Every Land Filled with Great Bodhisattvas
The dedication turns from adorning a world to populating it: every buddha-land, filled entirely with great bodhisattvas whose nature is true, whose wisdom is penetrating, who accomplish mindfulness of the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṃgha, and who move through the Dharma-realm attached to nothing at all while manifesting everywhere within it. The passage closes on a now-familiar escalating series — from countless through indescribably indescribable — naming the sheer number of such bodhisattvas present in even a single direction of a single land.
True Nature, Attached to Nothing
The bodhisattvas described here are defined almost entirely by paired qualities that would ordinarily seem to work against each other: a mind like empty space, relying on nothing at all, and yet able to discern the entire Dharma-realm; clinging to nothing within any land, and yet able to manifest universally within every buddha-land. This is the same structural pattern the fourth dedication's closing verse built its entire argument on — unattachment that does not diminish engagement but is precisely what makes total engagement possible.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩復以善根如是迴向：『願我所修一切佛剎，諸大菩薩皆悉充滿。其諸菩薩，體性真實，智慧通達，善能分別一切世界及眾生界，深入法界及虛空界，捨離愚癡；成就念佛，念法真實不可思議，念僧無量普皆周遍，亦念於捨；法日圓滿，智光普照，見無所礙；從無得生生諸佛法，為眾勝上善根之主，發生無上菩提之心；住如來力，趣薩婆若，破諸魔業，淨眾生界，深入法性，永離顛倒，善根大願皆悉不空。
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva again dedicates their wholesome root in just this way: 'May every buddha-land that I cultivate be entirely filled with great bodhisattvas.' Those very bodhisattvas, their very nature true and real, their wisdom penetrating and thorough, skillfully able to discern every world and every realm of living beings, deeply entering the Dharma-realm and the realm of empty space, leaving delusion far behind; accomplishing mindfulness of the Buddha; mindfulness of the Dharma, true and real, inconceivable; mindfulness of the Saṃgha, immeasurable and universally pervading everywhere; and likewise mindfulness of relinquishment; the sun of the Dharma fully round and complete, the light of wisdom universally illuminating, their seeing unobstructed by anything at all; born from non-attainment, giving rise to every buddha-dharma, becoming the very lord of every superior and supreme wholesome root among the multitude, giving rise to the mind of unsurpassed bodhi; abiding in the Tathāgata's own power, advancing toward all-knowing wisdom, destroying every deed of Māra, purifying the realm of living beings, deeply entering the nature of dharmas, forever leaving inversion far behind — every wholesome root and every great vow of theirs is, without exception, never in vain.
如是菩薩充滿其土，生如是處，有如是德，常作佛事，得佛菩提清淨光明；具法界智，現神通力，一身充滿一切法界；得大智慧，入一切智所行之境，善能分別無量無邊法界句義；於一切剎皆無所著，而能普現一切佛土；心如虛空，無有所依，而能分別一切法界，善能入出不可思議甚深三昧；趣薩婆若，住諸佛剎，得諸佛力，開示演說阿僧祇法而無所畏；隨順三世諸佛善根，普照一切如來法界，悉能受持一切佛法；知阿僧祇諸語言法，善能演出不可思議差別音聲；入於無上佛自在地，普遊十方一切世界而無障礙；行於無諍、無所依法，無所分別，修習增廣菩提之心；得善巧智，善知句義，能隨次第開示演說。
Bodhisattvas such as these fill that very land entirely, are born in places such as these, possess virtues such as these, forever carry out the Buddha's own work, and attain the pure and radiant light of buddha-bodhi; endowed with the wisdom of the Dharma-realm, manifesting spiritual power, a single body of theirs filling the entire Dharma-realm entirely; attaining great wisdom, entering the very domain traversed by all-knowing wisdom, skillfully able to discern the words and meanings of the immeasurable, boundless Dharma-realm; clinging to nothing at all within any land, and yet able to universally manifest within every buddha-land; their mind like empty space, relying on nothing at all, and yet able to discern the entire Dharma-realm, skillfully able to enter and emerge from the inconceivable, most profound samādhi; advancing toward all-knowing wisdom, abiding within every buddha-land, attaining the power of every buddha, opening up and expounding asaṃkhyeya dharmas without any fear at all; according with the wholesome roots of every buddha of the three periods of time, universally illuminating the entire Dharma-realm of every Tathāgata, able to uphold every buddha-dharma entirely; knowing asaṃkhyeya dharmas of language, skillfully able to give voice to inconceivably distinct sounds; entering the unsurpassed ground of the Buddha's own sovereign freedom, universally journeying throughout every world of the ten directions without any obstruction; practicing the dharma of non-contention and non-reliance, without any discrimination at all, cultivating and expanding the mind of bodhi ever further; attaining skillful wisdom, thoroughly knowing every word and meaning, able to open up and expound them in due sequence.
願令如是諸大菩薩莊嚴其國，充滿分布，隨順安住，熏修、極熏修，純淨、極純淨，恬然宴寂。於一佛剎，隨一方所，皆有如是無數、無量、無邊、無等、不可數、不可稱、不可思、不可量、不可說、不可說不可說諸大菩薩周遍充滿。如一方所，一切方所亦復如是；如一佛剎，盡虛空遍法界一切佛剎悉亦如是。』
May every such great bodhisattva adorn that very land, filling and spreading throughout it, dwelling there in accordance with it, permeated in cultivation, utterly permeated in cultivation, purely pure, utterly purely pure, tranquil and quiescent at rest. Within a single buddha-land, in accordance with a single direction and place, there are, in every case, countless, immeasurable, boundless, unequaled, uncountable, inexpressible, inconceivable, unmeasurable, indescribable, and indescribably indescribable great bodhisattvas, pervading and filling it entirely. Just as with a single direction and place, every direction and place is likewise entirely the same; just as with a single buddha-land, every buddha-land throughout the entire realm of empty space and Dharma-realm is likewise entirely the same."
The list of bodhisattva qualities never settles into a single register — it moves from ethical grounding (true nature, leaving delusion behind) to devotional practice (mindfulness of the Three Jewels) to a philosophical claim about attachment and manifestation, and finally to a claim about sheer scale, that even one direction of one land holds bodhisattvas beyond the reach of the escalating numerical series this sūtra keeps returning to. The dedication asks for all of it — ethics, devotion, wisdom, and scale — filling every land at once, without any one quality substituting for the others.
Part 255 Complete
This closes Part 255. Chapter 25 continues in Part 256 as the bodhisattva dedicates every wholesome root through ten distinct acts of skillful means, toward buddha-lands, bodhisattvas, every Tathāgata, and the deathless vision of buddhas ever arising in the world.