《Toh 263 (Kangyur)》
CBETA 84K-toh263
Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas. Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was residing in the Land of Activity. He was near the market town in the Land of Activity called Removing Impurities, D rnyog pa sel ba zhes bya ba’i byed pa can gyi grong rdal du. The translation of byed pa can as “Land of Activity” is based on the assumption that it is the name of a region or land, such as bde ba can, which means “[a place or land] possessing bliss” and which has thus been sometimes translated “Land of Bliss.” The kind of activity meant here could encompass both trade or economic work as well as religious austerities, but the name remains ambiguous and somewhat unclear to us. We understand the name of the specific town as possibly referring to the “five impurities” (rnyog pa lnga) that are mentioned throughout the text. on a mountain called Increasing Light, at the hermitage of the seer Wind Horse. He was surrounded by a great saṅgha of 1,250 monks and by bodhisattva great beings who had emanated in the domain of the thus-gone ones by means of their unattached wisdom. All those bodhisattva great beings had developed the transformative power of immeasurable great love. With their…
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