The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK TWENTY-SIX 26. The Ten Stages THUS HAVE I HEARD. Once the Blessed One was sojourning in the heaven of control of others' emanations. Not long after his perfect enlightenment-the second week-he was in the palace of the king of that heaven, a shining, radiantly pure treasury of jewels, together with a large group of enlightening beings, all of them beyond regression and bound to become perfectly enlightened in one lifetime, who had come from different worlds. Those enlightening beings were abiding in the sphere of knowledge of all enlightening beings; their sphere of action was that of ceaseless penetration...
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