Thirty-Five More Buddhas
The catalogue's middle stretch, and the vocabulary has shifted. Where the first thirty-five names leaned on dharma and light, this stretch reaches again and again for mountains, clouds, and one particular flower.
A Lotus by Its Sanskrit Name
Nineteen more buddhas, and among them a single name that reaches past the sūtra's usual Chinese vocabulary to a transliterated Sanskrit word for a particular kind of flower.
次有佛興，名：普光明髻；次有佛興，名：法幢燈；次有佛興，名：金剛海幢雲；次有佛興，名：名稱山功德雲；次有佛興，名：栴檀妙月；次有佛興，名：普妙光明華；次有佛興，名：照一切眾生光明王；次有佛興，名：功德蓮華藏；次有佛興，名：香焰光明王；次有佛興，名：波頭摩華因；次有佛興，名：眾相山普光明；次有佛興，名：普名稱幢；
"Next a buddha appeared, named Topknot of Universal Light; next a buddha appeared, named Lamp of the Banner of Dharma; next a buddha appeared, named Cloud of the Banner of the Ocean of Vajra; next a buddha appeared, named Cloud of the Merit of the Mountain of Renown; next a buddha appeared, named Wondrous Moon of Sandalwood; next a buddha appeared, named Flower of Universal Wondrous Light; next a buddha appeared, named King of Light Universally Illuminating All Beings; next a buddha appeared, named Treasury of the Lotus of Merit; next a buddha appeared, named King of the Light of the Flame of Fragrance; next a buddha appeared, named Cause of the Padma Flower; next a buddha appeared, named Universal Light of the Mountain of Every Mark; next a buddha appeared, named Banner of Universal Renown;
次有佛興，名：須彌普門光；次有佛興，名：功德法城光；次有佛興，名：大樹山光明；次有佛興，名：普德光明幢；次有佛興，名：功德吉祥相；次有佛興，名：勇猛法力幢；次有佛興，名：法輪光明音；
next a buddha appeared, named Universal Gate of the Light of Sumeru; next a buddha appeared, named Light of the Dharma-City of Merit; next a buddha appeared, named Light of the Great Tree Mountain; next a buddha appeared, named Banner of the Light of Universal Virtue; next a buddha appeared, named Marks of the Auspiciousness of Merit; next a buddha appeared, named Banner of the Power of Valiant Dharma; next a buddha appeared, named Sound of the Light of the Dharma-Wheel;
波頭摩華因 — Cause of the Padma Flower. Every other name in these ninety-eight buddhas is built from ordinary Chinese vocabulary — light, dharma, mountain, merit. This one alone keeps a transliterated Sanskrit word, 波頭摩 for padma, the red or pink lotus distinguished in this literature from the white 芬陀利 and the blue 優鉢羅. Whatever governed the naming of these ninety-eight buddhas, it let one word through untranslated, the way this translation itself keeps a small number of Sanskrit terms — sarvajñā, Nārāyaṇa — rather than rendering everything into English.
By this point in the list, mountains have become the single most common image: 名稱山, 眾相山, 大樹山, 山智慧光 in names still to come. Where the first thirty-five buddhas leaned on dharma and light, this middle stretch leans on solid, standing things — mountains, cities, trees — as if the catalogue itself were accumulating mass the longer it runs.
Clouds Without End
The final stretch of this part turns to cloud after cloud — a word that, by the end, has practically become this list's own weather.
次有佛興，名：功德山智慧光；次有佛興，名：無上妙法月；次有佛興，名：法蓮華淨光幢；次有佛興，名：寶蓮華光明藏；次有佛興，名：光焰雲山燈；次有佛興，名：普覺華；次有佛興，名：種種功德焰須彌藏；次有佛興，名：圓滿光山王；次有佛興，名：福德雲莊嚴；次有佛興，名：法山雲幢；次有佛興，名：功德山光明；次有佛興，名：法日雲燈王；次有佛興，名：法雲名稱王；次有佛興，名：法輪雲；次有佛興，名：開悟菩提智光幢；次有佛興，名：普照法輪月；
Next a buddha appeared, named Wisdom-Light of the Mountain of Merit; next a buddha appeared, named Moon of the Unsurpassed Wondrous Dharma; next a buddha appeared, named Banner of the Pure Light of the Lotus of Dharma; next a buddha appeared, named Treasury of the Light of the Jewelled Lotus; next a buddha appeared, named Lamp of the Mountain of Cloud of the Flame of Light; next a buddha appeared, named Flower of Universal Awakening; next a buddha appeared, named Treasury of Sumeru of Every Kind of Flame of Merit; next a buddha appeared, named King of the Mountain of Perfect and Complete Light; next a buddha appeared, named Adorned with the Cloud of Merit and Fortune; next a buddha appeared, named Banner of the Cloud of the Mountain of Dharma; next a buddha appeared, named Light of the Mountain of Merit; next a buddha appeared, named King of the Lamp of the Cloud of the Sun of Dharma; next a buddha appeared, named King of the Renown of the Cloud of Dharma; next a buddha appeared, named Cloud of the Dharma-Wheel; next a buddha appeared, named Banner of the Light of Wisdom That Awakens to Bodhi; next a buddha appeared, named Moon That Universally Illumines the Dharma-Wheel;
雲 — cloud — appears in six of these sixteen names: a mountain of cloud of the flame of light, a cloud of merit and fortune, a cloud of the mountain of dharma, the cloud of the sun of dharma, the cloud of renown of dharma, and the cloud of the dharma-wheel. No other single character recurs this densely in any stretch of the ninety-eight. Earlier in this fascicle, Part 1123 gave a single sentence that used 種種, every kind of, thirty-two times running; this catalogue is doing something related at a much smaller scale, letting one word saturate more than a third of a run of names until it starts to feel less like vocabulary and more like the weather these buddhas all appear under.
Part 1140 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-one. Part 1141 completes the catalogue with the final twenty-eight buddhas, names the last of the ninety-eight, and closes the whole list with what she did across every one of these unnamed eons.