Part 342 of the collection · Fascicle 29 of 80 · 十迴向品第二十五之七 · T279

Every Doubt Dispelled, Fascicle 29 Complete

The verse recapitulating the seventh dedication reaches its final couplet — brief, but carrying the weight of everything that came before it. The bodhisattvas described throughout this dedication are named directly at last: true children of the Buddha, born not by ordinary birth but through the Tathāgata's own Dharma, whose skillful dedication dispels every doubt the world could hold.

Translator: Ru-Yi Meditation Center Status: Part 342 — the seventh dedication's verse concludes, fascicle 29 complete Source: Taishō T279 (Śikṣānanda, Tang, 695–699 CE)

True Children of the Buddha

After forty lines tracing giving, equality, emptiness, and the end of discrimination, the verse closes with a single image: not a doctrine to grasp but a lineage to belong to — those "born through the Tathāgata's own Dharma," whose very manner of dedicating what they have accomplished is itself what dispels doubt in the world, rather than any further argument or proof.

Chinese Source

如是真實諸佛子,從於如來法化生,
彼能如是善迴向,世間疑惑悉除滅。」

Ru-Yi Translation

Such true children of the Buddha, born and transformed through the Tathāgata's own Dharma, who are able to dedicate skillfully in this way, extinguish and dispel every doubt and confusion in the world entirely."

Reading note — Ru-Yi Meditation Center

"Born and transformed through the Tathāgata's own Dharma" (從於如來法化生) is the same phrase this project has met before in describing what a good spiritual friend, or the household of the Tathāgata, actually is — not a matter of ordinary lineage but of a birth that happens through hearing and practicing the Dharma itself. The verse's very last claim is that this kind of birth, made visible in skillful dedication, is what settles the world's doubt — not argument, but demonstration.

Part 342 Complete — Fascicle 29 of 80

This closes both the seventh dedication's verse recapitulation and fascicle twenty-nine of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra. Fascicle thirty opens Part 343 with the eighth dedication, "the dedication of the aspect of true suchness" (真如相迴向), continuing the sixth assembly's teaching on the ten dedications within the twenty-fifth chapter of the sūtra.