Vimalakirti reveals himself as a being from Akshobhya's pure land Abhirati, and to prove it lifts the entire world system with his right hand and sets it before the assembly, demonstrating that purity and impurity are not separate.
When the lay sage Vimalakirti feigned illness in Vaishali, Manjushri alone among all the bodhisattvas dared accept the Buddha's charge to visit him, leading to a profound dialogue on emptiness that culminated in Vimalakirti's thunderous silence — the wordless teaching that surpassed all discourse.
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