法華遊意 1.47

1.47

Because they were all on Gṛdhrakūṭa, there is only one location; yet in terms of earlier and later, there are altogether three periods of pure and defiled: the first part of the sūtra was preached in a defiled land; the second part of the sūtra, from the chapter ‘Seeing the Jewel Stūpa’ onward through ‘Entrustment’, was preached in a pure land; the single chapter on ‘Divine Powers’, in which the ten directions were joined into a single land, was preached combinedly in both pure and defiled; and starting from ‘Medicine King’ through the end of the chapter ‘Encouragement of Samantabhadra’, it was preached back in the defiled land.