[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka) › [སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo) › [The Ten Bhumis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000) › 38.3 # སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པ་ཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 38.3 The Ten Bhūmis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array 38.3 - **Language:** English ### [38.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.38.3) “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. - [Previous: 38.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.38.2) - [Next: 38.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.38.4) - [Up: 38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.38) ## Linked texts (1) - [སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo.38.3) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.38.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.38.3) · Pramāṇa