The Flower Adornment Sutra - Chapter One, Parts Four and Five

Part Four continues with alternating prose and verse sections describing the realizations of the remaining fifteen kinds of spirits as well as their praises of the Buddha. Part Five continues with alternating prose and verse sections describing the realizations of Universal Worthy Bodhisattva and twenty other Bodhisattvas. It then tells how multitudes of Bodhisattvas issue forth from the lion throne, make offerings, and speak verses in praise of the Buddha. The chapter concludes with a display of auspicious portents and reveals that this situation is universal and infinite.