Notes

n.1See Subhashita Translation Group, trans., The Chapter on The Scale of Life , Toh 44-37 (84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2022).

n.2See Subhashita Translation Group, trans., Expounding the Qualities of the Thus-Gone Ones’ Buddhafields , Toh 104 (84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2022).

n.3This sūtra was edited and translated in Vinītā 2010.

n.4See Denkarma, folio 299.b, and Herrmann-Pfandt, p. 116.

n.5As indicated at the beginning of the sūtra, it was the bodhisattva King of the Inconceivable who delivered this discourse. Nonetheless, “the Blessed One” appears to refer to Śākyamuni here.

n.6Based on the Tibetan syntax, it does appear that King of the Inconceivable is praising his own words in this passage.