Every Jewel, Opened
After thrones, canopies, and banners each described at length, this gift is almost bare by comparison: a treasury simply opened, and hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of wondrous, rare treasures given to countless sentient beings, freely, without any reluctance of mind. The ten dedication-vows that follow more than make up for the brevity, naming jewel after jewel — of buddha, of Dharma, of saṃgha, of wisdom, of merit, of the field of merit itself.
The Three Jewels, and Every Jewel Beyond Them
The first three vows name the Three Jewels directly — buddha, Dharma, saṃgha — before the dedication moves on to jewels that are not, in the usual sense, jewels at all: the mind of omniscience, wisdom itself, the sixteen wisdoms of samādhi, even the field of merit. By the tenth vow, the wished-for jewel has become "the foremost, unsurpassed lord of jewels," expounding every dharma with inexhaustible eloquence — treasure that gives rather than merely shines.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩開眾寶藏，以百千億那由他諸妙珍寶，給施無數一切眾生，隨意與之，心無吝惜；以諸善根如是迴向，所謂：『願一切眾生常見佛寶，捨離愚癡，修行正念；願一切眾生皆得具足法寶光明，護持一切諸佛法藏；願一切眾生能悉攝受一切僧寶，周給供養，恒無厭足；願一切眾生得一切智無上心寶，淨菩提心，無有退轉；願一切眾生得智慧寶，普入諸法，心無疑惑；願一切眾生具足菩薩諸功德寶，開示演說無量智慧；願一切眾生得於無量妙功德寶，修成正覺十力智慧；願一切眾生得妙三昧十六智寶，究竟成滿廣大智慧；願一切眾生成就第一福田之寶，悟入如來無上智慧；願一切眾生得成第一無上寶主，以無盡辯開演諸法。』是為菩薩摩訶薩施眾寶時善根迴向，為令一切眾生皆得成滿第一智寶、如來無礙淨眼寶故。
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva opens a great treasury of jewels, and with hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of wondrous, rare treasures, gives to countless sentient beings entirely, bestowing them according to their wishes, their mind never begrudging. With every wholesome root, they dedicate it in this way, namely: 'May all sentient beings forever behold the jewel of the Buddha, relinquish ignorance, and cultivate right mindfulness; may all sentient beings all obtain the full radiance of the jewel of the Dharma, upholding and protecting the Dharma-treasury of every buddha; may all sentient beings be able to entirely embrace the jewel of the saṃgha, offering to it completely and forever without weariness or satiation; may all sentient beings obtain the unsurpassed jewel of the mind of omniscience, purifying the bodhi-mind without ever regressing; may all sentient beings obtain the jewel of wisdom, universally entering every dharma, their minds free of doubt; may all sentient beings be fully endowed with every jewel of a bodhisattva's merit, opening, revealing, and expounding immeasurable wisdom; may all sentient beings obtain the immeasurable, wondrous jewel of merit, cultivating and accomplishing the wisdom of the ten powers of true awakening; may all sentient beings obtain the wondrous jewel of the sixteen wisdoms of samādhi, ultimately fulfilling vast and great wisdom; may all sentient beings accomplish the foremost jewel of the field of merit, awaken and enter the Tathāgata's own unsurpassed wisdom; may all sentient beings attain the foremost, unsurpassed lord of jewels, expounding every dharma with inexhaustible eloquence.' This is the bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of wholesome roots when giving every jewel, so that all sentient beings may all fully accomplish the foremost jewel of wisdom, the Tathāgata's own unobstructed, pure eye-jewel.
"Their mind never begrudging" is a small phrase easy to pass over, but it is doing real work: everything so far in this dedication has been elaborate description of the gift itself, while here the text pauses instead on the giver's interior state. A treasury opened freely, without any flicker of reluctance, is itself already most of what these ten vows go on to name as jewels.
Part 283 Complete
This closes the section on giving jewels (施眾寶) within the sixth dedication. Chapter 25 continues in Part 284 as the bodhisattva mahāsattva takes up the giving of ornaments.