Ten Clouds of Great Adornment
The bodhisattvas' own joy takes ten distinct forms: clouds of light, jeweled bells, music, and forms depicting their own vows, culminating in clouds of nāga kings raining fragrance and clouds of world-rulers proclaiming Samantabhadra's own practice.
Music That Names Every Karmic Fruit
Amid clouds of light, jeweled bells, and adorned bodies, the third cloud stands apart in tone: music whose very sound proclaims the karmic fruits and retributions of every sentient being — a note of sober honesty inside an otherwise celebratory display.
所謂:於念念中放大光明雲,充滿十方,悉能開悟一切眾生;出一切摩尼寶鈴雲,充滿十方,出微妙音,稱揚讚歎三世諸佛一切功德;出一切音樂雲,充滿十方,音中演說一切眾生諸業果報;出一切菩薩種種願行色相雲,充滿十方,說諸菩薩所有大願;出一切如來自在變化雲,充滿十方,演出一切諸佛如來語言音聲;出一切菩薩相好莊嚴身雲,充滿十方,說諸如來於一切國土出興次第;出三世如來道場雲,充滿十方,現一切如來成等正覺功德莊嚴;出一切龍王雲,充滿十方,雨一切諸香;出一切世主身雲,充滿十方,演說普賢菩薩之行;出一切寶莊嚴清淨佛剎雲,充滿十方,現一切如來轉正法輪。是諸菩薩以得不思議法光明故,法應如是,出興此等不可說佛剎微塵數大神變莊嚴雲。
Namely: in every single thought they emit clouds of great light, filling the ten directions, able to awaken every sentient being; they send forth clouds of every maṇi-jewel bell, filling the ten directions, giving forth a wondrous sound extolling and praising the merit of every buddha across the three times; they send forth clouds of every kind of music, filling the ten directions, their sound proclaiming the karmic fruits and retributions of every sentient being; they send forth clouds of every kind of form depicting the bodhisattvas' own vows and practices, filling the ten directions, proclaiming every great vow the bodhisattvas hold; they send forth clouds of every tathāgata's own sovereign transformation, filling the ten directions, giving forth the speech and sound of every buddha and tathāgata; they send forth clouds of bodies adorned with every one of the bodhisattvas' own marks, filling the ten directions, proclaiming the sequence in which every tathāgata rises and appears in every land; they send forth clouds of the sites of awakening of every tathāgata across the three times, filling the ten directions, manifesting the adornment of merit by which every tathāgata attains perfect awakening; they send forth clouds of every nāga king, filling the ten directions, raining down every kind of fragrance; they send forth clouds of the bodies of every ruler of the world, filling the ten directions, proclaiming Samantabhadra Bodhisattva's own practice; and they send forth clouds of every jeweled, adorned, pure buddha-land, filling the ten directions, manifesting every tathāgata turning the true wheel of dharma. Because these bodhisattvas have attained the inconceivable light of dharma, it is fitting that they should give rise to these very clouds of great, adorning spiritual transformation, as numerous as unspeakably many motes of dust in every buddha-land.
出一切音樂雲,充滿十方,音中演說一切眾生諸業果報 — clouds of every kind of music, their sound proclaiming the karmic fruits and retributions of every sentient being. Set between clouds praising every buddha's own merit and clouds depicting the bodhisattvas' own vows, this one alone turns outward toward ordinary sentient beings and their own consequences — beauty and moral accounting given the same voice, in the same cloud of sound.
Part 881 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-one. Part 882 turns to Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva, who rises to speak verses restating everything this vast display of clouds has just shown.