The Tenth Dedication Named
Twenty-nine kinds of equality, each anchored in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable nature — of form, sensation, sentient beings, buddha-lands, and every dharma at once — culminate in a bodhisattva who abides securely in a pure body, speech, and mind equal to the dharma-realm itself. The sūtra then names what it has just finished describing: a bodhisattva mahāsattva's tenth dedication, abiding in the immeasurable dedication equal to the dharma-realm.
Twenty-Nine Kinds of Equality
Nearly thirty times over, the same formula repeats — dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality — applied to bodily, verbal, and mental karma, to the five aggregates individually and together, to what is inward and outward, to sentient beings and buddha-lands, and finally to the dharma-realm's own non-duality with itself.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩又以此善根如是迴向，所謂：『以住法界無量住迴向，以住法界無量身業迴向，以住法界無量語業迴向，以住法界無量意業迴向，以住法界無量色平等迴向，以住法界無量受、想、行、識平等迴向，以住法界無量蘊平等迴向，以住法界無量界平等迴向，以住法界無量處平等迴向，以住法界無量內平等迴向，以住法界無量外平等迴向，以住法界無量發起平等迴向，以住法界無量深心平等迴向，以住法界無量方便平等迴向，以住法界無量信解平等迴向，以住法界無量諸根平等迴向，以住法界無量初、中、後際平等迴向，以住法界無量業報平等迴向，以住法界無量染淨平等迴向，以住法界無量眾生平等迴向，以住法界無量佛剎平等迴向，以住法界無量法平等迴向，以住法界無量世間光明平等迴向，以住法界無量諸佛菩薩平等迴向，以住法界無量菩薩行願平等迴向，以住法界無量菩薩出離平等迴向，以住法界無量菩薩教化調伏平等迴向，以住法界無量法界無二平等迴向，以住法界無量如來眾會道場平等迴向。
"Child of the Buddha! This bodhisattva mahāsattva further dedicates these wholesome roots in this way, namely: dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable abiding, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable bodily karma, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable verbal karma, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable mental karma, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of form, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of sensation, perception, mental formation, and consciousness, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of the aggregates, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of the elements, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of the sense bases, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of what is inward, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of what is outward, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of arising, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of the profound mind, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of skillful means, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of faith and understanding, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of every faculty, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of the beginning, middle, and end, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of karmic retribution, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of defilement and purity, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of sentient beings, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of buddha-lands, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of every dharma, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of the world's own light, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of every buddha and bodhisattva, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of a bodhisattva's own practice and vow, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of a bodhisattva's own renunciation, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of a bodhisattva's own teaching and taming, dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of the dharma-realm's own non-duality, and dedicating by abiding in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of every Tathāgata's own assembly at the seat of enlightenment.
The list closes on "the dharma-realm's own immeasurable equality of the dharma-realm's own non-duality" — the dharma-realm made equal to its own non-duality with itself, a claim that folds the entire preceding list back onto the single term organizing it. Every other equality named here turns out to be one instance of this final, self-referential one.
Named: The Dedication Equal to the Dharma-Realm
Abiding securely in a pure body, speech, and mind equal to the dharma-realm, in a wisdom that broadly expounds every dharma, and in a light able to sever every sentient being's own net of doubt with a single voice — the sūtra pauses to name what it has just finished describing: the tenth and final dedication.
』「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩如是迴向時，安住法界無量平等清淨身，安住法界無量平等清淨語，安住法界無量平等清淨心，安住法界無量平等諸菩薩清淨行願，安住法界無量平等清淨眾會道場，安住法界無量平等為一切菩薩廣說諸法清淨智，安住法界無量平等能入盡法界一切世界身，安住法界無量平等一切法光明清淨無畏；能以一音盡斷一切眾生疑網，隨其根欲皆令歡喜，住於無上一切種智、力、無所畏、自在神通、廣大功德、出離法中。「佛子！是為菩薩摩訶薩第十住等法界無量迴向。
"Child of the Buddha! When this bodhisattva mahāsattva dedicates in this way, he abides securely in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable, equal, and pure body; he abides securely in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable, equal, and pure speech; he abides securely in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable, equal, and pure mind; he abides securely in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable, equal, and pure practice and vow of every bodhisattva; he abides securely in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable, equal, and pure assembly at the seat of enlightenment; he abides securely in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable, equal, pure wisdom that broadly expounds every dharma for every bodhisattva; he abides securely in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable, equal body able to enter every world throughout the whole dharma-realm; he abides securely in the dharma-realm's own immeasurable, equal light of every dharma, pure and fearless; with a single voice he is entirely able to sever the net of doubt of every sentient being, according with their faculty and desire, causing them all to rejoice, abiding within the unsurpassed omniscience, power, fearlessness, sovereign spiritual power, vast merit, and dharma of renunciation. Child of the Buddha! This is called a bodhisattva mahāsattva's tenth dedication, abiding in the immeasurable dedication equal to the dharma-realm.
The naming lands quietly, exactly as it did for the ninth dedication — a single short sentence following an immense catalogue, rather than any special fanfare. What follows this naming, as with the ninth, is not silence but a further passage on what abiding in this dedication accomplishes, before the verse recapitulation begins.
Part 391 Complete
This names the tenth and final dedication of "The Ten Dedications" chapter, though its prose section does not yet close — a further passage on what this dedication accomplishes still remains. Chapter 25 continues in Part 392 as the bodhisattva mahāsattva who dedicates in this way fulfills Samantabhadra's own immeasurable, boundless practice and vow, purifying every buddha-land throughout the whole of empty space and the entire dharma-realm.