Part 1185 of the collection · Fascicle 74 of 80 · 入法界品第三十九之十五 · T279

Within a Single Adornment

The ninth and tenth birth-treasuries close the list — a bodhisattva who abides in Vairocana's own wisdom, and one who knows the sequence of every kalpa's forming and dissolving — before a summary folds all ten together into a single bodhisattva able to manifest every kind of adornment within one.

Translator: Ru-Yi Meditation Center Status: Part 1185 — fascicle 74 continues Source: Taishō T279 (Śikṣānanda, Tang, 695–699 CE)

Within a Single Adornment

The last two birth-treasuries close the list of ten, and a summary paragraph folds every one of them back together into what a single bodhisattva who has mastered them all is able to do.

Chinese Source

「云何名:普現莊嚴受生藏?善男子!此菩薩能種種莊嚴無量佛剎,普能化現一切眾生及諸佛身,得無所畏,演清淨法,周流法界,無所障礙;隨其心樂,普使知見,示現種種成菩提行,令生無礙一切智道;如是所作不失其時,而常在三昧毘盧遮那智慧之藏。是為菩薩第九受生藏。「云何名:入如來地受生藏?善男子!此菩薩悉於三世諸如來所受灌頂法,普知一切境界次第。所謂:知一切眾生前際後際沒生次第、一切菩薩修行次第、一切眾生心念次第、三世如來成佛次第、善巧方便說法次第,亦知一切初、中、後際所有諸劫若成若壞名號次第。隨諸眾生所應化度,為現成道功德莊嚴,神通說法,方便調伏。是為菩薩第十受生藏。「佛子!若菩薩摩訶薩,於此十法修習增長圓滿成就,則能於一莊嚴中,現種種莊嚴;如是莊嚴一切國土,開導示悟一切眾生,盡未來劫無有休息;演說一切諸佛法海種種境界、種種成熟,展轉傳來無量諸法;現不思議佛自在力,充滿一切虛空法界;於諸眾生心行海中而轉法輪,於一切世界示現成佛,恒無間斷;以不可說清淨言音說一切法,住無量處通達無礙;以一切法莊嚴道場,隨諸眾生欲解差別而現成佛,開示無量甚深法藏,教化成就一切世間。」

Ru-Yi Translation

"What is meant by the birth-treasury of universally manifesting adornment? Good son, this bodhisattva is able to adorn measureless buddha-lands in every kind of way, and is universally able to manifest transformation-bodies of every being and every buddha; he attains fearlessness, expounds the pure dharma, and moves freely throughout the dharma-realm, without any obstruction; according to what delights their minds, he universally causes beings to know and see, manifesting every kind of practice that accomplishes bodhi, and causing them to give rise to the unobstructed path of all-knowing wisdom; and everything he does never misses its proper season, while he himself forever abides within the treasury of Vairocana's own wisdom in samādhi. This is the bodhisattva's ninth birth-treasury. "What is meant by the birth-treasury of entering the tathāgata's own ground? Good son, this bodhisattva has, at the place of every tathāgata of the three times, received the dharma of consecration, and universally knows the sequence of every realm. That is to say: he knows the sequence of the passing away and taking birth of every being throughout time before and time after; the sequence of the cultivation of every bodhisattva; the sequence of the mental thoughts of every being; the sequence of the buddhas of the three times attaining buddhahood; the sequence of their skilful expounding of the dharma; and he likewise knows the sequence of the names of every kalpa, whether forming or dissolving, throughout the very beginning, the middle, and the very end of time. According to whichever beings should be transformed and delivered, he manifests the merit and adornment of accomplishing the path, teaching through spiritual powers and skilful means, and taming them accordingly. This is the bodhisattva's tenth birth-treasury. "Child of the Buddha, if a bodhisattva-mahāsattva cultivates, increases, and brings these ten dharmas to perfect and complete accomplishment, he is thereby able, within a single adornment, to manifest every kind of adornment; adorning every land in just this way, he guides and awakens every being, to the very end of future kalpas, without ever resting; he expounds the many kinds of realms and many kinds of ripening within the whole ocean of every buddha's dharma, transmitting measureless dharmas on and on without end; he manifests the inconceivable sovereign power of the buddhas, filling the whole of empty space and the dharma-realm entirely; he turns the wheel of the dharma within the ocean of every being's mental conduct, and manifests the accomplishment of buddhahood throughout every world, forever without a single interruption; with a voice of purity beyond all telling, he expounds every dharma, abiding in measureless places and penetrating them without obstruction; with every dharma he adorns the awakening-site, and, according to the differing understanding each being desires, manifests the accomplishment of buddhahood, opening and revealing the measureless and profound treasury of the dharma, and teaching and transforming every being in the world to completion."

Reading note — Ru-Yi Meditation Center

則能於一莊嚴中,現種種莊嚴 — he is thereby able, within a single adornment, to manifest every kind of adornment. This closing line is where the ten separate treasuries stop being separate — mastering all ten in full is described not as gaining ten abilities side by side, but as a single adornment already containing every kind of adornment within it, the same one-within-all logic this whole sūtra's own index page names as its central vision.

Part 1185 Complete

This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-four. Part 1186 opens the garden-spirit's verse, restating the ten birth-treasuries as a hymn.