Ten Fragrances of Perfumed Unguent
The litany of gifts turns to what can be smelled rather than seen or tasted: garlands dedicated toward becoming someone others delight to behold, incense toward ten named qualities of moral discipline, and perfumed unguent toward ten distinct fragrances that trace the six perfections and beyond — giving, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom, followed by Dharma, virtue, bodhi, and the pure white dharma that extinguishes everything unwholesome.
What Cannot Be Seen, Only Sensed
Fragrance suits this dedication's closing image especially well: unlike a flower or a garland, a scent has no visible edge, no boundary that marks where it stops. The ten fragrances of perfumed unguent make this literal — each quality named is one that "universally perfumes" (普熏) rather than merely appears, spreading through the six perfections and past them toward Dharma, virtue, bodhi, and finally the pure white dharma that extinguishes everything unwholesome without exception.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩布施鬘時，以諸善根如是迴向，所謂：『願一切眾生人所樂見，見者欽歎，見者親善，見者愛樂，見者渴仰，見者除憂，見者生喜，見者離惡，見者常得親近於佛，見者清淨獲一切智。』是為菩薩摩訶薩布施鬘時善根迴向。
"Child of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives garlands, they dedicate every wholesome root in just this way: 'May every living being become one whom others delight to see, whom those who see them admire and praise, whom those who see them befriend with kindness, whom those who see them love and delight in, whom those who see them thirst to behold, from whom those who see them have their sorrow removed, in whom those who see them feel joy arise, through whom those who see them leave evil behind, through whom those who see them forever draw near to the Buddha, and through whom those who see them attain purity and gain all-knowing wisdom.' This is the bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of the wholesome root when giving garlands.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩布施香時，以諸善根如是迴向：『願一切眾生具足戒香，得不缺戒、不雜戒、不污戒、無悔戒、離纏戒、無熱戒、無犯戒、無邊戒、出世戒、菩薩波羅蜜戒；願一切眾生以是戒故，皆得成就諸佛戒身。』是為菩薩摩訶薩布施香時善根迴向，為令眾生悉得圓滿無礙戒蘊故。
Child of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives incense, they dedicate every wholesome root in just this way: "May every living being be fully endowed with the fragrance of moral discipline, attaining the discipline that is unbroken, the discipline that is unmixed, the discipline that is undefiled, the discipline free of regret, the discipline free of every entanglement, the discipline free of any feverish affliction, the discipline free of any transgression, the discipline that is boundless, the discipline that transcends the world, and the discipline that is the bodhisattva's own perfection; may every living being, through this very discipline, accomplish the discipline-body of every buddha entirely." This is the bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of the wholesome root when giving incense; it is done so that every living being attains the fully complete, unobstructed aggregate of discipline entirely.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩施塗香時，以諸善根如是迴向，所謂：『願一切眾生施香普熏，悉能惠捨一切所有；願一切眾生戒香普熏，得於如來究竟淨戒；願一切眾生忍香普熏，離於一切險害之心；願一切眾生精進香普熏，常服大乘精進甲冑；願一切眾生定香普熏，安住諸佛現前三昧；願一切眾生慧香普熏，一念得成無上智王；願一切眾生法香普熏，於無上法得無所畏；願一切眾生德香普熏，成就一切大功德智；願一切眾生菩提香普熏，得佛十力到於彼岸；願一切眾生清淨白法妙香普熏，永滅一切不善之法。』是為菩薩摩訶薩施塗香時善根迴向。
Child of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives perfumed unguent, they dedicate every wholesome root in just this way: "May every living being be universally perfumed with the fragrance of giving, able to generously relinquish everything they possess entirely; may every living being be universally perfumed with the fragrance of discipline, attaining the Tathāgata's own ultimate, pure discipline; may every living being be universally perfumed with the fragrance of patience, leaving behind every perilous and harmful mind; may every living being be universally perfumed with the fragrance of diligence, forever wearing the armor of the Mahāyāna's own diligence; may every living being be universally perfumed with the fragrance of concentration, abiding within every buddha's own samādhi manifest before them; may every living being be universally perfumed with the fragrance of wisdom, attaining, within a single thought, the status of an unsurpassed king of wisdom; may every living being be universally perfumed with the fragrance of Dharma, attaining fearlessness within the unsurpassed Dharma; may every living being be universally perfumed with the fragrance of virtue, accomplishing the wisdom of every great merit; may every living being be universally perfumed with the fragrance of bodhi, attaining the ten powers of the Buddha and reaching the very far shore; may every living being be universally perfumed with the wondrous fragrance of the pure, white dharma, forever extinguishing every unwholesome dharma." This is the bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of the wholesome root when giving perfumed unguent.
The ten fragrances open with the six perfections in their standard order — giving, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, wisdom — before extending four further: Dharma, virtue, bodhi, and the pure white dharma. Fragrance does not merely represent these qualities; it names how they are meant to work in someone who has them, spreading outward past the boundary of any single deed, the way a scent moves through a room without anyone having to carry it there.
Part 265 Complete
This closes Part 265. Chapter 25 continues in Part 266 as the litany of specific gifts continues with thrones and seats, each again paired with its own distinct dedication.