The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary A P P E N D I X 2 Amplifications of Book 39 There are a number of passages, some quite long, to be found in Prajna's forty-scroll translation ofthe Gandavyuha, which are not in either ofthe ear lier Chinese translations, nor in the Sanskrit original. It is probably fair to assume, therefore, that these are additions made by Prajna or his committee of assistants. Indeed, some ofthem appear to be ofthe nature of explanations of or amplifications on the text; some seem to go off a bit excessively on tan gents. The following excerpts present a selection of those additions which seemed in my opinion to be worth translating. -THOMAS CLEARY Instructions of Muktaka The accumulation of illusions from action is called mind; intellect thinks and assesses, and the ideational consciousness discriminates. The five sense consci...
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