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Abhirati

 

The eastern Buddha-field or Pure Land associated with the Buddha Akṣobhya and described in the Akṣobhya-tathāgatasya-vyūha Sūtra. Though the focus of some devotional interest in early Mahāyāna, Abhirati did not achieve the popularity of the Pure Land of Sukhāvatī.

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