Ten Inexhaustible Treasuries
The sūtra formally names what has been described across the preceding parts: the bodhisattva mahāsattva's fifth dedication, the dedication of the inexhaustible treasury of merit. Ten distinct inexhaustible treasuries follow — seeing buddhas within a single pore, entering the Dharma, remembering and upholding, decisive wisdom, understanding meaning, boundless understanding, merit, courageous wisdom, decisive eloquence, and the ten powers with fearlessness — each paired with the specific reason it never runs dry. Vajra Banner Bodhisattva then rises to speak this dedication's closing verse.
Named at Last
As with the fourth dedication, this formal naming arrives only after the dedication's substance has already been fully demonstrated across many parts — confession, rejoicing, buddha-land adornment, populating lands with bodhisattvas, skillful-means dedication, and the direct seeing that no person can be found in any dharma. The ten treasuries that follow read almost as a summary of everything shown so far, each one now given its own name and its own reason for never running dry.
「佛子！是名菩薩摩訶薩第五無盡功德藏迴向。菩薩摩訶薩住此迴向，得十種無盡藏。何等為十？所謂：得見佛無盡藏，於一毛孔見阿僧祇諸佛出興世故；得入法無盡藏，以佛智力觀一切法悉入一法故；得憶持無盡藏，受持一切佛所說法無忘失故；得決定慧無盡藏，善知一切佛所說法祕密方便故；得解義趣無盡藏，善知諸法理趣分齊故；得無邊悟解無盡藏，以如虛空智通達三世一切法故；得福德無盡藏，充滿一切諸眾生意不可盡故；得勇猛智覺無盡藏，悉能除滅一切眾生愚癡翳故；得決定辯才無盡藏，演說一切佛平等法令諸眾生悉解了故；得十力無畏無盡藏，具足一切菩薩所行，以離垢繒而繫其頂，至無障礙一切智故。是為十。佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以一切善根迴向時，得此十種無盡藏。」
"Child of the Buddha! This is called the bodhisattva mahāsattva's fifth dedication, the dedication of the inexhaustible treasury of merit. When the bodhisattva mahāsattva abides in this dedication, they attain ten kinds of inexhaustible treasury. What are the ten? Namely: they attain the inexhaustible treasury of seeing buddhas, because within a single pore they see asaṃkhyeya buddhas arising in the world; they attain the inexhaustible treasury of entering the Dharma, because through the Buddha's own power of wisdom they contemplate that every dharma enters entirely into a single dharma; they attain the inexhaustible treasury of remembering and upholding, because they uphold every dharma spoken by every buddha without ever forgetting it; they attain the inexhaustible treasury of decisive wisdom, because they thoroughly know the secret, skillful means of every dharma spoken by every buddha; they attain the inexhaustible treasury of understanding meaning and purport, because they thoroughly know the principle, purport, and precise distinctions of every dharma; they attain the inexhaustible treasury of boundless understanding, because through wisdom like empty space they penetrate and understand every dharma of the three periods of time; they attain the inexhaustible treasury of merit, because it fills the intention of every living being inexhaustibly; they attain the inexhaustible treasury of courageous wisdom and awakening, because they are able to entirely eliminate the cataract of delusion from every living being; they attain the inexhaustible treasury of decisive eloquence, because they expound the equal Dharma of every buddha, causing every living being to understand it entirely; they attain the inexhaustible treasury of the ten powers and fearlessnesses, being fully endowed with every bodhisattva practice, their crown bound with the stainless silken cord, reaching the unobstructed all-knowing wisdom. These are the ten. Child of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva mahāsattva dedicates every wholesome root in just this way, they attain these ten kinds of inexhaustible treasury."
爾時，金剛幢菩薩普觀十方而說頌言：
At that time, Vajra Banner Bodhisattva universally surveyed the ten directions and then spoke a verse, saying:
The tenth treasury closes on an image distinct from the other nine: the crown bound with a stainless silken cord, the classical image of a bodhisattva's consecration at the threshold of buddhahood. Placed last, after nine treasuries of seeing, understanding, and expounding, it reframes everything before it as preparation for that very consecration — the inexhaustible treasury of merit turns out to be inexhaustible because it is building, all along, toward this.
Part 258 Complete
This closes Part 258 and the prose exposition of the fifth dedication. Chapter 25 continues in Part 259 as Vajra Banner Bodhisattva's closing verse opens.