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Note: this Appendix is extracted from 惭补丑腻辫谤补箩帽腻辫腻谤补尘颈迟腻艣腻蝉迟谤补 chapter XLVII part 4.5 (value of the Buddha fields):

Thus, in the intermediate spaces between two worlds (濒辞办腻苍迟补谤颈办腻) where there is no sun, beings live and die in the shadows (补苍诲丑补办腻谤补). At the time when a Buddha is born, a brilliant light (补惫补产丑腻蝉补) shines temporarily, and all see themselves, see one another (补苍测辞苍测补峁� 辫补艣测补苍迟颈) and see the sun and moon.

Thus illuminated, the beings [of the 濒辞办腻苍迟补谤颈办腻] recognize and say:

鈥淭hose over there are very worthy; we ourselves are great sinners.鈥�

Sometimes, the Buddha illumines the Buddha fields with his brilliance completely, and the beings of the universes without Buddha, seeing the Buddha鈥檚 brilliance, experience great joy (尘补丑腻尘耻诲颈迟腻) and say:

鈥淔or us, it was shadows (补苍诲丑补办腻谤补), but for them, great light.鈥�

Notes on Lok膩ntarik膩:

Anguttara, II, p. 130鈥�131 (T 125, k. 17,p. 631b19鈥揷10). 鈥�

On four occasions, when the Bodhisattva descends into the womb of his mother (尘腻迟耻 办耻肠肠丑颈测补峁� okkamati), comes out of his mother鈥檚 womb (尘腻迟耻 kucchism膩 nikkhamati), attains supreme complete enlightenment (补苍耻迟迟补谤补峁� 蝉补尘尘腻蝉补尘产辞诲丑颈峁� abhisambujjhati), or turns the Wheel of Dharma (诲丑补尘尘补肠补办办补峁� pavatteti), there is a grand miracle: a brilliant light illumines the 濒辞办腻苍迟补谤颈办腻 (fem. pl.). These are the intermediate spaces between the universes of four continents. Grouped into three, these universes, circular in form, touch one another by their outer walls (肠补办谤补惫腻濒补), like three coins brought together. Thus between them they demarcate a surface with the form of a triangle with three arched sides. These 濒辞办腻苍迟补谤颈办腻s, infinite in number like the universes that demarcate them, are always plunged in deep darkness to the point that their inhabitants cannot even distinguish their own limbs. However, a brilliant light illumines them on the four occasions indicated above. Then the inhabitants of the 濒辞办腻苍迟补谤颈办补蝉 notice one another and also discover the beings populating the neighboring universes, normally illumined by the sun and moon.

The illumination of the 濒辞办腻苍迟补谤颈办腻s is fully described by a stock phrase which, both in the 笔腻濒颈 and the Sanskrit, shows numerous variations:

笔腻濒颈, 顿墨驳丑补, II, p. 12,15; Majjhima, III, p. 120; 厂补峁儁耻迟迟补, V, p. 454; Anguttara, II, p. 130. 鈥� I. B. Horner, Middle Length Sayings, II, p. 165, translates it as follows:

And even in those spaces between the worlds, gloomy, baseless regions of blackness plunged in blackness, where the moon and the sun, powerful and majestic though they are, cannot make their light prevail 鈥� even there there appeared the illimitable glorious radiance, surpassing even the deva-majesty of devas. And those beings who had uprisen there recognized one another by means of this radiance, and they thought: 鈥淚ndeed there are other beings who are uprising here.鈥�

Sanskrit in Sanskr. Mah膩pad膩na, p. 82鈥�83; Sanskr. 惭补丑腻辫补谤颈苍颈谤惫腻峁嘺, p. 214鈥�216; 惭补丑腻惫补蝉迟耻, I, p. 41, 229, 240; II, p. 162; III, p. 334, 341; Divy膩vad膩na, p. 204, 205, 206: lalitavistara, p. 51, 410; 艢atas膩hasrik膩, p. 102; Saddahrmapu峁囜笉., p. 163.

F. Edgerton, Dictionary, p. 464鈥�465, translates thus:

And even those world-interstitial-spaces, (which are) miseries and covered over with miseries, darknesses, glooms of darkness, 鈥� in which the moon and sun here, which possess such great supernatural power and dignity (pr capacity) are not capable of (producing) light by (their) light鈥� even in them a great, magnificent radiance appeared (at that time).

顿墨驳丑补, II, p. 12:

Y膩 pi t膩 lokantarik膩 补驳丑腻 asa峁僾ut膩 andhak膩r膩 补苍诲丑补办腻谤补timis膩 鈥� sa帽j膩nant: A帽帽e pi kira bho 蝉补迟迟腻 idh奴papann膩 ti.

Saddharmapu峁囜笉., p. 163:

Sarve峁�u ca te峁�u lokadh膩tu峁�u y膩 lok膩ntatik膩s t膩su ya ak峁�a峁嚹佱弗 鈥� anye 鈥檖i bata bha岣� 蝉补迟迟惫补岣� sant墨hopapann膩 iti.

The 罢谤补颈迟茅 departs somewhat from the original texts, themselves poorly established.