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  The Flower Ornament Scripture   A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK TWELVE   12. Chief   in Goodness     THEN THE ENLIGHTENING BEING Manjushri, having explained the great virtues of unpolluted,    undistorted    pure activity,    wanted    to    bring    out the virtues of the aspiration for enlightenment,   so he asked the enlight­ening being Chief in Goodness,     Now I have, for the sake of the enlightening beings , Explained the purifying practices cultivated by Buddhas m the past; Benevolent One, you too, in this assembly should Expound the supreme virtues of practical application.     Then Chief in Goodness responded in verse:     Very good, Benevolent One-you should listen clearly. Those   virtues   and   merits   cannot   be   measured: I will now tell a little,   a...