Countless Fragrant Everything
The bodhisattva contemplates every buddha throughout the entire Dharma-realm and every kalpa of the past, future, and present, each bearing immeasurable names, each abiding in their own lifespan to the very end of the future. Toward every one of these buddhas, the bodhisattva begins an extensive dedication of countless fragrant offerings — canopies, banners, curtains, thrones, walking-paths, worlds, mountains, seas, rivers, trees, garments, lotus flowers, and palaces, each rendered entirely in fragrance.
An Entire World, Rendered in Fragrance
Where the previous chapter's offerings moved through categories of jewels, flowers, and adornments in turn, this litany takes a single material — fragrance — and renders an entire cosmos out of it: not just fragrant canopies and banners, but fragrant mountains, fragrant seas, fragrant rivers, and fragrant palaces, as though an entire world's geography could be reconstituted from scent alone.
復作是念：『盡法界、虛空界，去、來、現在一切劫中，諸佛世尊得一切智、成菩提道，無量名字各各差別，於種種時現成正覺，悉皆住壽盡未來際，一一各以法界莊嚴而嚴其身，道場眾會周遍法界，一切國土隨時出興而作佛事。
Again they give rise to this thought: "Throughout the entire Dharma-realm and realm of empty space, throughout every kalpa of the past, future, and present, every buddha, every World-Honored One, has attained all-knowing wisdom and accomplished the path of bodhi, each with immeasurable names, each one different from the rest, manifesting true and complete awakening at every different time, every one of them abiding in their own lifespan to the very end of the future; each and every one adorns their own body with the adornment of the Dharma-realm itself, their place of enlightenment and assembly pervading the entire Dharma-realm, arising at the proper time in every land to carry out the Buddha's own work.
如是一切諸佛如來，我以善根普皆迴向，願以無數香蓋、無數香幢、無數香幡、無數香帳、無數香網、無數香像、無數香光、無數香焰、無數香雲、無數香座、無數香經行地、無數香所住處、無數香世界、無數香山、無數香海、無數香河、無數香樹、無數香衣服、無數香蓮華、無數香宮殿，
Toward every such buddha and Tathāgata, I dedicate my own wholesome root universally and entirely, wishing to offer countless fragrant canopies, countless fragrant banners, countless fragrant pennants, countless fragrant curtains, countless fragrant nets, countless fragrant images, countless fragrant lights, countless fragrant flames, countless fragrant clouds, countless fragrant thrones, countless fragrant walking-paths, countless fragrant dwelling-places, countless fragrant worlds, countless fragrant mountains, countless fragrant seas, countless fragrant rivers, countless fragrant trees, countless fragrant garments, countless fragrant lotus flowers, and countless fragrant palaces,
"Each with immeasurable names, each one different from the rest" is worth pausing on amid this litany's scale — even across every kalpa of the past, future, and present, the sūtra insists that no buddha's name repeats or blurs into another's. The offering that follows extends the same principle from persons to things: fragrance is not one undifferentiated substance but takes the specific form of a canopy, a mountain, a river, or a palace, each fully itself rather than a generic instance of "fragrant."
Part 247 Complete
This closes Part 247. Chapter 25 continues in Part 248 as the litany continues with immeasurable flower canopies and palaces, boundless garland canopies and palaces, and an escalating series of numerical qualifiers — unequaled, uncountable, incalculable, inconceivable — applied to jeweled and maṇi offerings beyond number.