經律異相 1.47

1.47

Ābhāsvara heaven (the *Vibhāṣā* chapter says: 'Bright Light Heaven; when speaking, their mouths emit boundless pure light'). The king is named Joyous Light (the Loutan jing calls it the Api-fu heaven; bodhisattvas also call it Light Mindfulness, or Light Sound). Observing the foul and wretched stench of Jambudvīpa ascending to reek for seven hundred million li, bodhisattvas therefore are not born in Ābhāsvara (the Dīrgha Āgama says: 'One hundred yojanas up in heaven, the foul stench can be smelled from afar, worse than a latrine.'). The second dhyāna is collectively termed Ābhāsvara. Its palace is twice the distance in yojanas from the Brahmakāyika palace (from the twentieth fascicle of the Dīrgha Āgama; also from the Avataṃsaka, Da zhidu lun, and Pusa chutai jing).