The Jeweled Catalogue Closes
The vast catalogue of jeweled adornment that opened in Part 385 finally closes, turning inward at its very end — jeweled eyes, ears, tongues, and bodies, then jeweled bodily, verbal, and mental karma — before a closing vision: within the measure of a single hair's tip, immeasurable bodhisattvas dwell, accomplishing pure wisdom, and just as within that single hair's tip, so too throughout the whole of empty space and the entire dharma-realm.
Jeweled Faculties, Jeweled Karma
Having spent three Parts describing jewels external to the body — thrones, rivers, trees, palaces — the catalogue turns at last to the body's own faculties, rendered in jewels: eyes that behold the ten powers, ears that hear every sound throughout the dharma-realm, a tongue able to speak every language, and finally bodily, verbal, and mental karma, each one taking wisdom as its foremost guide.
阿僧祇寶鼓，妙音克諧，窮劫不絕。阿僧祇寶眾生，盡能攝持無上法寶。阿僧祇寶身，具足無量功德妙寶。阿僧祇寶口，常演一切妙法寶音。阿僧祇寶心，具清淨意大智願寶。阿僧祇寶念，斷諸愚惑，究竟堅固一切智寶。阿僧祇寶明，誦持一切諸佛法寶。阿僧祇寶慧，決了一切諸佛法藏。阿僧祇寶智，得大圓滿一切智寶。阿僧祇寶眼，鑒十力寶，無所障礙。阿僧祇寶耳，聽聞無量，盡法界聲，清淨無礙。阿僧祇寶鼻，常嗅隨順清淨寶香。阿僧祇寶舌，能說無量諸語言法。阿僧祇寶身，遍遊十方而無罣礙。阿僧祇寶意，常勤修習普賢行願。阿僧祇寶音，淨妙音聲遍十方界。阿僧祇寶身業，一切所作以智為首。阿僧祇寶語業，常說修行無礙智寶。阿僧祇寶意業，得無障礙廣大智寶，究竟圓滿。
Asaṃkhyeya jeweled drums, their wondrous sound perfectly harmonious, never ceasing throughout every kalpa. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled sentient beings, entirely able to uphold the unsurpassed jewel of the Dharma. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled bodies, fully endowed with the immeasurable, wondrous jewel of merit. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled mouths, forever expounding every wondrous jeweled voice of the Dharma. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled minds, endowed with the pure, great jewel of the wisdom and vow of intention. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled mindfulness, severing every ignorance and delusion, ultimately firm in the jewel of omniscience. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled clarity, reciting and upholding every buddha's own jewel of the Dharma. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled wisdom, resolutely comprehending every buddha's own treasury of the Dharma. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled knowledge, attaining the great, fully complete jewel of omniscience. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled eyes, beholding the jewel of the ten powers, without any obstruction. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled ears, hearing immeasurably, every sound throughout the whole dharma-realm, pure and unobstructed. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled noses, forever smelling the pure jeweled fragrance that accords with all things. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled tongues, able to speak every immeasurable language and dharma. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled bodies, roaming throughout the ten directions without any hindrance. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled minds, forever diligently cultivating Samantabhadra's own practice and vow. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled voices, their pure, wondrous sound pervading the worlds of the ten directions. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled bodily karma, every deed taking wisdom as its foremost guide. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled verbal karma, forever expounding the cultivation and practice of the unobstructed jewel of wisdom. Asaṃkhyeya jeweled mental karma, attaining the unobstructed, vast jewel of wisdom, ultimately and fully complete.
This turn from external jewels to the faculties of the body itself is the catalogue's real destination — every throne, tree, and palace described across the previous three Parts was, in the end, a way of approaching this: eyes, ears, a tongue, a mind, all rendered as jewels in their own right, no less adorned than anything external to them.
Immeasurable Bodhisattvas Within a Hair's Tip
The catalogue closes on its own governing principle: within the measure of a single hair's tip, in a single buddha-land, a single direction, a single place, immeasurable, inexpressible numbers of great bodhisattvas dwell, accomplishing pure wisdom — and this holds not once but everywhere, throughout the whole of empty space and the entire dharma-realm.
』「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩於彼一切諸佛剎中，於一佛剎、一方、一處、一毛端量，有無量無邊不可說數諸大菩薩，皆悉成就清淨智慧，充滿而住。如一佛剎、一方、一處、一毛端量，如是盡虛空遍法界一一佛剎、一一方、一一處、一一毛端量，悉亦如是。是為菩薩摩訶薩以諸善根而為迴向，普願一切諸佛國土悉具種種妙寶莊嚴。
"Child of the Buddha! This bodhisattva mahāsattva, throughout every one of those buddha-lands, within a single buddha-land, a single direction, a single place, the measure of a single hair's tip, there are immeasurable, boundless, inexpressible numbers of great bodhisattvas, all of them accomplishing pure wisdom, dwelling there in abundance. Just as within a single buddha-land, a single direction, a single place, the measure of a single hair's tip, so too is it, throughout the whole of empty space and the entire dharma-realm, within each and every buddha-land, each and every direction, each and every place, and the measure of each and every hair's tip. This is a bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of every wholesome root, universally wishing that every buddha's own land be entirely endowed with every kind of wondrous, jeweled adornment.
After four Parts naming well over a hundred distinct kinds of jewel, the passage closes not with a summary of them but with the single image that makes the whole enterprise coherent — a hair's tip containing immeasurable bodhisattvas, and that same fact holding true everywhere at once. Every individual jewel named across this catalogue was, in effect, one instance of this single claim.
Part 388 Complete
This completes the long catalogue of jeweled adornment within the tenth dedication's prose section. Chapter 25 continues in Part 389 as the sūtra notes that everything just described for jeweled adornment holds equally for adornment with fragrance, flowers, garlands, anointing incense, burning incense, powdered incense, robes, canopies, banners, and streamers — before the dedication turns to what such universally adorned buddha-lands actually accomplish for the beings who dwell within them.