What the Tenth Dedication Accomplishes
The tenth dedication's prose section closes as it began — with Samantabhadra's own boundless practice and vow — naming fourteen kinds of sovereign power, from vastness and non-attachment to sitting cross-legged in a single body pervading the whole dharma-realm, then ten kinds of purity reaching every sentient being, every buddha-land, and every dharma at once, before a final formula: all of it fully possessed, accomplished, and reaching the farther shore.
Fourteen Kinds of Sovereign Power
Fulfilling Samantabhadra's own boundless practice and vow, the bodhisattva beholds, within thought after thought, every buddha appearing in the world and every buddha's own sovereign power — fourteen kinds in all, from the power of vastness and non-attachment to a single body, seated cross-legged, pervading the immeasurable dharma-realm throughout the ten directions without constricting a single sentient being.
菩薩摩訶薩以法施等一切善根如是迴向時，成滿普賢無量無邊菩薩行願，悉能嚴淨盡虛空等法界一切佛剎，令一切眾生亦得如是，具足成就無邊智慧，了一切法，於念念中見一切佛出興於世，於念念中見一切佛無量無邊自在力，所謂：廣大自在力、無著自在力、無礙自在力、不思議自在力、淨一切眾生自在力、立一切世界自在力、現不可說語言自在力、隨時應現自在力、住不退轉神通智自在力、演說一切無邊法界𢔌無有餘自在力、出生普賢菩薩無邊際眼自在力、以無礙耳識聞持無量諸佛正法自在力、一身結跏趺坐周遍十方無量法界於諸眾生無所迫隘自在力、以圓滿智普入三世無量法自在力。
When a bodhisattva mahāsattva dedicates every wholesome root born from the giving of Dharma and other practices in this way, he fulfills Samantabhadra's own immeasurable, boundless bodhisattva practice and vow, entirely able to purely adorn every buddha-land throughout the whole of empty space equal to the dharma-realm, causing every sentient being to attain the same, fully endowed with boundless wisdom, comprehending every dharma, beholding, within thought after thought, every buddha appearing in the world, beholding, within thought after thought, every buddha's own immeasurable, boundless sovereign power, namely: the sovereign power of vastness, the sovereign power of non-attachment, the sovereign power of being unobstructed, the sovereign power of the inconceivable, the sovereign power of purifying every sentient being, the sovereign power of establishing every world, the sovereign power of manifesting inexpressible language, the sovereign power of manifesting in accordance with the time, the sovereign power of abiding in never-regressing spiritual wisdom, the sovereign power of expounding the whole boundless dharma-realm without remainder, the sovereign power of giving rise to Samantabhadra bodhisattva's own boundless eye, the sovereign power of hearing and upholding the true Dharma of immeasurable buddhas with an unobstructed faculty of hearing, the sovereign power of sitting cross-legged in a single body pervading the immeasurable dharma-realm throughout the ten directions, causing no constriction to any sentient being, and the sovereign power of universally entering the immeasurable dharmas of the three times with fully complete wisdom.
"Causing no constriction to any sentient being" stands out among these fourteen powers — a single body pervading the immeasurable dharma-realm throughout the ten directions could easily be imagined as overwhelming, yet the passage insists it leaves no being feeling crowded or diminished. Boundless presence, here, is explicitly paired with the guarantee that it never comes at another's expense.
Ten Kinds of Purity, Reaching the Farther Shore
The dedication closes on ten kinds of purity — of every sentient being, every buddha-land, every dharma — before a final formula echoes across the whole tenth dedication one last time: all of it fully possessed, accomplished, cultivated, equal, manifest, known, comprehended, contemplated, and purified, reaching the farther shore.
又得無量清淨，所謂：一切眾生清淨、一切佛剎清淨、一切法清淨、一切處遍知智清淨、遍虛空界無邊智清淨、得一切差別言音智以種種言音普應眾生清淨、放無量圓滿光普照一切無邊世界清淨、出生一切三世菩薩行智清淨、一念中普入三世一切諸佛眾會道場智清淨、入無邊一切世間令一切眾生皆作所應作清淨。如是等皆得具足，皆得成就，皆已修治，皆得平等，皆悉現前，皆悉知見，皆悉悟入，皆已觀察，皆得清淨，到於彼岸。
He further attains immeasurable purity, namely: the purity of every sentient being, the purity of every buddha-land, the purity of every dharma, the purity of the wisdom that entirely comprehends every place, the purity of the boundless wisdom pervading the realm of empty space, the purity of attaining the wisdom of every distinct language, universally according with sentient beings through every kind of speech, the purity of emitting immeasurable, fully complete light that universally illuminates every boundless world, the purity of giving rise to the wisdom of a bodhisattva's own practice throughout the three times, the purity of the wisdom that universally enters, within a single thought, every assembly at the seat of enlightenment of every buddha throughout the three times, and the purity of entering every boundless world, causing every sentient being to do what they each ought to do. All such things as these are entirely and fully possessed, entirely accomplished, entirely cultivated and perfected, entirely equal, entirely manifest, entirely known and seen, entirely comprehended and entered, entirely contemplated, entirely purified, reaching the farther shore.
Ten near-synonyms for completion, chained together at the very close of this dedication's prose — possessed, accomplished, cultivated, equal, manifest, known, comprehended, contemplated, purified — read almost like a liturgical formula rather than a description. After forty Parts building toward it, the sūtra allows itself, here, to simply repeat the fact of arrival rather than argue for it further.
Part 392 Complete — The Tenth Dedication's Prose Section
This completes the prose section of the tenth and final dedication — the dedication equal to the immeasurable dharma-realm (等法界無量迴向). Chapter 25 continues in Part 393 as the whole earth trembles in six ways throughout worlds as numerous as the dust motes of a million buddha-lands in every direction, a rain of heavenly flowers falls, and bodhisattvas all named Vajra Banner arrive from distant worlds to bear witness — the same signs that marked the ninth dedication's own close, now heralding the tenth dedication's verse.