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16. The description of many-colored lights emitting from buddhas’ mouths when they smile and streaming upward (to the heavens) and downward (to the hells) before returning and being reabsorbed into various parts of the body (relating to what kind of prophecy is being made) is found with various degrees of elaboration in many Kangyur texts. For one such elaborate expression see The Hundred Deeds (Karmaśataka, Toh 340), –. For a shorter expression of this theme, similar to that found here, see The Teaching by the Child Inconceivable Radiance (Acintya­prabhāsa­nirdeśa, Toh 103), .

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