འཕགས་པ་འདས་པ་ཆན་པ་རན་པ་ཆ་ཏག་ག་གཟངས་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.65
The Ratnaketu Dhāraṇī notes.65
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65. Literally, “endowed with a cranial protuberance (uṣṇīṣa) that cannot be [fully] seen when looked at.” This alludes to the belief in the wide-ranging powers of the Buddha’s uṣṇīṣa. Since it extends all the way to the realm of gods, thereby enabling the Buddha to control all the realms with his body, its full extent cannot be seen from earth. The Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa elaborates on the powers of the Buddha’s uṣṇīṣa at considerable length. See Dharmachakra Translation Committee, trans., The Noble Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī , Toh 543 (84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2020), 14.2–3 et passim.