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बुद्धक्षेत्र (buddhakSetra)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
बुद्धक्षेत्र - buddhakSetra -
n.
 - country in which a Buddha appears
बुद्धक्षेत्र - buddhakSetra -
n.
 - Buddha's district
Monier Williams Cologne
English
बुद्ध—क्षेत्र
n.
 B°'s district, the country in which a B° appears,
Kāraṇḍ.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
buddha-kṣetra, nt. (= Pali, late, °khetta), Buddha-field, region or (usually) world or world-system in which a particular Buddha lives and operates
see Teresina Rowell, ‘The background and early use of the Buddhakṣetra concept, ’ The Eastern Buddhist 〔6.199—430〕 and 〔7.131—176〕, where the term is ably discussed
a few out of many occurrences are here recorded: descriptions of a b°, SP 〔65.9 ff.〕
〔144.9 ff.〕
its ‘jewels’ are Bodhisattvas SP 〔66.3〕
in Mv 〔ii.301.16〕 Bodhisattvas in numberless b° take the form of gods and come to Śākyamuni as he is about to become enlightened
misc., Mvy 〔3065〕
Mv 〔ii.319.11〕
〔349.17〕
〔iii.139.3〕
〔342.1〕
in Mv 〔i.123.4 ff.〕 enumeration of some ‘present’ Buddha-fields and their Buddhas
huddhakṣetraṃ viśodhenti bodhisattvā(ḥ) Mv 〔i.283.3〕
atuliya (so mss.) aprameyaṃ °traṃ aparimitaṃ bharitvā (having filled) sameti (= śamayati) khila-doṣa-mohaṃ (so read, see s.v. khila) Mv 〔ii.295.9〕
on ‘emptying’ of buddha-fields, see s.v. riñcati
in Mv 〔i.121.14 ff.〕 the question is asked whether Buddhas are produced in all Buddha-fields, and the answer, 〔122.2—3〕, is negative
in many there is no Buddha
Śikṣ 〔147.15〕 speaks of going to a buddhaśūnyabuddhakṣetram as an evil fate
so in SP 〔68.2〕 (vs
cf. 〔66.3 ff.〕, prose, same subject) buddhakṣetra is clearly equated with lokadhātu, meaning merely world-system, presumably as potential field for a Buddha, but not necessarily containing one
on this see Rowell, op. cit., 〔415〕. See also upakṣetra.