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A Most Exquisite Setting

1 The Occasion

[ ]=Jens Braarvig

Thus have I heard. The Blessed One was residing in Rajagrha…

[“House of the King”, the great town of Rajagrha, or, in the highest meaning (paramarthatas), the place of the Awakened Lord who is the king of religion (dharmaraja), namely the pure sphere of all moments of existence (visuddhadharmadhatu). The tika understands the place of the Lord on two levels, it is the actual town of Rajagrha where his body is, but as the Awakened he is also one with total or absolute reality] read more

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