Every Buddha, Every Disciple, Every Bodhisattva
Gopā's knowledge extends from sentient beings to the buddhas themselves — their first raising of the mind, their attainment, their teaching — then to every śrāvaka and pratyekabuddha's own path to parinirvāṇa, and finally to every bodhisattva's own progress through the ten grounds, down to the very bottom of omniscience itself.
Buddhas, and Their Own Disciples' Cultivation to Parinirvāṇa
「知彼諸佛初發道心，行菩薩行，出生一切諸大願海。知彼供養一切諸佛，具菩薩行，成等正覺，轉正法輪，現自在力，化度眾生。知彼眷屬聲聞、緣覺之所修行，過去修習一切善根，得明淨智，成就寂滅自在法門，顯現種種自在神力，教化眾生而般涅槃。」
"I know those buddhas' own first raising of the mind of the path, practicing the bodhisattva's own practice, giving rise to the whole ocean of every great vow. I know how they made offerings to every buddha, became fully endowed with the bodhisattva's own practice, attained the most correct awakening, turned the wheel of the true Dharma, manifested sovereign power, and transformed and delivered sentient beings. I know the practice cultivated by their own retinues of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas — how, in ages past, they cultivated every root of goodness, attained bright, pure wisdom, accomplished the Dharma-gate of tranquil, sovereign cessation, manifested every kind of sovereign spiritual power, taught and transformed sentient beings, and entered parinirvāṇa."
Gopā's knowledge moves in a deliberate order — sentient beings first, then buddhas, then those buddhas' own śrāvaka and pratyekabuddha disciples — before turning, in what follows, to bodhisattvas last of all. This is not a random list but a hierarchy of the whole Buddhist cosmos, traced completely from beings still bound by karma to those already at parinirvāṇa's own threshold, with nothing in between left unaccounted for.
Bodhisattvas, Through Every Ground, to Omniscience's Own Bottom
「知彼眷屬諸菩薩眾，初發道心，修習善根，出生種種諸大願行，成就滿足諸波羅蜜，種種莊嚴菩薩之道、菩薩諸地自在之力、菩薩諸地住、分別修習諸菩薩地、淨菩薩地、修菩薩地、菩薩諸地相、菩薩諸地智、菩薩諸攝智、菩薩善巧方便教化眾生、菩薩諸住、菩薩圓滿淨行、菩薩自在行、菩薩三昧海、菩薩方便，於念念中悉知菩薩諸三昧海，一切種智，電光法雲，得諸法忍，盡一切智底。」
"I know their own retinues of bodhisattvas — their first raising of the mind of the path, cultivating roots of goodness, giving rise to every kind of great vow and practice, becoming fully endowed with and perfecting every pāramitā, adorning the bodhisattva's own path in every kind of way, the sovereign power of the bodhisattva's own grounds, the bodhisattva's own abiding in every ground, discerning and cultivating every bodhisattva ground, purifying the bodhisattva's own ground, cultivating the bodhisattva's own ground, the marks of the bodhisattva's own every ground, the wisdom of the bodhisattva's own every ground, the bodhisattva's own every gathering wisdom, the bodhisattva's own skillful means in teaching and transforming sentient beings, the bodhisattva's own every abiding, the bodhisattva's own perfect, pure conduct, the bodhisattva's own sovereign conduct, the bodhisattva's own ocean of samādhi, and the bodhisattva's own skillful means; within every single thought-moment, I fully know the bodhisattva's own every ocean of samādhi, every kind of wisdom, the lightning-cloud of the Dharma, the attainment of every acceptance of the Dharma, and reach the very bottom of omniscience itself."
This single sentence names the bodhisattva's own path through nearly every technical category this collection has traced across all fifty-three teachers — the ten grounds by name, their marks, their wisdom, their sovereign power, their conduct, their samādhis — compressed into one unbroken chain of knowledge Gopā claims to hold "within every single thought-moment." Fittingly, given that this whole teacher stands at the threshold of the Dharma-Cloud Ground, the very last of the ten, her own knowledge is described as reaching, in this one passage, "the very bottom of omniscience itself" — the floor beneath the entire structure this pilgrimage has been climbing.
Part 150 In Progress
Her knowledge of buddhas, disciples, and bodhisattvas is complete. Part 151 closes this whole answer — extending the very same knowledge across nine further categories of world beyond this Sahā world, and naming Vairocana's own root vow as its source.
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