I just looked up the Blood Bowl Sutra. Wow. Women in hell drinking menstruation blood because they had dirty women's bodies. Yikes. Luckily it's apocrypha. They would be for me whether or not they were officially. But supposedly earlier versions condemned warriors, so maybe it wasn't that bad when it was first written. (Fascinating post on Reddit)
This led me to the Ojoyoshu, a Pure Land text, which looks interesting. This led me to the Amitayurdhyana Sutra, Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra and Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, which are at the heart of the Pure Land tradition. I think I've read these. They could stand a rereading, of course.
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