Every Ornament, for Every Being Alike
The bodhisattva mahāsattva gives every kind of bodily ornament, and the passage pauses to name the motive directly: regarding every sentient being throughout the world as though each were an only child, wishing them bodily purity, the world's most supreme happiness, and the happiness of buddha-wisdom together. Ten dedication-vows follow, each naming a different "mark of adornment" — of the body, of speech, of mind, of dhāraṇī, of wisdom — until adornment itself becomes indistinguishable from the qualities of a buddha.
An Only Child, Adorned
Where the earlier gifts in this dedication moved outward — thrones, canopies, banners, treasuries — this one turns toward the body of the recipient directly, and the text names the reason with unusual tenderness: the bodhisattva regards all beings as an only child. The ten vows that follow trace adornment moving inward, mark by mark, from physical beauty to speech, to mind, to the totality of the Dharma itself.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩或以種種妙莊嚴具而為布施。所謂：一切身莊嚴具，令身淨妙，靡不稱可。菩薩摩訶薩等觀一切世間眾生，猶如一子，欲令皆得身淨莊嚴，成就世間最上安樂、佛智慧樂，安住佛法，利益眾生。以如是等百千億那由他種種殊妙寶莊嚴具，勤行布施。行布施時，以諸善根如是迴向，所謂：『願一切眾生成就無上妙莊嚴具，以諸清淨功德智慧莊嚴人天；願一切眾生得清淨莊嚴相，以淨福德莊嚴其身；願一切眾生得上妙莊嚴相，以百福相莊嚴其身；願一切眾生得不雜亂莊嚴相，以一切相莊嚴其身；願一切眾生得善淨語言莊嚴相，具足種種無盡辯才；願一切眾生得一切功德聲莊嚴相，其音清淨，聞者喜悅；願一切眾生得可愛樂諸佛語言莊嚴相，令諸眾生聞法歡喜修清淨行；願一切眾生得心莊嚴相，入深禪定，普見諸佛；願一切眾生得總持莊嚴相，照明一切諸佛正法；願一切眾生得智慧莊嚴相，以佛智慧莊嚴其心。』是為菩薩摩訶薩惠施一切莊嚴具時善根迴向；為令眾生具足一切無量佛法，功德智慧圓滿莊嚴，永離一切憍慢放逸故。
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva may also give every kind of wondrous ornament. Namely: every ornament for the body, making the body pure and wondrous, befitting in every way. The bodhisattva mahāsattva regards every sentient being throughout the world equally, as though each were their only child, wishing that all obtain bodily purity and adornment, accomplish the world's most supreme happiness and the happiness of buddha-wisdom, abide securely in the Buddha-dharma, and benefit sentient beings. With such hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of rare and wondrous jeweled ornaments as these, they diligently practice giving. While practicing giving, with every wholesome root, they dedicate it in this way, namely: 'May all sentient beings accomplish the unsurpassed, wondrous ornament, adorning gods and humans with every pure merit and wisdom; may all sentient beings obtain the pure mark of adornment, adorning their own bodies with pure merit; may all sentient beings obtain the supreme, wondrous mark of adornment, adorning their own bodies with marks born of a hundred blessings; may all sentient beings obtain the unmixed, unconfused mark of adornment, adorning their own bodies with every mark; may all sentient beings obtain the wholesome and pure mark of speech-adornment, fully endowed with every kind of inexhaustible eloquence; may all sentient beings obtain the mark of sound adorned with every merit, their voice pure, delighting all who hear it; may all sentient beings obtain the lovable and joyful mark of every buddha's speech-adornment, causing all sentient beings, upon hearing the Dharma, to rejoice and cultivate pure practice; may all sentient beings obtain the mark of mind-adornment, entering profound meditative concentration, universally beholding every buddha; may all sentient beings obtain the mark of dhāraṇī-adornment, illuminating the true Dharma of every buddha; may all sentient beings obtain the mark of wisdom-adornment, adorning their own minds with buddha-wisdom.' This is the bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of wholesome roots when kindly giving every ornament; it is so that sentient beings may be fully endowed with every immeasurable Buddha-dharma, their merit and wisdom perfectly and completely adorned, forever leaving behind every kind of pride and heedlessness.
The closing purpose clause names what all this adornment is finally against: pride and heedlessness. An ornament, in ordinary use, easily becomes an occasion for exactly those two faults — something worn to be admired, to be compared. Here the entire logic is reversed: every mark of adornment is dedicated toward a state in which pride has nowhere left to attach itself.
Part 284 Complete
This closes the section on giving ornaments (施莊嚴具) within the sixth dedication. Chapter 25 continues in Part 285 as the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives away the maṇi crown and crest-jewel received at royal consecration.