The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK TWENTY-THREE 23. Ascent to the Palace of the Tushita Heaven THEN, BY THE SPIRITUAL POWER of the Buddha, in each continent Jambu of every world in the ten directions was seen the Buddha sitting under a tree, at each of which were enlightening beings imbued with spiritual power from the Buddha expounding the teaching, each think ing themselves to be always face to face with the Buddha. At that time the Buddha, again by spiritual power, went to the palace adorned by all exquisite jewels in the Tushita heaven of satisfaction and happiness , yet without leaving the foot of the enlightenment tree and the palace of the Suyama heaven on the peak of Mt. Sumeru. The celestial king of the Tushita heaven, seeing from a...
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