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  The Flower Ornament Scripture   A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK THIRTY-SEVEN   37. Manifestation   of Buddha     THEN, from the circle of white hair between his brows,   the Buddha emitted a great beam of light called manifestation of the realizer of Thusness, accompanied by countless trillions of light beams. That light illumined all the worlds in the whole cosmos,   circling ten times to the right, revealing the immeasurable powers of the enlightened, awakening countless enlightening beings, shaking all worlds, extinguishing   the suffering of all states of misery, eclipsing the abodes of all demons, and showing   all buddhas sitting on the seat of enlightenment   attaining per­ fect awakening, as well as all the assemblies at the sites of enlightenment. Having done all this, the light returned and circled the assembly of en­ lightening beings, then entered the head of the enlightening being Wo...