The Bodhisattva as Physician and Dharma-King
Six more images follow in Samantabhadra's sequence: a physician who expounds eighty-four thousand gateways of remedy for the sickness of the three poisons, a dharma-king bestowing the treasures of awakening, a wheel-turner whose blade scatters every follower of another path, an ocean of wisdom no one can fathom, Mount Sumeru rising above the world, and an unshakeable diamond that crushes every māra and affliction.
Eighty-Four Thousand Gateways of Remedy
The physician image gives an exact number to the bodhisattva's teaching: not simply "many" remedies but eighty-four thousand distinct gateways, each addressing the sickness of the three poisons that torment sentient beings through the long night — a precision that treats the dharma itself as a pharmacy stocked for every possible affliction.
菩薩見眾生，三毒煩惱病，
種種諸苦惱，長夜所煎迫；
為發大悲心，廣說對治門，
八萬四千種，滅除眾苦患。
菩薩為法王，正道化眾生，
令遠惡修善，專求佛功德；
一切諸佛所，灌頂授尊記，
廣施眾聖財，菩提分珍寶。
菩薩轉法輪，如佛之所轉，
戒轂三昧輞，智莊慧為劍，
既破煩惱賊，亦殄眾魔怨，
一切諸外道，見之無不散。
"The bodhisattva sees sentient beings afflicted by the sickness of the three poisons, tormented through the long night by every kind of suffering and affliction; he gives rise to a mind of great compassion, widely expounding eighty-four thousand gateways of remedy, extinguishing every one of these afflictions.
The bodhisattva is a dharma-king, transforming sentient beings through the right path, causing them to stay far from evil and cultivate goodness, single-mindedly seeking the buddha's own merit; at the place of every buddha, he receives consecration and an honored prophecy, and widely bestows the treasures of every noble one, the jeweled treasure of the factors of awakening.
The bodhisattva turns the wheel of dharma just as the buddha himself turns it: the precepts its hub, samādhi its rim, wisdom its adornment and insight its blade; it breaks the bandit of affliction and destroys every enemy māra, and every follower of another path, upon seeing it, scatters without exception.
菩薩智慧海，深廣無涯際，
正法味盈洽，覺分寶充滿，
大心無邊岸，一切智為潮，
眾生莫能測，說之不可盡。
菩薩須彌山，超出於世間，
神通三昧峯，大心安不動；
若有親近者，同其智慧色，
逈絕眾境界，一切無不覩。
菩薩如金剛，志求一切智，
信心及苦行，堅固不可動；
其心無所畏，饒益諸群生，
眾魔與煩惱，一切悉摧滅。
The bodhisattva's own wisdom is an ocean, deep and vast without any shore or limit, brimming and overflowing with the flavor of the true dharma, filled to abundance with the treasure of the factors of awakening; the great mind is its boundless coast, and all-knowing wisdom is its tide — sentient beings can never fathom it, and it cannot be exhausted in the telling.
The bodhisattva is Mount Sumeru, rising far above the world, spiritual superknowledge and samādhi its peaks, the great mind settled and unmoving; whoever draws close to it takes on the very hue of its wisdom, standing utterly apart from every ordinary domain, visible to all without exception.
The bodhisattva is like a diamond, his resolve set on seeking all-knowing wisdom, his faith and austere practice firm and unshakeable; his mind has nothing at all to fear, benefiting the multitude of beings, and every māra and every affliction is entirely crushed.
若有親近者，同其智慧色 — whoever draws close to it takes on the very hue of its wisdom. Unlike the other mountain and ocean images in this sequence, which describe scale and stability, this line about Mount Sumeru adds something relational: proximity itself transmits color, the way standing near a mountain's own light changes what a climber's face looks like.
Part 805 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-nine. Part 806 continues the metaphor sequence with the bodhisattva as a great cloud of compassion raining down the water of eight merits, a walled city of true dharma, and a garuḍa lifting beings out of the great ocean of the three states of existence.