Then Vimalakirti having entered into a Samadhi, manifested to the great assembly a country called Sarvagandhasu-gandha, which is situated in the upper regions beyond the Buddha-countries exceeding in number even the sands of forty-two Ganga rivers; and. there is in that land a Buddha living at present, known as Gandhakuta, and the perfume of that land is most excelling even the perfume of men and deities of the worlds of all the Buddhas in all the ten quarters. There in that land neither the name of Sravaka nor of Pratyekabuddha is heard; there is only a great assembly of Bodhisattvas. The Buddha preaches the law to [those Bodhisattva]. Everything in that land is made of perfume. All over the land towers and terraces are built of perfume. People walk on a perfume-ground: All the gardens are of perfume. The savoury perfume of food fills the countless worlds in all the ten quarters.

'And he who desires the world of perfumes and garlands (gandhamâlya), by his mere will perfumes and garlands come to him, and having obtained the...