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Showing posts with the label 053. The Flower Ornament Scripture 39. Entry into the Realm of Reality
  The Flower Ornament Scripture   A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK THIRTY-NINE   39. Entry into the Realm of Reality   THUS HAVE I HEARD. At one time the Blessed One was in Sravasti, in a mag­nificent pavilion in the garden of Anathapindada in the Jeta grove, together with five thousand enlightening beings, led by Samantabhadra, the univer­sally good enlightening being, and Manjushri. The names were Endowed with Perspicacious Knowledge, Endowed with Essential Knowledge, Endowed with Unattached Knowledge, Endowed with Blossoming Knowledge, Endowed with Sunlike Knowledge, Endowed with Moonlike Knowledge, Endowed with Undefiled Knowledge, Endowed with Ada­mantine Knowledge, Endowed with   Unemotional   Knowledge,   Endowed with Radiant Knowledge, Starlike, Mountainlike, Jewellike, Unattached, Flowerlike, Undefiled, Sunlike, Resplendent, Dispassionate, Radiant, Jewel Energy, Great Energy, Knowledge Thunderbolt Energy, Undefi...