Fragrance, Flowers, and Every Other Adornment
The sūtra pauses to note what its own repetition would otherwise require: everything just described for jeweled adornment across four Parts holds equally for adornment with fragrance, flowers, garlands, incense, robes, canopies, banners, and streamers — a hundredfold beyond even that. The dedication then turns to twenty-two vows for every sentient being, from a mind equal and unmoving to realizing omniscience within a single thought.
As with Jewels, So with Everything Else
A single, economical sentence acknowledges what the sūtra does not have to spell out again: the whole preceding catalogue of jeweled thrones, rivers, trees, and faculties applies equally, item for item, to eleven other categories of adornment, extended a hundredfold beyond even that.
如寶莊嚴，如是廣說；如是香莊嚴、華莊嚴、鬘莊嚴、塗香莊嚴、燒香莊嚴、末香莊嚴、衣莊嚴、蓋莊嚴、幢莊嚴、幡莊嚴、摩尼寶莊嚴，次第乃至過此百倍皆如寶莊嚴，如是廣說。
Just as jeweled adornment was broadly expounded in this way, so too are fragrance adornment, flower adornment, garland adornment, anointing-incense adornment, burning-incense adornment, powdered-incense adornment, robe adornment, canopy adornment, banner adornment, streamer adornment, and maṇi-jewel adornment — each in turn, up to a hundred times beyond this, all to be broadly expounded exactly as jeweled adornment was.
This single sentence does an enormous amount of quiet work — it multiplies the preceding four Parts' worth of catalogue by eleven further categories, and then by a hundred beyond that, without spelling out a single additional item. The sūtra trusts its reader to have absorbed the pattern well enough that naming it once is naming it everywhere.
Twenty-Two Vows for Every Sentient Being
The dedication turns from adornment to what it accomplishes — twenty-two vows, each opening "dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being," moving from a pure, unmoving mind through unobstructed wisdom and equality with Samantabhadra's own practice, to a closing vow that every sentient being realizes omniscience within a single thought, reaching its very culmination.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以法施等所集善根，為長養一切善根故迴向；為嚴淨一切佛剎故迴向；為成就一切眾生故迴向；為令一切眾生皆心淨不動故迴向；為令一切眾生皆入甚深佛法故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得無能過清淨功德故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得不可壞清淨福力故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得無盡智力，度諸眾生令入佛法故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得平等無量清淨言音故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得平等無礙眼，成就盡虛空遍法界等智慧故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得清淨念，知前際劫一切世界故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得無礙大智慧，悉能決了一切法藏故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得無限量大菩提，周遍法界無所障礙故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得平等無分別同體善根故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得一切功德具足莊嚴清淨身、語、意業故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得同於普賢行故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得入一切同體清淨佛剎故迴向；為令一切眾生悉觀察一切智，皆趣入圓滿故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得遠離不平等善根故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得平等無異相，深心次第圓滿一切智故迴向；為令一切眾生皆得安住一切白法故迴向；為令一切眾生皆於一念中證一切智得究竟故迴向；為令一切眾生皆成滿清淨一切智道故迴向。
"Child of the Buddha! This bodhisattva mahāsattva, with the wholesome roots gathered through the giving of Dharma and other practices, dedicates for the sake of nurturing every wholesome root; dedicates for the sake of purely adorning every buddha-land; dedicates for the sake of bringing every sentient being to accomplishment; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to have a mind pure and unmoving; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to enter the profound Dharma of every buddha; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain pure merit that nothing can surpass; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain indestructible, pure power of blessing; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain inexhaustible power of wisdom, delivering every sentient being to enter the Dharma of every buddha; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain equal, immeasurable, pure speech and voice; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain an equal, unobstructed eye, accomplishing wisdom equal to the whole of empty space and the entire dharma-realm; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain pure mindfulness, knowing every world throughout every prior kalpa; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain unobstructed great wisdom, entirely able to resolutely comprehend every treasury of the Dharma; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain boundless great enlightenment, pervading the dharma-realm without any obstruction; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain wholesome roots equal, without discrimination, and of a single essence; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain every merit, fully adorned with pure bodily, verbal, and mental karma; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain equality with Samantabhadra's own practice; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain entry into every buddha-land of a single, pure essence; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to entirely contemplate omniscience, all entering into its fullness; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain freedom from every unequal wholesome root; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain equality without any differing mark, their profound mind fulfilling omniscience in due order; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to attain abiding in every wholesome dharma; dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to realize omniscience within a single thought, reaching its very culmination; and dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to fully accomplish the pure path of omniscience.
After the immense architectural and botanical catalogue of the previous Parts, this list returns to something closer to the dedication's original register — not what a buddha-land looks like, but what happens in the mind of every being who lives within one: equality, freedom from discrimination, and finally, reaching omniscience within the span of a single thought.
Part 389 Complete
This continues the tenth dedication's prose section. Chapter 25 continues in Part 390 with a new set of vows, opening "wishing to," as the bodhisattva mahāsattva seeks to fully expound the power of every pure practice, to master an inexpressible ocean of the Dharma, and to turn the never-regressing wheel of the Dharma equally across every buddha-land, however vast or small, defiled or pure.