The Tathāgata's Own Boundless Activity
Picking up directly from Part 365's list of a bodhisattva's own path, the litany completes itself by turning from the bodhisattva who has just defeated Māra to the Tathāgata that bodhisattva becomes — radiating light through the ten directions from the seat of enlightenment, manifesting immeasurable spiritual transformations, roaring the lion's roar of great nirvāṇa — before opening an entirely new list: nine kinds of utterly subtle wisdom regarding the sentient-being-realm itself.
Eleven Kinds of Utterly Subtle Wisdom, and Their Fruit
This passage completes the long sentence begun in Part 365, moving from a bodhisattva's own final acts — the seven steps, the going forth, the seat beneath the bodhi tree — directly into eleven "utterly subtle" workings of the Tathāgata that bodhisattva becomes, and then into a cascade of shorter clauses describing what such comprehension itself produces: purity, wisdom without regression, and a vow never to abandon any sentient being.
如來坐菩提座放大光明照十方界甚微細、如來示現無量神變甚微細、如來師子吼大涅槃甚微細、如來調伏一切眾生而無所礙甚微細、如來不思議自在力如金剛菩提心甚微細、如來普護念一切世間境界甚微細、如來普於一切世界施作佛事盡未來劫而無休息甚微細、如來無礙神力周遍法界甚微細、如來於盡虛空界一切世界普現成佛調伏眾生甚微細、如來於一佛身現無量佛身甚微細、如來於去來今三世中皆處道場自在智甚微細——如是等一切微細悉能了知；成就清淨，普能示現一切世間；於念念中增長智慧，圓滿不退；善巧方便修菩薩行，無有休息；成就普賢迴向之地，具足一切如來功德，永不厭捨菩薩所行，出生菩薩現前境界；無量方便皆悉清淨，普欲安隱一切眾生；修菩薩行，成就菩薩大威德地，得諸菩薩心之樂欲，獲金剛幢迴向之門，出生法界諸功德藏，常為諸佛之所護念；入諸菩薩深妙法門，演說一切真實之義，於法善巧無所違失，起大誓願不捨眾生；於一念中盡知一切心、非心地境界之藏，於非心處示生於心；遠離語言，安住智慧，同諸菩薩所行之行，以自在力示成佛道，盡未來際常無休息；一切世間眾生劫數，妄想言說之所建立，神通願力悉能示現。
The utterly subtle wisdom of the Tathāgata's own sitting at the seat of enlightenment, radiating great light throughout the ten directions, the utterly subtle wisdom of the Tathāgata's own manifestation of immeasurable spiritual transformations, the utterly subtle wisdom of the Tathāgata's own lion's roar of great nirvāṇa, the utterly subtle wisdom of the Tathāgata's own taming of every sentient being without any obstruction, the utterly subtle wisdom of the Tathāgata's own inconceivable sovereign power, like a vajra mind of enlightenment, the utterly subtle wisdom of the Tathāgata's own universal, mindful protection of every worldly domain, the utterly subtle wisdom of the Tathāgata's own universal performance of a buddha's own work throughout every world, to the very end of future kalpas, without rest, the utterly subtle wisdom of the Tathāgata's own unobstructed spiritual power pervading the dharma-realm, the utterly subtle wisdom of the Tathāgata's own universal manifestation, throughout every world to the very ends of empty space, of becoming a buddha and taming sentient beings, the utterly subtle wisdom of the Tathāgata's own manifestation of immeasurable buddha-bodies within a single buddha-body, and the utterly subtle wisdom of the Tathāgata's own sovereign wisdom of abiding at the seat of enlightenment throughout the three times of past, future, and present — all such utterly subtle things as these, he is entirely able to comprehend; accomplishing purity, universally able to manifest throughout every world; thought after thought his wisdom growing, fulfilled and never regressing; with skillful means cultivating a bodhisattva's own practice, without any rest; accomplishing the ground of Samantabhadra's own dedication, fully endowed with every Tathāgata's own merit, never wearying of or abandoning a bodhisattva's own practice, giving rise to a bodhisattva's own manifest domain; immeasurable skillful means, all of them entirely pure, universally wishing to bring peace and security to every sentient being; cultivating a bodhisattva's own practice, accomplishing the ground of a bodhisattva's own great majestic virtue, attaining every bodhisattva's own delight of mind, obtaining the gate of the Vajra Banner's own dedication, giving rise to the treasury of every merit throughout the dharma-realm, forever mindfully protected by every buddha; entering every bodhisattva's own profound and wondrous Dharma gate, expounding the true meaning of everything, skillful in the Dharma without the slightest error, raising a great vow never to abandon sentient beings; within a single thought entirely knowing the treasury of every mind and every domain that is not mind, manifesting the arising of mind at the very place that is not mind; far removed from language, abiding securely in wisdom, sharing in the very practice that every bodhisattva practices, manifesting the attainment of buddhahood through sovereign power, forever without rest to the very end of future time; every worldly sentient being's own count of kalpas, established through deluded thought and speech, he is entirely able to manifest through the power of spiritual transformation and vow.
The passage moves without a seam from a bodhisattva defeating Māra's armies to the Tathāgata that bodhisattva has become — the list simply continues, item after item, as though buddhahood were not a different category of being but the next entry on the same list. This mirrors a claim the sūtra makes elsewhere in doctrine: that the first arising of the mind of enlightenment and complete awakening are, at the deepest level, not two.
Nine Kinds of Utterly Subtle Wisdom of the Sentient-Being-Realm
A new list opens: nine ways of knowing the sentient-being-realm itself with utterly subtle wisdom — its discrimination, its speech, its attachment, its differing and its shared kinds, its immeasurable destinies, its inconceivable deeds, and both its defilement and its purity, each known completely and put to use in teaching.
以無著無縛解脫心，修普賢行，得一切眾生界甚微細智，所謂：眾生界分別甚微細智、眾生界言說甚微細智、眾生界執著甚微細智、眾生界異類甚微細智、眾生界同類甚微細智、眾生界無量趣甚微細智、眾生界不思議種種分別所作甚微細智、眾生界無量雜染甚微細智、眾生界無量清淨甚微細智——如是等一切眾生界境界甚微細，於一念中能以智慧皆如實知；廣攝眾生而為說法，開示種種清淨法門，令修菩薩廣大智慧；化身無量，見者歡喜，以智日光照菩薩心，令其開悟智慧自在。
With a mind of non-attachment, non-bondage, and liberation, he cultivates Samantabhadra's own practice, attaining the utterly subtle wisdom of the sentient-being-realm entire, namely: the utterly subtle wisdom of the sentient-being-realm's own discrimination, the utterly subtle wisdom of the sentient-being-realm's own speech, the utterly subtle wisdom of the sentient-being-realm's own attachment, the utterly subtle wisdom of the sentient-being-realm's own differing kinds, the utterly subtle wisdom of the sentient-being-realm's own shared kinds, the utterly subtle wisdom of the sentient-being-realm's own immeasurable destinies, the utterly subtle wisdom of the sentient-being-realm's own inconceivable, various discriminating deeds, the utterly subtle wisdom of the sentient-being-realm's own immeasurable defilement, and the utterly subtle wisdom of the sentient-being-realm's own immeasurable purity — all such utterly subtle domains of the sentient-being-realm as these, within a single thought he is entirely able, with wisdom, to know exactly as they are; broadly gathering in sentient beings and expounding the Dharma for them, opening up every kind of pure Dharma gate, causing them to cultivate a bodhisattva's own vast wisdom; manifesting immeasurable transformation bodies, so that all who behold them rejoice, illuminating a bodhisattva's own mind with the light of the sun of wisdom, causing them to awaken to sovereign wisdom.
Unlike most items in this litany, this one states its own purpose plainly: the wisdom is not comprehended for its own sake but immediately put to work — gathering beings in, opening Dharma gates, manifesting transformation bodies that cause joy. Knowledge of the sentient-being-realm, here, is inseparable from the teaching it makes possible.
Part 366 Complete
This continues the ninth dedication's litany of Samantabhadra's practice. Chapter 25 continues in Part 367 with a new list of utterly subtle wisdoms regarding every world throughout the dharma-realm and the whole of empty space — small worlds and vast worlds, defiled worlds and pure worlds, and worlds known as no different from a dream, an image, or an illusion.