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  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...