A Bodhisattva Arrives from the Southeast
The sixth arrival offers something with no physical form at all: ten kinds of cloud of perfect, full light, drawn variously from the tathāgata's own bodily marks, jeweled trees, jambūnada gold, and the light of the sun, stars, and moon themselves.
Light Drawn from the Tathāgata's Own Marks
Every offering so far has taken the form of some object — pavilions, garments, mountains — that light merely adorns. Here, for the first time, light itself is the entire offering, and two of its ten sources are named as marks on the tathāgata's own body: the curl of hair between his brows, and the crown-protrusion at the top of his head.
東南方過不可說佛剎微塵數世界海外有世界，名：香雲莊嚴幢，佛號：龍自在王。彼佛眾中有菩薩，名：法慧光焰王，與世界海微塵數菩薩俱，來向佛所，悉以神力興金色圓滿光明雲、無量寶色圓滿光明雲、如來毫相圓滿光明雲、種種寶色圓滿光明雲、蓮華藏圓滿光明雲、眾寶樹枝圓滿光明雲、如來頂髻圓滿光明雲、閻浮檀金色圓滿光明雲、日色圓滿光明雲、星月色圓滿光明雲，悉遍虛空。到佛所已，頂禮佛足，即於東南方化作毘盧遮那最上寶光明樓閣、金剛摩尼蓮華藏師子之座，眾寶光焰摩尼王網羅覆其身，與其眷屬結跏趺坐。
At that time, in the southeast, beyond an ocean of worlds as numerous as unspeakably many fine motes of dust in every buddha-land, there was a world named Fragrant-Cloud Adornment Banner, whose buddha was named Nāga Sovereign King. In that buddha's own assembly there was a bodhisattva named Dharma-Wisdom Blazing-Light King, who, together with bodhisattvas as numerous as fine motes of dust in an ocean of worlds, came toward the place where the Buddha was, raising up through spiritual power alone: clouds of perfect, full golden light; clouds of perfect, full light in every measureless jeweled color; clouds of perfect, full light from the tathāgata's own ūrṇā mark between his brows; clouds of perfect, full light in every kind of jeweled color; clouds of perfect, full light of the lotus-treasury; clouds of perfect, full light from every jeweled tree's own branches; clouds of perfect, full light from the tathāgata's own crown-protrusion; clouds of perfect, full light of jambūnada-gold color; clouds of perfect, full light the color of the sun; and clouds of perfect, full light the color of the stars and moon — pervading the whole of empty space entirely. Having arrived where the Buddha was, they bowed in reverence at his feet, and then, in the southeast, conjured a pavilion of Vairocana's own most excellent jeweled light, together with a lion-seat of vajra maṇi lotus-treasury; covered their own bodies with nets of every jeweled blazing-light maṇi king; and sat down cross-legged there together with their own retinues.
如來毫相圓滿光明雲、……如來頂髻圓滿光明雲 — clouds of perfect, full light from the tathāgata's own ūrṇā mark, and from his own crown-protrusion. These two clouds draw their light directly from features named among the tathāgata's own thirty-two marks, quietly connecting this procession of offerings back to an earlier passage in this same sūtra devoted entirely to the ocean of marks on the tathāgata's ten bodies.
Part 843 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty. Part 844 turns to the southwest, where a bodhisattva arrives whose offering emerges from his own pores rather than being raised into the sky.