Jeweled Trees Bearing Bodhisattvas as Fruit
The catalogue shifts register: rather than simply describing each jewel, it now names what happens to whoever beholds or touches it — garments that grant incomparable samādhi, a kāṣāya robe that grants the gate of dhāraṇī the instant one gives rise to the mind of enlightenment, and jeweled trees whose branches host birds proclaiming the Dharma and whose flowers seat immeasurable bodhisattvas roaming the whole dharma-realm.
What Beholding or Wearing Each Jewel Accomplishes
Where earlier Parts simply named jewels, this passage attaches an effect to nearly every one — dignified bearing that gives rise to bliss, a robe that grants a gate of dhāraṇī the instant one gives rise to the mind of enlightenment, a throne on which a buddha roars the great lion's roar — before turning to jeweled tāla trees, described branch by branch, leaf by leaf, down to the bodhisattvas seated cross-legged upon each flower.
阿僧祇寶相，其一一相悉超眾相。阿僧祇寶威儀，見者皆生菩薩喜樂。阿僧祇寶聚，見者皆生智慧寶聚。阿僧祇寶安住，見者皆生善住寶心。阿僧祇寶衣服，其有著者，生諸菩薩無比三昧。阿僧祇寶袈裟，其有著者，纔始發心則得善見陀羅尼門。阿僧祇寶修習，其有見者，知一切寶皆是業果，決定清淨。阿僧祇寶無礙知見，其有見者，得了一切清淨法眼。阿僧祇寶光藏，其有見者，則得成就大智慧藏。阿僧祇寶座，佛坐其上大師子吼。阿僧祇寶燈，常放清淨智慧光明。阿僧祇寶多羅樹，次第行列，繚以寶繩，莊嚴清淨。其樹復有阿僧祇寶幹，從身聳擢，端直圓潔；阿僧祇寶枝，種種眾寶莊嚴稠密，不思議鳥翔集其中，常吐妙音宣揚正法；阿僧祇寶葉，放大智光，遍一切處；阿僧祇寶華，一一華上，無量菩薩結跏趺坐遍遊法界；阿僧祇寶果，見者當得一切智智不退轉果。
Asaṃkhyeya jeweled marks, each and every mark surpassing every other mark. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled dignified bearings, whoever beholds them gives rise to a bodhisattva's own joy and bliss. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled accumulations, whoever beholds them gives rise to an accumulation of the jewel of wisdom. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled abidings, whoever beholds them gives rise to a mind securely abiding in the jewel of goodness. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled garments, whoever wears them gives rise to every bodhisattva's own incomparable samādhi. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled kāṣāya robes, whoever wears them, the very moment they first give rise to the mind of enlightenment, attains the gate of the dhāraṇī of skillful vision. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled cultivations, whoever beholds them knows that every jewel is itself a karmic fruit, resolutely pure. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled unobstructed knowledge and vision, whoever beholds it attains the fully comprehending pure Dharma-eye. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled treasuries of light, whoever beholds them thereby attains the accomplishment of the great treasury of wisdom. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled thrones, upon which a buddha sits and roars the great lion's roar. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled lamps, forever emitting the pure light of wisdom. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled tāla trees, arranged in ordered rows, encircled with jeweled cords, purely adorned. These trees further have asaṃkhyeya jeweled trunks, rising straight up from their base, upright and smoothly rounded; asaṃkhyeya jeweled branches, densely adorned with every kind of jewel, where inconceivable birds gather and fly, forever uttering a wondrous voice that proclaims the true Dharma; asaṃkhyeya jeweled leaves, emitting the light of great wisdom, pervading every place; asaṃkhyeya jeweled flowers, upon each and every flower immeasurable bodhisattvas sit cross-legged, roaming throughout the whole dharma-realm; and asaṃkhyeya jeweled fruit, whoever beholds it shall attain the never-regressing fruit of the very wisdom of omniscience.
The jeweled tree, described part by part — trunk, branch, leaf, flower, fruit — turns a single object into a complete teaching apparatus: birds proclaiming the Dharma in the branches, bodhisattvas seated in the flowers, wisdom emitted from the leaves, and a never-regressing fruit awaiting whoever simply looks. Nothing about it is decorative; every part of the tree does something.
Cities, Palaces, and Robes That Loosen Attachment
The catalogue turns from the botanical to the civic and domestic — villages that cause whoever beholds them to abandon worldly ways, a palace where a king possesses a bodhisattva's own body strong as Nārāyaṇa, and a dwelling that removes, in whoever enters it, any lingering attachment to a home.
阿僧祇寶聚落，見者捨離世聚落法。阿僧祇寶都邑，無礙眾生於中盈滿。阿僧祇寶宮殿，王處其中，具足菩薩那羅延身，勇猛堅固，被法甲冑，心無退轉。阿僧祇寶舍，入者能除戀舍宅心。阿僧祇寶衣，著者能令解了無著。阿僧祇寶宮殿，出家菩薩充滿其中。阿僧祇寶珍玩，見者咸生無量歡喜。阿僧祇寶輪，放不思議智慧光明轉不退輪。阿僧祇寶跋陀樹，因陀羅網莊嚴清淨。阿僧祇寶地，不思議寶間錯莊嚴。阿僧祇寶吹，其音清亮充滿法界。
Asaṃkhyeya jeweled villages, whoever beholds them abandons the worldly ways of villages. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled cities, filled entirely with unobstructed sentient beings. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled palaces, a king dwelling within, fully possessing a bodhisattva's own body strong as Nārāyaṇa, courageous and firm, clad in the armor of the Dharma, his mind never regressing. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled dwellings, whoever enters is able to remove any mind attached to a dwelling place. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled garments, whoever wears them is able to come to comprehend non-attachment. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled palaces, filled entirely with bodhisattvas who have left the household life. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled treasures and curiosities, whoever beholds them all gives rise to immeasurable joy. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled wheels, emitting the inconceivable light of wisdom, turning the never-regressing wheel. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled bhadra trees, adorned purely with Indra's net. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled ground, adorned with inconceivable jewels interspersed throughout. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled wind-instruments, their sound clear and resonant, filling the whole dharma-realm.
A jeweled dwelling that removes attachment to dwellings, and jeweled garments that teach non-attachment through the very act of wearing them, both turn the object against the desire it would ordinarily satisfy. The most beautiful possible house, in this catalogue, does not deepen the wish to possess a house — it dissolves it.
Part 387 Complete
This continues the tenth dedication's prose section. Chapter 25 continues in Part 388 as the long catalogue of jeweled adornments continues still further, before the vow turns toward what a buddha-land purified in this way ultimately provides for every sentient being who comes to dwell within it.