遊心安樂道 1.13

1.13

Third, regarding the portal of the contrast between pure and mixed: Places where ordinary beings and the two vehicles cohabit cannot be called pure worlds; only places of birth for bodhisattvas who have entered the great bhūmis are entitled to be called pure worlds. The former are not purely clean, while the latter are purely clean. Relying on this meaning, the Yogācārabhūmi says: "Worlds are immeasurable, of which there are two kinds: pure and impure. In a pure world, there are no naraka, animals, or hungry ghosts, nor is it the desire realm, form realm, or formless realm; purely an assembly of bodhisattvas abides within it, and therefore it is called a pure world. Bodhisattvas who have entered the third bhūmi, through the power of vows, take birth there; there are no ordinary beings, nor are there non-ordinary śrāvakas or pratyekabuddhas; only non-ordinary bodhisattvas attain birth there." It is explained: "This third bhūmi is the Pramuditā-bhūmi, because with respect to the seven categories of bhūmis, it is the third, the bhūmi of pure and superior intention; subsuming the thirteen stages, seven kinds of bhūmis are established." This is fully explained in that treatise.