Thirteen More Dwellings, Including China
The list continues past mountains and directions into named cities and countries — Vaiśālī, Mathurā, Kashmir, Gandhāra — each still simply stated to hold a company of bodhisattvas since ancient times, without a resident leader named this time. Partway through the list, 震旦國 appears: China itself, named beside Kashmir and Gandhāra as one dwelling-place among many.
From the Sea to China
The list shifts from mountains in the eight directions to cities and countries with real names on a map, ending on a shorter, plainer formula: a place, a name, and bodhisattvas who have dwelled there since ancient times.
「大海之中復有住處，名：莊嚴窟，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。毘舍離南有一住處，名：善住根，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。摩度羅城有一住處，名：滿足窟，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。俱珍那城有一住處，名曰：法座，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。清淨彼岸城有一住處，名：目真隣陀窟，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。摩蘭陀國有一住處，名：無礙龍王建立，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。甘菩遮國有一住處，名：出生慈，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。震旦國有一住處，名：那羅延窟，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。䟽勒國有一住處，名：牛頭山，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。迦葉彌羅國有一住處，名曰：次第，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。增長歡喜城有一住處，名：尊者窟，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。菴浮梨摩國有一住處，名：見億藏光明，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。乾陀羅國有一住處，名：苫婆羅窟，從昔已來，諸菩薩眾於中止住。」
"Within the great sea, there is further a dwelling-place called Adorned Cave, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. South of Vaiśālī, there is a dwelling-place called Well-Rooted, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. In the city of Mathurā, there is a dwelling-place called Cave of Fulfillment, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. In the city of Juzhenna, there is a dwelling-place called Dharma Seat, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. In the City of the Pure Far Shore, there is a dwelling-place called Mucilinda Cave, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. In the country of Molantuo, there is a dwelling-place called Established by the Unobstructed Nāga King, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. In the country of Kamboja, there is a dwelling-place called Compassion Born, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. In China, there is a dwelling-place called Nārāyaṇa Cave, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. In the country of Kashgar, there is a dwelling-place called Ox-Head Mountain, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. In the country of Kashmir, there is a dwelling-place called Sequence, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. In the city of Increasing Joy, there is a dwelling-place called Elder's Cave, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. In the country of Anfulimo, there is a dwelling-place called Beholding the Light of a Hundred Million Treasuries, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times. In the country of Gandhāra, there is a dwelling-place called Shanpoluo Cave, where multitudes of bodhisattvas have dwelled since ancient times."
震旦國有一住處，名：那羅延窟 — in China, there is a dwelling-place called Nārāyaṇa Cave. This list moves through a real map of the Buddhist world of its time — Vaiśālī, Mathurā, Kashmir, Kashgar, Gandhāra, Kamboja — and China is named among them without any special emphasis, one entry in a list otherwise devoted to the edges of the known world as seen from India. Unlike Mount Clear and Cool in Part 578, no later tradition seems to have settled on where in China this Nārāyaṇa Cave, 那羅延窟, actually was.
Part 579 Complete — Chapter Thirty-Two and Fascicle Forty-Five Complete
This completes chapter thirty-two, 諸菩薩住處品, and with it, fascicle forty-five of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra in full. Part 580 opens fascicle forty-six with chapter thirty-three, 佛不思議法品, on the inconceivable qualities of a buddha.