The Ten Dedications Complete
The verse's final movement closes an entire chapter — offerings of incense and lamps equal in number to every sentient being, a dedication practice every buddha throughout the ten directions has cultivated together, and a closing measure of the immeasurable: a single hair could find the limit of empty space, and every land ground to dust could still be counted, but the practice and vow of a bodhisattva who has become Samantabhadra can never be measured at all.
Offerings Equal to Every Sentient Being
The meditation on offering reaches its own culmination — lamps and praise equal in number to sentient beings, offered to buddhas equal in number to sentient beings, across kalpas equal in number to sentient beings — before the verse turns from what is given to what is attained: abiding securely in Samantabhadra's own ground, wished for every being the wise can praise.
末香燒香上妙華，眾寶衣服莊嚴具，如是供養諸最勝，歡喜奉事無厭足。
等眾生數照世燈，念念成就大菩提，亦以無邊偈稱述，供養人中調御者。
如眾生數佛世尊，皆修無上妙供養，如眾生數無量劫，如是讚歎無窮盡。
如是供養諸佛時，以佛神力皆周遍，悉見十方無量佛，安住普賢菩薩行。
過去未來及現在，所有一切諸善根，令我常修普賢行，速得安住普賢地。
一切如來所知見，世間無量諸眾生，悉願具足如普賢，為聰慧者所稱讚。
"Powdered incense, burning incense, and supreme, wondrous flowers, every kind of jeweled garment and ornament — with offerings such as these to every supreme one, he joyfully serves them, never growing weary. Lamps illuminating the world, equal in number to sentient beings, within thought after thought accomplishing great enlightenment; and also with boundless verses proclaiming their praise, making offerings to the tamer among humankind. To buddhas, World-Honored Ones, equal in number to sentient beings, he cultivates the unsurpassed, wondrous offering to them all; for immeasurable kalpas equal in number to sentient beings, he offers praise such as this, without any end. While making offerings to every buddha in this way, through the Buddha's own spiritual power he pervades everywhere entirely; beholding every immeasurable buddha throughout the ten directions, abiding securely in Samantabhadra bodhisattva's own practice. Every wholesome root, whatever there is, throughout the past, the future, and the present, causes me forever to cultivate Samantabhadra's own practice, swiftly attaining secure abiding in Samantabhadra's own ground. Whatever every Tathāgata knows and sees, the immeasurable sentient beings throughout the world, he wishes every one of them to be fully endowed just like Samantabhadra, praised by the wise and intelligent.
"Causes me forever to cultivate Samantabhadra's own practice" is one of the only first-person moments in this entire dedication — the verse briefly drops its third-person description of an ideal bodhisattva and speaks in the voice of the one making the vow. The wish for every sentient being and the wish for oneself, here, turn out to be the very same sentence.
Immeasurable as Empty Space, Unmeasured Still
The final quatrains name this dedication as the very practice every buddha throughout the ten directions has already cultivated together, wished upon every sentient being without exception — before closing on the sūtra's own chosen measure of the immeasurable: what can be counted, and what, however vast, cannot.
此是十方諸大士，共所修治迴向行，諸佛如來為我說，此迴向行最無上。
十方世界無有餘，其中一切諸眾生，莫不咸令得開覺，悉使常如普賢行。
如其迴向行布施，亦復堅持於禁戒，精進長時無退怯，忍辱柔和心不動，
禪定持心常一緣，智慧了境同三昧，去來現在皆通達，世間無有得其邊。
菩薩身心及語業，如是所作皆清淨，一切修行無有餘，悉與普賢菩薩等。
譬如法界無分別，戲論染著皆永盡，亦如涅槃無障礙，心常如是離諸取。
智者所有迴向法，諸佛如來已開示，種種善根悉迴向，是故能成菩薩道。
佛子善學此迴向，無量行願悉成滿，攝取法界盡無餘，是故能成善逝力。
若欲成就佛所說，菩薩廣大殊勝行，宜應善住此迴向，是諸佛子號普賢。
一切眾生猶可數，三世心量亦可知，如是普賢諸佛子，功德邊際無能測。
一毛度空可得邊，眾剎為塵可知數，如是大仙諸佛子，所住行願無能量。」
This is the dedication practice cultivated and perfected together by every great being throughout the ten directions; every buddha and Tathāgata has expounded it for my sake, and this dedication practice is the most unsurpassed of all. Throughout the worlds of the ten directions, entirely, without exception, every sentient being within them — there is none he does not cause to attain awakening, causing every one of them to forever practice just as Samantabhadra does. Just as he dedicates through practicing giving, so too does he firmly uphold the precepts; diligent for a long time, never regressing or growing timid, patient and gentle, his mind unmoving, in meditative absorption his mind forever fixed on a single object, his wisdom comprehending every domain equal to samādhi itself; fully penetrating the past, future, and present, with nothing in the whole world able to reach its limit. The bodhisattva's own body, mind, and verbal karma — everything done in this way is entirely pure; every practice cultivated, without exception, is entirely equal to Samantabhadra bodhisattva's own. Just as the dharma-realm holds no discrimination, every idle discourse and defiled attachment forever extinguished, so too, like nirvāṇa, unobstructed, his mind is forever thus, free from every kind of grasping. Whatever dedication-dharma the wise possess, every buddha and Tathāgata has already revealed it; every kind of wholesome root is entirely dedicated, and it is for this reason that a bodhisattva's own path can be accomplished. A child of the Buddha who skillfully studies this dedication fulfills every immeasurable practice and vow entirely; gathering in the whole dharma-realm without any remainder, and it is for this reason that the power of the Well-Gone One can be accomplished. If one wishes to accomplish the vast, supreme practice of a bodhisattva that the Buddha has expounded, one should skillfully abide in this very dedication — this is what every child of the Buddha calls Samantabhadra. Every sentient being can still be counted, and the measure of mind throughout the three times can still be known; but the very limit of the merit of every child of the Buddha who is thus Samantabhadra, none is able to fathom. A single hair could measure empty space and find its limit, and every land ground to dust could still be counted; but the practice and vow in which every great sage, child of the Buddha, such as these abides, none is able to measure."
The whole chapter closes on a deliberate reversal of its own recurring image: throughout ten dedications, sentient beings, kalpas, and buddha-lands have all been called "immeasurable," yet the final couplet insists that even these can, in principle, be counted — a single hair could exhaust empty space, every world could be ground to dust and tallied. Only the practice and vow of a bodhisattva who has become Samantabhadra resists measurement altogether, placed beyond every scale the chapter has used until now.
Part 396 Complete — The Ten Dedications, Chapter 25, Fascicle 33 of 80
This closes the tenth dedication, the entire twenty-fifth chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra — "The Ten Dedications" (十迴向品) — and fascicle thirty-three. All ten dedications, from the first dedication of saving every sentient being while renouncing every form of clinging through this final dedication equal to the boundless dharma-realm, are now complete. Fascicle thirty-four opens Part 397 with the sūtra's twenty-sixth chapter, "The Ten Grounds" (十地品第二十六), as the World-Honored One, in the Jeweled Treasury Hall within the palace of the King of the Heaven of Free Enjoyment of Others' Emanations, begins the teaching this site's translation of Vasubandhu's own treatise has already explored in depth — the ten grounds of a bodhisattva's path toward buddhahood.