"Realms"

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"Realms"

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What is the working definition of "realms" when modern Tendai Buddhists talk about the mutual possession of realms (a la Śramaṇa Zhìyǐ's "yī niàn sān qiān / 一念三千")?
Then, the monks uttered this gāthā:

These bodies are like foam.
Them being frail, who can rejoice in them?
The Buddha attained the vajra-body.
Still, it becomes inconstant and ruined.
The many Buddhas are vajra-entities.
All are also subject to inconstancy.
Quickly ended, like melting snow --
how could things be different?

The Buddha passed into parinirvāṇa afterward.
(T1.27b10 Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra DĀ 2)
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