Twenty Vehicles, Vehicle-Giving Closes
The dedication that closes this fascicle's extended treatment of vehicle-giving names twenty distinct vehicles — a four-wheeled vehicle built from a good land, good friends, gathered merit, and a great vow; each of the six perfections given its own vehicle in turn; and a final vehicle that fulfills Samantabhadra Bodhisattva's own practice and vow without ever growing weary. The literal carts given throughout this passage have, by its end, become nothing but a name for the entire bodhisattva path.
Every Practice Named a Vehicle
Across nine parts and every kind of recipient — buddhas, teachers, the saṃgha, the destitute — a single image has carried the whole of the sixth dedication's opening movement: the vehicle. This closing list makes the metaphor explicit by exhausting it, naming giving, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom each as its own vehicle, before folding every one of them into a single vehicle that fulfills Samantabhadra's own vow. What began as literal carts of gold and jewel closes as the entire practice of a bodhisattva, renamed.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以如是等無量寶車，隨其所求，恭敬施與，皆令遂願，歡喜滿足；以此善根如是迴向，所謂：『願一切眾生乘不退轉無障礙輪廣大之乘，詣不可議菩提樹下；願一切眾生乘清淨因大法智乘，盡未來劫，修菩薩行永不退轉；願一切眾生乘一切法無所有乘，永離一切分別執著，而常修習一切智道；願一切眾生乘無諂誑正直之乘，往諸佛剎，自在無礙；願一切眾生隨順安住一切智乘，以諸佛法共相娛樂；願一切眾生皆乘菩薩清淨行乘，具足菩薩十出離道及三昧樂；願一切眾生乘四輪乘，所謂住好國土、依止善人、集勝福德、發大誓願，以此成滿一切菩薩清淨梵行；願一切眾生得普照十方法光明乘，修學一切如來智力；願一切眾生乘佛法乘，到一切法究竟彼岸；願一切眾生載眾福善難思法乘，普示十方安隱正道。』
"Child of the Buddha! With immeasurable jeweled carts such as these, the bodhisattva mahāsattva, according with whatever is asked for, reverently gives them, entirely fulfilling every wish, joyfully satisfying every one. They dedicate this very wholesome root in just this way, namely: 'May every living being ride the vast vehicle of the non-retrogressing, unobstructed wheel, arriving beneath the inconceivable bodhi tree; may every living being ride the vehicle of the great Dharma-wisdom whose cause is pure, cultivating the bodhisattva practice throughout every kalpa to the very end of the future, forever without retrogression; may every living being ride the vehicle in which every dharma possesses nothing at all, forever leaving behind every discrimination and attachment, yet forever cultivating and practicing the path of all-knowing wisdom; may every living being ride the vehicle of uprightness free of flattery and deceit, going to every buddha-land, sovereign and unobstructed; may every living being abide in accordance with the vehicle of all-knowing wisdom, delighting together in every buddha-dharma; may every living being all ride the vehicle of the bodhisattva's own pure practice, fully endowed with the bodhisattva's own ten paths of escape and the bliss of samādhi; may every living being ride the vehicle of four wheels — namely, abiding in a good land, relying upon good people, gathering supreme merit, and giving rise to a great vow — and through these bring every bodhisattva's own pure practice of the holy life to complete fulfillment; may every living being attain the vehicle of Dharma-light universally illuminating the ten directions, cultivating and studying the power of every Tathāgata's own wisdom; may every living being ride the vehicle of the buddha-dharma, reaching the very far shore of every dharma's own ultimate end; may every living being carry the inconceivable Dharma-vehicle of every kind of merit and goodness, universally showing the true and peaceful path to the ten directions.'
『願一切眾生乘大施乘，捨慳吝垢；願一切眾生乘淨戒乘，持等法界無邊淨戒；願一切眾生乘忍辱乘，常於眾生離瞋濁心；願一切眾生乘大精進不退轉乘，堅修勝行，趣菩提道；願一切眾生乘禪定乘，速至道場，證菩提智；願一切眾生乘於智慧巧方便乘，化身充滿一切法界、諸佛境界；願一切眾生乘法王乘，成就無畏，恒普惠施一切智法；願一切眾生乘無所著智慧之乘，悉能遍入一切十方，於真法性而無所動；願一切眾生乘於一切諸佛法乘，示現受生遍十方剎，而不失壞大乘之道；願一切眾生乘一切智最上寶乘，滿足普賢菩薩行願而無厭倦。』是為菩薩摩訶薩以眾寶車施諸福田乃至貧窮、孤露之人善根迴向；為令眾生具無量智，歡喜踊躍，究竟皆得一切智乘故。
"May every living being ride the vehicle of great giving, relinquishing the stain of stinginess and miserliness; may every living being ride the vehicle of pure discipline, upholding pure discipline equal to the boundless Dharma-realm; may every living being ride the vehicle of patience, forever leaving behind an angry, turbid mind toward every living being; may every living being ride the vehicle of great diligence that never retrogresses, firmly cultivating supreme practice, advancing toward the path of bodhi; may every living being ride the vehicle of meditative concentration, swiftly reaching the place of enlightenment, realizing the wisdom of bodhi; may every living being ride the vehicle of wisdom and skillful means, their transformation-bodies filling the entire Dharma-realm and every buddha's own state; may every living being ride the vehicle of the Dharma-king, accomplishing fearlessness, forever universally bestowing the dharma of all-knowing wisdom; may every living being ride the vehicle of wisdom that clings to nothing at all, able to enter every one of the ten directions entirely, unmoved within the true nature of dharmas; may every living being ride the vehicle of every buddha's own Dharma, manifesting the receiving of birth throughout every land of the ten directions, yet never losing or destroying the path of the Mahāyāna; may every living being ride the most supreme, precious vehicle of all-knowing wisdom, fulfilling Samantabhadra Bodhisattva's own practice and vow without ever growing weary." This is the bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of the wholesome root of giving jeweled carts to every field of merit, down even to the poor and the destitute; it is done so that living beings are endowed with immeasurable wisdom, leaping with joy, and ultimately all attain the vehicle of all-knowing wisdom.
The six perfections appear here not in the usual order but interleaved with vehicles of a different kind — the vehicle of the non-retrogressing wheel, the vehicle free of flattery, the four-wheeled vehicle of circumstance and vow. Reading giving, discipline, and patience alongside these less familiar vehicles suggests that the perfections are not a separate, more advanced curriculum layered on top of ordinary virtues, but one register among several in which the very same journey can be described.
Part 276 Complete
This closes Part 276 and the sixth dedication's extended vehicle-giving passage. Chapter 25 continues in Part 277 as the litany of specific gifts turns to elephants and horses, given to parents, good spiritual friends, and the poor and suffering alike.