A Vision of Jeweled Lotus Flowers
Having attained the great dedication and the grounds it brings, the sons of heaven see lotus flowers beyond counting, each holding a seated bodhisattva radiating buddhas of its own; in gratitude they transform their very pores into clouds of flowers and fragrance, whose scent alone can dissolve every hindrance in whoever receives it.
Flowers, Fragrance, and a Golden Net
A vision of lotus-seated bodhisattvas gives way to an offering of clouds from every pore, whose fragrance dissolves the ten thousand afflictions in whoever it touches, and whose canopy plants a single seed leading to the stage of a wheel-turning king adorned with a golden net.
爾時，諸天子聞說普賢廣大迴向，得十地故，獲諸力莊嚴三昧故，以眾生數等清淨三業悔除一切諸重障故，即見百千億那由他佛剎微塵數七寶蓮華；一一華上皆有菩薩結跏趺坐，放大光明；彼諸菩薩一一隨好，放眾生數等光明；彼光明中，有眾生數等諸佛結跏趺坐，隨眾生心而為說法，而猶未現離垢三昧少分之力。「爾時，彼諸天子以上眾華，復於身上一一毛孔化作眾生數等眾妙華雲，供養毘盧遮那如來，持以散佛，一切皆於佛身上住。其諸香雲，普雨無量佛剎微塵數世界。
"At that time, the sons of heaven, having heard the teaching of Samantabhadra's vast and great dedication of merit, and because they had attained the ten grounds, and because they had gained the samādhi adorned with every power, and because they had, with pure deeds of the three kinds equal in number to sentient beings, repented of every grave obstruction, at once beheld seven-jeweled lotus flowers as numerous as motes of dust in a hundred thousand koṭis of nayutas of buddha-lands; upon each and every flower sat a bodhisattva in full lotus posture, emitting great light; from each and every minor mark of those bodhisattvas issued light equal in number to sentient beings; and within that light were buddhas equal in number to sentient beings, seated in full lotus posture, expounding the dharma according to the mind of each sentient being — and yet not even the smallest portion of the power of the samādhi of freedom from defilement had thereby been manifested. "At that time, those sons of heaven, from the flowers offered above and further from each and every pore upon their own bodies, transformed themselves into wondrous clouds of flowers equal in number to sentient beings, and offered them to Vairocana Tathāgata, scattering them upon the Buddha, so that all of them came to rest upon the Buddha's body. Their clouds of fragrance rained down universally upon worlds as numerous as motes of dust in measureless buddha-lands.
若有眾生身蒙香者，其身安樂，譬如比丘入第四禪，一切業障皆得銷滅。若有聞者，彼諸眾生於色、聲、香、味、觸，其內具有五百煩惱，其外亦有五百煩惱，貪行多者二萬一千，瞋行多者二萬一千，癡行多者二萬一千，等分行者二萬一千，了知如是悉是虛妄。如是知已，成就香幢雲自在光明清淨善根。若有眾生見其蓋者，種一清淨金網轉輪王一恒河沙善根。「佛子！菩薩住此轉輪王位，於百千億那由他佛剎微塵數世界中教化眾生。佛子！譬如明鏡世界月智如來，常有無量諸世界中比丘、比丘尼、優婆塞、優婆夷等化現其身而來聽法，廣為演說本生之事，未曾一念而有間斷。若有眾生聞其佛名，必得往生彼佛國土；菩薩安住清淨金網轉輪王位亦復如是，若有暫得遇其光明，必獲菩薩第十地位，以先修行善根力故。
Whatever sentient being's body was touched by that fragrance, their body became peaceful and joyful, just as a monk who has entered the fourth dhyāna, and every obstruction of karma was thereby dissolved. Whoever heard of it, those sentient beings, with regard to form, sound, fragrance, taste, and touch, possess five hundred inward afflictions and also five hundred outward afflictions — twenty-one thousand for those of predominantly greedy conduct, twenty-one thousand for those of predominantly hateful conduct, twenty-one thousand for those of predominantly deluded conduct, and twenty-one thousand for those of evenly mixed conduct — and came to know that all of these are utterly empty and false. Having known this, they accomplished the wholesome root of the pure light of mastery of the cloud of the fragrance-banner. Whatever sentient being saw its canopy planted a single wholesome root equal to a Ganges-river's sands toward the stage of the pure golden-net wheel-turning king. "Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva dwelling in this stage of wheel-turning king teaches and transforms sentient beings throughout worlds as numerous as motes of dust in a hundred thousand koṭis of nayutas of buddha-lands. Son of the Buddha! Just as, in the world Bright Mirror, Tathāgata Wisdom of the Moon constantly has monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen from measureless worlds manifest their own bodies and come to hear the dharma, expounding widely the matters of his past lives without ever once ceasing even for a single thought, and whatever sentient being hears that buddha's name is certain to attain rebirth in that buddha's land — a bodhisattva abiding in the stage of the pure golden-net wheel-turning king is likewise just the same: whoever momentarily encounters his light is certain to attain the bodhisattva's tenth ground, through the power of wholesome roots cultivated beforehand.
而猶未現離垢三昧少分之力 — and yet not even the smallest portion of the power of the samādhi of freedom from defilement had thereby been manifested. Even after the drum's entire teaching on repentance and this vision of buddha-bearing lotus flowers beyond counting, the text insists this display is still only a fraction of what the named samādhi actually holds — a deliberate undercutting of the vision's own grandeur, keeping the samādhi itself just out of reach of any single description offered so far.
Part 624 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-five, 如來隨好光明功德品, in fascicle forty-eight. Part 625 continues with the simile of one who has attained the first dhyāna, and Bodhisattva Jeweled Hand's exchange with the Buddha on the vastness of a single buddha-land.