Ten Kinds of Most Subtle Destiny, Ten Kinds of Birth
Ten kinds of most subtle destiny compress an entire buddha's biography — arousing the mind of awakening, dwelling in Tuṣita, birth, youth, the royal palace, going forth, austerity, awakening, teaching, and parinirvāṇa — into events all manifested within the womb alone. Ten kinds of birth follow, closing on a birth so consequential it shakes every buddha-land and gathers measureless bodhisattvas at once.
An Entire Life, Folded into the Womb
The first list does not describe events that happen instead of or alongside the womb; it describes the entire span of a buddha's life — from the first arousing of the mind of awakening through parinirvāṇa itself — as already manifested within the womb, the womb becoming a single point through which every later stage of the path is compressed and made present at once.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種甚微細趣。何等為十？所謂：在母胎中，示現初發菩提心，乃至灌頂地；在母胎中，示現住兜率天；在母胎中，示現初生；在母胎中，示現童子地；在母胎中，示現處王宮；在母胎中，示現出家；在母胎中，示現苦行，往詣道場，成等正覺；在母胎中，示現轉法輪；在母胎中，示現般涅槃；在母胎中，示現大微細，謂：一切菩薩行一切如來自在神力無量差別門。佛子！是為菩薩摩訶薩在母胎中十種微細趣。若諸菩薩安住此法，則得如來無上大智慧微細趣。
"Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of most subtle destiny. What are these ten? Namely: within the womb, manifesting the initial arousing of the mind of awakening, all the way through to the ground of consecration; within the womb, manifesting dwelling in Tuṣita heaven; within the womb, manifesting the initial birth; within the womb, manifesting the stage of youth; within the womb, manifesting dwelling in the royal palace; within the womb, manifesting going forth from home; within the womb, manifesting austere practice, proceeding to the site of awakening, and attaining perfect awakening; within the womb, manifesting turning the wheel of dharma; within the womb, manifesting parinirvāṇa; and within the womb, manifesting the great subtlety, namely: the measureless, distinct gateways of every bodhisattva practice and every tathāgata's own sovereign spiritual power. Son of the Buddha! These are the ten kinds of subtle destiny of a bodhisattva-mahāsattva within the womb. If bodhisattvas abide within this dharma, they attain the tathāgata's own unsurpassed, great wisdom of subtle destiny.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種生。何等為十？所謂：遠離愚癡正念正知生；放大光明網普照三千大千世界生；住最後有更不受後身生；不生不起生；知三界如幻生；於十方世界普現身生；證一切智智身生；放一切佛光明普覺悟一切眾生身生；入大智觀察三昧身生；佛子！菩薩生時，震動一切佛剎，解脫一切眾生，除滅一切惡道，映蔽一切諸魔，無量菩薩皆來集會。佛子！是為菩薩摩訶薩十種生，為調伏眾生故，如是示現。
Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of birth. What are these ten? Namely: a birth that leaves behind foolishness, with right mindfulness and right knowing; a birth that emits a great net of light universally illuminating a great trichiliocosm; a birth that abides in the final existence, never again receiving a subsequent body; a birth of no birth and no arising; a birth that knows the three realms to be exactly like an illusion; a birth that universally manifests a body throughout the worlds of the ten directions; a birth of the body that realizes the wisdom of all-knowing wisdom; a birth of the body that emits the light of every buddha, universally awakening every sentient being; and a birth of the body that enters the samādhi of great wisdom's own observation. Son of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva is born, every buddha-land is shaken, every sentient being is set on the path to liberation, every evil destiny is extinguished, every māra is outshone, and measureless bodhisattvas all come together in assembly. Son of the Buddha! These are a bodhisattva-mahāsattva's ten kinds of birth; it is in order to tame sentient beings that he manifests in this way.
The list of birth-kinds names only nine distinct "birth of..." formulas before the text moves into a closing description of the birth's effects — every buddha-land shaken, every māra outshone, measureless bodhisattvas gathering — and then calls the whole set "ten kinds of birth." This translation represents the count exactly as the source gives it, the same way an earlier list's eleven items under a stated count of ten were represented earlier in this fascicle-by-fascicle translation, without adjusting the source to resolve the discrepancy.
Part 794 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-nine. Part 795 opens ten reasons a bodhisattva smiles and makes a private vow to himself, beginning with the thought that he alone, among a world sunk in the mire of desire, can offer rescue.