budDakzetra
buddha-kṣetra , nt. (= Pali , late, °khetta), Buddha-field, region or (usually) world or world-system in which a particular Buddha lives and operates; see Teresina Rowell, ‘The background and early use of the Buddhakṣetra concept,’ The Eastern Buddhist 6.199—430 and 7.131—176 , where the term is ably discussed; a few out of many occurrences are here recorded: descriptions of a b°, SP 65.9 ff. ; 144.9 ff. ; its ‘jewels’ are Bodhisattvas SP 66.3 ; in Mv ii.301.16 Bodhisattvas in numberless b° take the form of gods and come to Śākyamuni as he is about to become enlightened; misc. , Mvy 3065 ; Mv ii.319.11 ; 349.17 ; iii.139.3 ; 342.1 ; in Mv i.123.4 ff. enumeration of some ‘present’ Buddha-fields and their Buddhas; huddhakṣetraṃ viśodhenti bodhisattvā(ḥ) Mv i.283.3 ; atuliya (so mss. ) aprameyaṃ °traṃ aparimitaṃ bharitvā ( having filled ) sameti (= śamayati) khila-doṣa-mohaṃ (so read, see s.v. khila ) Mv ii.295.9 ; on ‘emptying’ of buddha-fields, see s.v. riñcati ; in Mv i.121.14 ff. the question is asked whether Buddhas are produced in all Buddha-fields, and the answer, 122.2—3 , is negative; in many there is no Buddha; Śikṣ 147.15 speaks of going to a buddhaśūnyabuddhakṣetram as an evil fate; so in SP 68.2 ( vs ; cf. 66.3 ff. , prose, same subject) buddhakṣetra is clearly equated with lokadhātu , meaning merely world-system , presumably as potential field for a Buddha , but not necessarily containing one; on this see Rowell , op. cit. , 415 . See also upakṣetra .