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Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (42)
l) The expedient methods (upaya) of teaching the absolute truth are the Bodhisattva’s pure land, for when he attains Buddhahood, living beings conversant with upaya will be reborn there.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Alternative Choosing: Supernormal Birth; or Womb-Birth (38.4)
There are two alternatives; the transference [of the consciousness-principle] to a pure Buddha realm, and the selection of the impure sangsaric...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The General Conclusion (41.9)
By this Select Teaching, one obtaineth Buddhahood at the moment of death. Were the Buddhas of the Three Times [the Past, the Present, and the Future]...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Introduction (11.13)
Those sentient beings who have been reached by it cannot go to the unhappy states.