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大毘盧遮那成佛經疏 8.39

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The Sanskrit says *kisalaya*, which refers to flowers together with twigs and leaves on forest trees. Next, it says *puṣpa*, which directly designates the flower body itself. Kinds such as flower garlands and scattered flowers all use this term; hence the preceding line distinguished it with the word 'flower garden'. When the Bodhisattva was first born, there were also boundless auspicious omens and celebrations throughout all worlds, so that countless heavenly hosts gathered in the Lumbinī Grove to make offerings. Furthermore, countless bodhisattvas of inconceivable liberation also descended to be born at the same time, like dark clouds enveloping the moon. You now are also first born within the secret womb; the retinues of all Dharma gates have already sprouted. If you can cultivate with vigorous progress, this too will be your final bodily existence in birth and death; hence it says, 'you now obtain a celebration identical to that'.

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