(12) Buddha said: “ Go ye [Bodhisattvas]. Keep back the fragrance of your bodies lest those beings feel attachment [towards you] in their minds. Again you should abandon your real forms lest those who seek to be Bodhisattvas in that land should cherish [the feeling of] self-abasement. Again, you should not be contemptuous of them and thus create a hindrance-thought; and why? All the lands in all the ten quarters are [equal] even as the sky, but only for those beings who find pleasure in the inferior law Buddhas do not manifest their lands of purity.”

(24) “ Again, in the nadir, passing through the countries equal in number to the sands of the river Ganga, he may take a Buddha-land [among them], and deposit it anywhere, at any height, passing through the countries equal in number to the sands of the river Ganga, as if he was lifting a leaf of the date with a needle, no disturbance being caused thereby in the land.

(3) 'Unblessed, surely, are the worlds to which a man goes by giving (as his promised present at a sacrifice) cows which have drunk water, eaten hay, given their milk, and are barren.'

(19) When the world Abhirati was manifested, fourteen Nayutas of men in this Saha world cherished the thought of supreme enlightenment. They all wished to be born in the land of Abhirati, and Buddha Sakyamuni gave them his assurance and said: “Ye shall all be born in that 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.

(193) A supernatural person (a Buddha) is not easily found, he is not born everywhere. Wherever such a sage is born, that race prospers.

(1) Verily, that divinity having struck off the evil of these divinities, even death, made this go to where is the end of the quarters of heaven. There it set down their evils. Therefore one should not go to [foreign] people, one should not go to the end [of the earth], lest he fall in with evil, with death.