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Showing posts with the label 033. The Flower Ornament Scripture 19. Ascent to the Palace of the Suyama Heaven
  The Flower Ornament Scripture   A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK NINETEEN   19. Ascent to the Palace of the Suyama Heaven     THEN, BY THE SPIR ITUAL POWER of the Enlightened One,   in   all   worlds of the ten directions, in the Jambu continent of   each   of   the   four quarters,   and on the peak of their   polar   mountains , the Enlightened One was seen in the midst of an assembly, wherein the enlightening beings, due to the spiritual power of the Buddha, expounded the Teaching, each one having the sense of facing the Buddha at all times. At that time the World Honored One, without leaving the foot of the enlightenment   trees and the peaks    of the polar mountains,   headed    for the jewel-adorned   hall of the palace of the Suyama heaven . The king of the Suyama heaven, seeing from afar the Buddha coming, produced by magical powers...