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Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 10: The Buddha of the Fragrant Land (9)
The Buddha replied and said: “In the lower region beyond the Buddha-countries even equal to the number of the sands of forty-two Ganga rivers there is a world called Saha; and there dwells a Buddha called Sakyamuni now in the wicked age of five corruptions; he teaches the doctrine for the sake of those who find pleasure in the inferior law only. There is a Bodhisattva called Vimalakirti, who, abiding in the Inconceivable Emancipation, preaches the law for the sake of the Bodhisattvas; now he specially sends this incarnate Bodhisattva to us, to praise my name and this land in order to help the Bodhisattvas there to increase virtue and merit.
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 6 (2)
The Lord Buddha replied to Subhuti, saying: “Have no such apprehensive thought! Even at the remote period of five centuries subsequent to the Nirvana...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 18 (7)
The Lord Buddha enquired of Subhuti, saying: “What think you? If there were as many rivers Ganges as there are grains of sand in the Ganges, and if...