四明尊者教行錄 4.55

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4.55

Answer: It is only when there are nayutas of small lands in each of the various directions that it is called a great-thousand [world]. When the sūtra speaks of 'dust particles of a great-thousand, etc.', how could it not encompass a hundred thousand? If a single particle of dust still possesses divisions in the ten directions, how much more so a great-thousand world? If one were to say that the entire realms of the ten directions were all reduced to dust, only then would it contradict the sūtra text.

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