga, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“In a land called Kashmir, there is a place called Sudarśaka, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“In a land called Increasing Joy, there is a place called Sthavira Cave, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“In a land called Jalandhar, there is a place called Teaching with Hands Folded, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.
“In the vicinity of the land called Gandhara, there is a place called Cave of Provisions, where bodhisattvas in the past have resided.”
Chapter 1
The Setting
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- སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan