Introduction to the Translation
ix
Abbreviations and Works Consulted
xxxix
Translation
In the Beginning: The Purification of
Buddha-domains
3
Inconceivable Mastery of Stratagem
17
Dispatching the Advanced Disciples and
Bodhisattvas Becomes an Issue
23
A Sick Man is Consoled
49
The State of Inconceivable Freedom
is Revealed
61
The Goddess
69
The Lineage of the Realized Ones
81
Entering into the Gateway of the
Truth of Non-duality
93
A Phantom Delivers a Meal
101
The Gift of the Teaching Named “Ending and Not Ending”
109
The World-system Abhirati is Brought into Sahā, Revealing the Realized One
Akṣobhya
121
Conclusion and Entrustment
129
Appendices
Emendations to the Sanskrit Text
141
Glossary of Sanskrit Terms
147
Glossary and Index of Key Terms
153
Index of Proper Names Appearing in the Translation
175
Notes
179
Translators
217