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{{Buddhist term<br />
| title=Abhirati<br />
| sa= अभिरति<br />
| zh=妙喜;<br>阿比羅提<br />
| zh-Latn=<br/>miàoxǐ;<br/>ābǐluótí <br />
| vi=Diệu hỷ<br />
| ja=妙喜;<br/>歓喜国;<br/>阿比羅提<br />
| ja-Latn=<br/>myōki;<br/>kangikoku;<br/>abiradai<br />
| ko=묘희<br />
| ko-Latn=myoheui<br />
| bo=མངོན་པར་དགའ་བ་<br />
| bo-Latn=mngon par dga' ba<br />
| en=manifest joy<br />
|}}<br />
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'''Abhirati''' (lit. "The Joyous") is the eastern [[pure land]] associated with [[Akshobhya]] in [[Mahayana|Mahayana Buddhism]].{{sfn|Nattier|2000|p=72}} It is described in the ''[[Akṣobhyatathāgatasyavyūha Sūtra]]'' ([[Taishō Tripiṭaka]], 313), which was first translated into Chinese by [[Lokaksema (Buddhist monk)|Lokakṣema]] by 186 CE.{{sfn|Nattier|2000|p=76}}<br />
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Although Abhirati emerged in the earliest era of Mahayana thought, Abhirati is far less widely known than [[Sukhavati|Sukhāvatī]], the pure land of [[Amitābha]] that has been the sole focus of [[Pure Land Buddhism]] since the [[Tang dynasty]].{{sfn|Nattier|2000|p=74}}<br />
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===Bibliography===<br />
* {{cite journal|last1=Nattier|first1=Jan|title=The Realm of Aksobhya: A Missing Piece in the History of Pure Land Buddhism|journal=Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies|date=2000|volume=23|issue=1|pages=71–102|url=http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/jiabs/article/view/9167/3026}}<br />
* {{cite journal|last1=Strauch|first1=Ingo|title=More missing pieces of Early Pure Land Buddhism: New evidence for Akṣobhya and Abhirati in an early Mahāyāna sūtra from Gandhāra|journal=Eastern Buddhist|date=2010|volume=41|pages=23–66}}<br />
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