《Toh 99 (Kangyur)》
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Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas! Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was staying in Śrāvastī, in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍada’s Park, along with a great saṅgha of 1,250 monks. At that time, in the city of Transcending Virtue grong khyer chen po dge ba’i pha rol ’gro zhes bya ba. No place whose name has this exact Tibetan rendering is found elsewhere in the canonical texts, and it has no attested Sanskrit equivalent. There is, however, a very close match in the Gaṇḍavyūha (Degé Kangyur, vol. 38, phal chen, a, F.65.b; see also Roberts, 2021): dge ba’i pha rol tu phyin pa, Śubhapāraṃgama in Sanskrit, the southern city where the householder bodhisattva Veṣṭhila lives—although this may well be an allegorical rather than a geographical name. Intriguingly, Veṣṭhila worships at a sandalwood shrine. Whatever the case, the stated location in the present text differs from that of the temple in The Exemplary Tale of Pūrṇa, which is built in the coastal city Sūrpāraka (Tib. slo ma lta bu)—the capital of Aparānta and Pūrṇa’s native city, identified with modern Sopara, just to the north of Mumbai. there was a householder, a master builder, The Degé and other Kangyurs of predominan…
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