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