event of sacred, religious or dharmic importance. As sacred precincts, both yantras and mandalas are kshetras. [Mahayana] Buddhism has two analogues to the kshetra, the Pure Land or buddhakṣetra and the refuge tree . Kshetra is also an etymon of the Avestan term Xšaθra "[Desirable] Dominion", which holds the semantic field "power"