佛祖統紀 31.3

31.3

Reaching up to the jeweled flames above and penetrating down to the wind wheel below: this is a single world-seed as explained in the *Avataṃsaka*. In terms of vertical height, it is treated provisionally as having twenty tiers; in circumference, it roughly numbers eleven. Furthermore, moving out from this count, there are ten in each direction, totaling one hundred and eleven, arranged and abiding like the jewel-net of the king of gods. This is merely citing one portion of it. If one expands and extrapolates it, then inexpressible tens of dust-motes of worlds are linked one to another, established everywhere; in each a Buddha appears, and each is filled with sentient beings: this is the Flower-Store Adorned Ocean of Worlds. As for the Sahā great trichiliocosm, the four continents of Sumeru, the southern continent [Jambudvīpa], the Five Indias, the eastern radiance of Cīnasthāna—whether in name or substance, whether with text or with charts—although progressing from the broad to the narrow, it actually presents the particular to integrate with the general. Having clarified the three time periods, one must distinguish directions and realms; this is what students ought to know. I compile the 'Treatise on the Names and Substances of the Worlds.'