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Source: Buddhist Door: GlossaryThey are the Buddhas and the Great Bodhisattvas in Western Paradise (Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss): 1. Amitabha 2. Avalokitesvara (Kuan Yin) 3. MahasthamapraptaSee also (Relevant definitions)
Full-text: Amitabha, Buddhakshetra, Pure Land.
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Preliminary note: Hearing of the name of the Buddhas < [Part 3 - Bringing innumerable beings to abhisaṃbodhi]
Appendix 6 - The Legend of the Buddha Lokeśvararāja and the bhikṣu Dharmākara < [Chapter XV - The Arrival of the Bodhisattvas of the Ten Directions]
The Gospel of Buddha (by Paul Carus)
The gods of northern Buddhism (by Alice Getty)
Part III - The Expansion Of Buddhism < [Introduction]
Sutra of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Fundamental Vows
The Dawn of the Dhamma (by Sucitto Bhikkhu)
Chapter 20 - Creative Delight < [The Sutta]
Buddhist records of the Western world (Xuanzang) (by Samuel Beal)
Chapter 2 - Country of ’O-yu-t’o (Ayodhya) < [Book V - Six Countries]
Chapter 14 - Country of T’o-na-kie-tse-kia (Dhanakataka) < [Book X - Seventeen Countries]