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  The Flower Ornament Scripture   A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK   TWENTY-SEVEN   27. The Ten Concentrations     AT THAT TIME the World   Honored One was at the site of enlightenment in a forest in the country of Magadha, having just attained perfect enlightenment; in the hall of universal light he entered the buddhas' con­ centration on the absolute instant, and by the inherent spiritual power of universal knowledge manifested the body of a realized buddha, pure and untrammeled, not relying on anything, with no clinging to objects, abiding in the ultimate tranquillity of cessation, endowed with great power, without any attachments, able to cause all beholders to gain awakening, appearing as appropriate, in accord with the time, always abiding in one form, which is no form. He was with as many great enlightening beings as atoms in ten buddha-lands, all of whom were of the rank of coronation , had ful filled enlig...