廬山蓮宗寶鑑 3.12

3.12

Sixth, the Pure Land indicated in the Nirvāṇa-sūtra. The Tathāgata has a true reward Pure Land in the west past Buddha lands as numerous as the sands of twenty-two Ganges rivers; for a portion of bodhisattvas of the provisional teachings of the triyāna who have not yet eliminated defilement and purity, it is said that this trichiliocosm is entirely a defiled land, and the Tathāgata's reward realm Pure Land is expediently posited in the west. This is expedient, not real.