The Bodhisattva's Great Compassion
A single line of introduction — a bodhisattva's great compassion, benefiting every world — opens onto the longest litany in the chapter so far. Seventy-eight clauses follow, one after another, moving from manifesting bodies and journeying to buddha-lands, through generosity, precepts, and concentration, to worlds of defilement, each one still unspeakable.
From Manifesting a Body to Worlds of Defilement
One sentence names the bodhisattva's great compassion. Everything after it, all the way to the end of this part, is a single unbroken chain of what that compassion does and cannot be told in full.
菩薩如是大慈悲，利益一切諸世間，普現其身不可說，入諸佛剎不可說，見諸菩薩不可說，發生智慧不可說，請問正法不可說，敷揚佛教不可說，現種種身不可說，詣諸國土不可說，示現神通不可說，普遍十方不可說，處處分身不可說，親近諸佛不可說，作諸供具不可說，種種無量不可說，清淨眾寶不可說，上妙蓮華不可說，最勝香鬘不可說，供養如來不可說，清淨信心不可說，最勝悟解不可說，增上志樂不可說，恭敬諸佛不可說，修行於施不可說，其心過去不可說，有求皆施不可說，一切悉施不可說，持戒清淨不可說，心意清淨不可說，讚歎諸佛不可說，愛樂正法不可說，成就諸忍不可說，無生法忍不可說，具足寂靜不可說，住寂靜地不可說，起大精進不可說，其心過去不可說，不退轉心不可說，不傾動心不可說，一切定藏不可說，觀察諸法不可說，寂然在定不可說，了達諸禪不可說，智慧通達不可說，三昧自在不可說，了達諸法不可說，明見諸佛不可說，修無量行不可說，發廣大願不可說，甚深境界不可說，清淨法門不可說，菩薩法力不可說，菩薩法住不可說，彼諸正念不可說，彼諸法界不可說，修方便智不可說，學甚深智不可說，無量智慧不可說，究竟智慧不可說，彼諸法智不可說，彼淨法輪不可說，彼大法雲不可說，彼大法雨不可說，彼諸神力不可說，彼諸方便不可說，入空寂智不可說，念念相續不可說，無量行門不可說，念念恒住不可說，諸佛剎海不可說，悉能往詣不可說，諸剎差別不可說，種種清淨不可說，差別莊嚴不可說，無邊色相不可說，種種間錯不可說，種種妙好不可說，清淨佛土不可說，雜染世界不可說。
The bodhisattva, with such great compassion, benefits every world: manifesting their body everywhere is unspeakable; entering every buddha-land is unspeakable; seeing every bodhisattva is unspeakable; giving rise to wisdom is unspeakable; asking about the true dharma is unspeakable; proclaiming the buddha's teaching is unspeakable; manifesting every manner of body is unspeakable; journeying to every land is unspeakable; displaying spiritual powers is unspeakable; pervading the ten directions is unspeakable; dividing their body everywhere is unspeakable; drawing near to every buddha is unspeakable; making every offering is unspeakable; every measureless kind of offering is unspeakable; every pure jewel is unspeakable; every supreme, wondrous lotus is unspeakable; every finest garland of incense is unspeakable; making offerings to the tathāgata is unspeakable; the purity of their faith is unspeakable; their finest understanding is unspeakable; their ever-increasing aspiration is unspeakable; their reverence for every buddha is unspeakable; their practice of generosity is unspeakable; the transcending of their mind is unspeakable; their giving to all who ask is unspeakable; their giving away of everything entirely is unspeakable; the purity of their upholding of precepts is unspeakable; the purity of their mind and intention is unspeakable; their praising of every buddha is unspeakable; their delighting in the true dharma is unspeakable; their accomplishing of every acceptance is unspeakable; their acceptance of the non-arising of dharmas is unspeakable; their being fully endowed with tranquility is unspeakable; their abiding on the ground of tranquility is unspeakable; their arousing of great diligence is unspeakable; the transcending of their mind is unspeakable; their mind that never turns back is unspeakable; their mind that cannot be shaken is unspeakable; their every treasury of concentration is unspeakable; their contemplating of every dharma is unspeakable; their abiding still within concentration is unspeakable; their thorough mastery of every dhyāna is unspeakable; their wisdom's thorough penetration is unspeakable; their mastery over samādhi is unspeakable; their thorough mastery of every dharma is unspeakable; their clearly seeing of every buddha is unspeakable; their cultivating of measureless practices is unspeakable; their giving rise to vast and great vows is unspeakable; their profound sphere of experience is unspeakable; their every pure dharma-gateway is unspeakable; the bodhisattva's power of dharma is unspeakable; the bodhisattva's abiding in dharma is unspeakable; their every right mindfulness is unspeakable; their every dharma-realm is unspeakable; their cultivating of skillful wisdom is unspeakable; their learning of profound wisdom is unspeakable; their measureless wisdom is unspeakable; their ultimate wisdom is unspeakable; their every wisdom of dharma is unspeakable; their every pure dharma-wheel is unspeakable; their every great dharma-cloud is unspeakable; their every great dharma-rain is unspeakable; their every spiritual power is unspeakable; their every skillful means is unspeakable; their entering the wisdom of empty stillness is unspeakable; their thought following thought without interruption is unspeakable; their every measureless gateway of practice is unspeakable; their abiding constantly in thought after thought is unspeakable; the ocean of every buddha-land is unspeakable; their being entirely able to journey there is unspeakable; the distinctions among every land are unspeakable; every manner of purity is unspeakable; every distinct adornment is unspeakable; boundless forms and colors are unspeakable; every manner of intricate interweaving is unspeakable; every manner of wondrous beauty is unspeakable; every pure buddha-land is unspeakable; and every world of defilement is unspeakable.
菩薩如是大慈悲，利益一切諸世間 — the bodhisattva, with such great compassion, benefits every world. Every clause that follows this opening line depends grammatically on it: the whole seventy-eight-item chain is one long description of what that compassion consists of. The list moves in loose clusters — bodies and journeys, offerings, generosity, precepts, concentration, wisdom, dharma-gateways — but never announces the shift from one cluster to the next, so that the compassion being described comes to feel less like an ordered curriculum and more like a single, undivided activity.
Part 573 Complete
This continues chapter thirty, 阿僧祇品, in fascicle forty-five. Part 574 completes this litany, carrying it from knowing the nature of beings through to a plea of sorrow for the world.