This quote is from Master Hsuan Hua‘s commentary on the Medicine Master Sūtra.

[Medicine Master’s Vaiḍūrya] Buddhaland has always been completely pure. It is always clean, pure, and undefiled, as bright and clear as vaiḍūrya.

There are no women in the Vaiḍūrya Land. Some women’s rights activists object to Amitabha Buddha’s Land of Ultimate Bliss, saying, “Why are there no women in that land? Does Amitabha Buddha look down on women? Does he favor men over women?” Not at all. We should realize that the Sahā world, in which men and women engage in lust, is filled with all kinds of evil and suffering. There is nothing worthwhile here. Everything is unclean.

The Sahā world Is known as the World of the Five Turbidities. Our time is very impure–that’s the turbidity of the eon. The things we see with our eyes are also unclean–that’s the turbidity of views. We all have incredibly many afflictions–that’s the turbidity of afflictions. Living beings are all born from emotional desire, and they are differentiated into males and females–that’s the turbidity of living beings. Not only human beings, but all beings with blood and breath are this way–born from sexual desire and dying from sexual desire. Even germs are imperceptibly brought into existence by this kind of desire. As long as there is desire, one is impure. The turbidity of life comes about because beings in the Sahā world live in an extremely unclean environment. The things we see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and think about are all unclean. Thus, this is known as the Evil World of the Five Turbidities.

In contrast to our dusty, defiled world, there is no dirt in the heavens; nor in the Western Land of Ultimate Bliss, where the ground is paved with gold; nor in the Eastern Vaiḍūrya Land, which has ground made of vaiḍūrya.

The people in the land of Ultimate Bliss are born transformationally from the vows of Amitabha Buddha, and they are free of desire. The Vaiḍūrya Land is created from the vows of Medicine Master Buddha. Because these Buddha lands are completely free of desire and birth occurs by transformation, not by sexual reproduction, there are no women in these lands.

No lower destinies and no sounds of suffering. The hells, hungry ghosts, and animals do not exist in the Vaiḍūrya Land. There aren’t any heartbreaking sounds of pain, sorrow, or distress.