The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK NINE 9. Awakening by Light THEN THE BUDDHA, from beneath the wheel-marks on his feet, emit ted a hundred billion light beams, illuminating this billion-world universe, with its four hundred billion continents, hundred billion oceans, hun dred billion surrounding mountain ranges, hundred billion enlightening beings being born, hundred billion enlightening beings leaving home, hundred billion Buddhas realizing true enlightenment, hundred billion Buddhas teaching, hundred billion Buddhas passing away, a hundred billion polar mountain kings, a hundred billion heavens of hosts of celestial kings, a hundred billion heavens of thirty-three celestial realms, a hundred billion heavens of timely portion, a hundred billion heavens of satisfaction, a hun...
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