[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka) › [སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo) › [The Ten Bhumis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000) › 31.15 # སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པ་ཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 31.15 The Ten Bhūmis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array 31.15 - **Language:** English ### [31.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.31.15) “You have excellent, stainless understanding. Teach with clarity the different bhūmis, Describing completely the way of the sugatas, Which is without impediment and possesses the ten strengths.” Then at that time, there shone from the Bhagavat Śākyamuni’s ūrṇā hair a light ray called the light of bodhisattva power accompanied by a retinue of countless hundreds of thousands of light rays. They illuminated all infinite worlds in the ten directions, ended the suffering of all beings in the lower existences, darkened all the palaces of the māras, illuminated the gathered assemblies of all tathāgatas, revealed the range of activity of the buddhas, illuminated the bodhisattvas who had been authorized with the authorization to teach in all the gathered assemblies of tathāgatas in every world throughout all the ten directions, revealed countless manifestations of buddhas, and then formed a network of clouds of light rays as vast kūṭāgāra halls situated in the sky. Then there shone from the ūrṇā hairs of the buddha bhagavats light rays called the light of bodhisattva power, which illuminated the bodhisattvas who had been authorized with the authorization to teach in all the gathered assemblies of tathāgatas in every world throughout all the ten directions; revealed countless manifestations of buddhas; - [Previous: 31.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.31.14) - [Next: 31.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.31.16) - [Up: 31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.31) ## Linked texts (1) - [སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo.31.15) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.31.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.avatamsaka*bo~en-84000.31.15) · Pramāṇa