大方廣總持寶光明經

If one can give rise to a pure mind and intent

That teaching is supreme, most excellent

If one has attained the supreme and excellent

One can ever practice the conduct of the Pāramitās

If one has attained the Pāramitās

One can then accord with this Mahāyāna

If one has accorded with the Mahāyāna

One can then accord in making offerings to the Buddhas

If one has accorded in making offerings to the Buddhas

One then attains wisdom truly firm and solid

If one has attained firm and solid wisdom

One can ever behold the Buddhas, inconceivable

If one can behold the Buddhas, inconceivable

One beholds the Buddhas as neither coming nor abiding

If one can behold the Buddhas as neither going nor abiding

This Dharma in the world is ever undestroyed

If one beholds this Dharma as ever undestroyed

One is far removed from the suffering and affliction amassed

If one is far removed from the cause of afflictions

One can then teach the Dharma without limit

If one has attained the teaching of boundless Dharma

One then has loving-kindness within the world

If one employs the mind of loving-kindness within the world

One then holds firmly forever the great compassion

If one has attained loving-kindness preserved forever

One then for others fulfills the Dharma in abundance

If one attains the joy and bliss rooted in the Dharma

One is far removed from creating many transgressions

If one casts off the creating of transgressions

There is no self, no other, apart from sentient beings

If one realizes no-self, apart from sentient beings

That person can benefit self or benefit others

If one can benefit self or benefit others

One is far removed from the sufferings of saṃsāra

One shall attain a great power, inconceivable

If one attains a great power such as this

One then grasps the pure wisdom

If one has given rise to the pure wisdom

One plunges into the world to cultivate practice

If one can enter the place hard to cultivate

To ripen the world is truly difficult indeed

If one can ripen beings within the world

One amasses much wisdom within the world

If one attains this wisdom of the world

One can then accord with the Four Means of Embracing

If one can accord with the Four Means of Embracing

One then, for the world, gives generously and widely

If one, in the world, gives generously and widely

One then dwells in the power of skillful means and wisdom

If one attains the power of skillful means and wisdom

One then dwells in the valiant unsurpassed path

If one dwells in the valiant unsurpassed path

One utterly does not behold the hosts of Māra's armies

If one attains the non-beholding of Māra's armies

One can then be far removed from the four māra-paths

If one attains removal from the four māra-paths

One can then arrive at the stage of non-retrogression

If one can arrive at the stage of non-retrogression

One then is named the patience of the non-arising of dharmas

If one attains the patience of non-arising such as this

One receives the Buddha's prophecy, named Lamp of the World

If one receives the prophecy named Lamp of the World

One then dwells before all the Tathāgatas

If one can dwell before the Tathāgatas

One attains the Buddha's secret wisdom of transformation

If one attains the Tathāgata's wisdom of transformation

All the Tathāgatas grant their prophecy

If one attains the prophecy of all the Buddhas

All merits and virtues array and adorn

If one attains the array and adornment of merits

One attains the wondrous, blessed, pure body

If one attains such a pure body

One shall attain the shining radiance of the Golden Mountain

If one attains such radiance of the Golden Mountain

One then attains the thirty-two excellent marks

If one attains the thirty-two excellent marks

One then attains the fine marks adorning the body

If one has attained the fine marks of adornment

The body emits radiance illuminating all

If one attains radiance illuminating all

Immeasurable radiance adorns the body

If one attains such an adorned body

Radiance beneath the feet gives birth to lotus blossoms

If one attains radiance that produces lotus blossoms

One attains the Buddha-realm, seated upon the lotus

If one is granted by the Tathāgata to sit upon the throne

One then this very moment clearly sees the realms of the ten directions

If one attains clear sight of the realms of the ten directions

One teaches and transforms sentient beings as though doing nothing

If one attains teaching and transforming as though not acting

One then attains wisdom truly inexhaustible

If one attains inexhaustible wisdom

One speaks forth this inconceivable Dharma

If one attains the speaking of the inconceivable Dharma

One causes immeasurable beings to rejoice

Performing benefiting deeds, inconceivable

If one attains such manifold deeds

Each and every power of wisdom one should know

If one attains such power of wisdom

In the world, according to kind, one delivers the multitude of beings

If one attains, according to kind, the deliverance of the multitude

The wisdom of the lifespan of beings is all accomplished

If one attains such wisdom of past lives

The three karmas are pure, without interruption

If one attains the three karmas ever unbroken

By the power of one's own vow, according to what is sought

If one attains the power of the vow, according to what is sought

In accordance with sentient beings one manifests in many kinds

If one attains the manifesting in accordance with the many beings

One attains the inconceivable, precious sound

If one attains such a precious sound

One can give rise to the many kinds of sounds

Sending forth such fine voices

One can then pervade all the world-realms

Thus pervading all the world-realms

In each and every kṣaṇa, one should know

If one attains thus the understanding of others' minds

Neither arising nor ceasing, never retreating

If one departs from arising and ceasing, never retreating

All obstructions and afflictions arise no more

If one attains that afflictions arise no more

The Dharma-body's merit and wisdom are full

If one attains the Dharma-body, complete in wisdom

The Dharma's practice radiates, illumining the world

If one attains the radiance illumining the world

One then attains the Ten Grounds and the ten kinds of body

If one attains the Ten Grounds and the ten kinds of body

One then attains the Prajñā path of liberation

The crown-anointing adornment is the supreme

If one attains such crown-anointing

The path of Samādhi is thoroughly accomplished

When such Samādhi is thus realized

One attains the sight of all the Buddhas of the ten directions

If one beholds all the Buddhas

Thus the Buddhas can anoint the crown

One then attains the Buddhas' stroking of the head

One then can transform and manifest within the Dharma of emptiness

Thus transforming and manifesting within empty space

According to place, according to abode, ever firm and steadfast

If one attains, according to place, the firm steadfastness

In the heavens and among humankind, none can compare

So that humans and gods can scarcely measure

Thus one can depart from all such forces

Beyond all measure, departing from words

This is: all forces are non-existent

Thus all forces being non-existent

Hearing the name, beholding the body, are skillful means

Even unto skillful means, it is thus

One can act as a benefactor for the world

Again named the Unfailing Great Hero

Sparing nothing in compassion, one speaks the wondrous Dharma

For those in evil destinies, one transforms the multitude of beings

Expounding the Jewel-Light, the supreme vehicle

Like the Vajra, a cloud of jewels gathered

The Buddha-nature is like the great vast ocean

Neither increasing nor decreasing, neither harmed nor destroyed

Boundless merit and virtue are likewise so

There is never a time without the hearing of the Dharma

From the Buddha it manifests, bringing awakening

Beholding it is like a great treasury of the Dharma

This can teach the Dharma, departing from delusion

The world-realms of the ten directions are without hindrance

Like the light of the moon, illumining all

Teaching and transforming sentient beings with a thousand skillful means

Kṣaṇa after kṣaṇa, the Buddha awakens

One then beholds the world-realms of the ten directions

Ever turning the Dharma-wheel, aiding the world

Valiantly transforming throughout the ten directions

Again the Śrāvakas and Pratyekabuddhas

Boundless transformations, the Buddha's adornment

Again passing through inconceivable kalpas

Causing sentient beings to come and go and hear

If there be men and women, boys and girls

Gods, humans, asuras, dragon-kings, and the rest

Yakṣas, even unto Mahoragas

For the sake of liberating wisdom, all can behold

If within the world there are many kinds

According to their speech, all becomes alike

All who are valiant clearly behold

Thus the valiant ones all observe

The Ocean-Seal samādhi arises from the mouth

Having thus attained the Ocean-Seal, the host of samādhis

How fine, how inconceivable, time after time

Adorned beyond thought, in but a kṣaṇa

One makes offerings to the Tathāgatas of the ten directions

Having thus made offerings of many kinds

One again attains radiance adorning the body

If one attains the inconceivable radiance

One then attains boundless wisdom of liberation

If one attains boundless wisdom of liberation

One attains the inconceivable transforming body

If one attains such a transforming body

The mouth and the wisdom are both eloquent

If one attains the mouth and wisdom without hindrance

Generosity and transformation, inconceivable

If one attains generosity, inconceivable

Discipline, patience, and vigor are likewise so

If one attains discipline, patience, and vigor

The divine concentration and divine transformation, beyond measure

If one attains the Divine Concentration and divine penetrating transformations

One gives birth to the wisdom of skillful means and divine transformation

Having attained the wisdom of skillful means and divine transformation

One gives birth to a great many merits and virtues

From the Buddha's mouth arises Samādhi

The Samādhi enters into each mote of dust

All the motes of dust are entered into

Within each mote of dust, inconceivable

Each and every mote of dust is clearly seen

Thus the Buddha is within the many motes of dust

Therein each Buddha is clearly perceived

Each and every subtle and pure assembly

Unsurpassed, precious, the wondrous Dharma

Truly far removed, beyond the world

Going beyond the secret, surpassing all

Ever dispelling darkness, emitting radiance

Spreading everywhere without end

If one can behold a single ray of light

Thus all the motes of dust

This sage practices the Samādhi

And straightway, boundlessly, attains liberation

By the power of Samādhi, one makes offerings to the Buddhas

Having made offerings to all the Tathāgatas

Again from the hands one transforms a thousand myriads

Acting as great heroes and making offerings

Even unto the fine and beautiful flowers of the ten directions

Fragrance spreading everywhere, a wholly rare scent

Each and every one of those hands bestows generously

From the root of Bodhi unto the place of the Buddha

Worth a thousand myriads, fragrant garments

The many kinds of banners and jeweled canopies

Jambūnada gold used for adornment

From within those hands one gives in charity

Boundless, all receive and enjoy

Pure offerings to the seers

Whatever is in the hand, all is given in charity

At the place where the Buddha was awakened at the root

Even unto all the kinds of music

Beating drums sounding forth fine notes

All elegant music, flutes and pipes

Each and every one within the hand is complete

Ever praising the World-Honored One

Each and every one extolling the true virtue

Boundless, all throughout the ten directions

Each and every one created from the hands

Or, within the radiance, one fashions Buddhas

On every side, lively in their actions

The fragrant scent floats throughout the Buddha-lands

Offering all the lamps of the world

The beautiful radiance just pleasing to the mind

Lotus pavilions, inconceivable

Lotus blossoms of beautiful hue, beyond count

Each and every one offered to the Buddhas

Emitting great radiance, fashioning beautiful flowers

Each and every wondrous flower like an ocean

Thus the beautiful flowers all spread everywhere

Widely making offerings to the Buddhas

Emitting great radiance, gathering fragrance

Each and every wondrous ocean of fragrance

Thus the fragrant scents float everywhere

Widely making offerings to the Buddhas

Emitting great radiance, anointing fragrance for offering

Each and every fragrant anointing like a sea of clouds

Thus the fragrant anointings all pervade everywhere

Widely making offerings to the Buddhas

Emitting great radiance, fashioning beauty

Each and every wondrous sea of beautiful clouds

Thus the beautiful tresses all spread out long

Further making offerings to the Buddhas

Emitting great radiance, precious fragrance

Each and every offering of fragrance like an ocean

Thus the fragrant scents all float everywhere

Vastly making offerings to the Buddhas

Emitting great radiance, beautiful garments

Each and every wondrous garment like clouds and water

Thus the beautiful garments all pervade everywhere

Vastly making offerings to the Buddhas

Emitting great radiance, adornments beautiful

Each and every wondrous canopy like a sea of clouds

Thus the beautiful canopies all pervade everywhere

Pervadingly making offerings to the Buddhas

Emitting great radiance, jewels beyond price

Each and every wondrous cloud of jewels appearing

Thus the precious things all pervade everywhere

Widely making offerings to the Buddhas

Emitting great radiance, beautiful lotus blossoms

Many kinds of lotus blossoms numerous as the sea

Thus the many flowers all pervade everywhere

Widely making offerings to the Buddhas

Emitting great radiance upon the pavilions

Each and every garland numerous as the sea

Thus the garlands transform and pervade everywhere

Widely making offerings to the Buddhas

Emitting great radiance, banners adorning

Those banners blue, yellow, red, and white

Countless beautiful things used for adornment

Banners beautifying the Buddha-lands

Each and every adorned with nets of Maṇi jewels

Banners and jeweled canopies like woven flowers

Here is sent forth what is like the Buddha's voice

One can dwell before the Tathāgata

Suppose one makes offering to a single Buddha

The hands themselves supply beyond all count

Thus even unto all the Buddhas

This mind transforms—the Samādhi

Subduing the world, the wisdom of spiritual penetration

This is the supreme Samādhi

One can perform all the skillful means

Thus delivering and transforming sentient beings

Some make offerings to the Buddhas

Many kinds of generosity, inconceivable

Pure precepts and virtue, cultivating austerities

Inexhaustible patience and endurance, never retreating

Or one can be diligent together with valiant

Peace and joy, divine concentration, wholesomely cultivated

Wisdom realizing all the meanings

Performing all the wholesome skillful means

Or practicing loving-kindness, compassion, and joy and equanimity

Joint endeavor, kind speech, and benefiting others

Through wisdom one amasses the meritorious deeds

Liberation through the four unto the twelve links

Or one has the faculties and powers, understanding what is done

Within the Śrāvaka Vehicle one attains liberation

Contemplating conditions purely, the Pratyekabuddha Vehicle

Spiritual penetration and transformation, the supreme vehicle

Or one beholds impermanence and the afflictions of suffering

There is no body or life at all

There is no affliction to cause obstruction

The power of Samādhi can dissolve them away

For the sake of the world, one is diligent

Proclaiming the wondrous Dharma, delivering the multitude of beings

Praying that all may attain liberation

Guiding sentient beings according to the world

Together with the many forms hard to measure

The spiritual penetration secretly proclaims the Samādhi

Solemnly upholding, joyfully delighting, one can transform

According with intention, leading the world

All made joyful and at peace

Reflect: sentient beings are hard to forsake

If one meets the hungry and thirsty among beings

Each and every one—peace and joy one brings to aid them

All joy then arises from the mind

For the sake of the world one opens it wide and reveals

Ever using fine flavors for food and drink

Each and every one served as from a storehouse

Wealth and goods, as a king, I cast all aside

To all the world I give according to their wish

Preserving the fine and beautiful marks of the body

Lofty and lofty, the great conduct ever unmoving

Anointing the fragrance of flowers within the mind

Manifesting form and feature to deliver the multitude

Beholding all joys, one gives rise to gladness

Lofty wisdom in its many forms and features

Beholding the supreme matter in its many forms and features

According with intention, instructing the world

The Kalaviṅka sends forth its wholesome sound

White cranes and precious birds all sing

Beholding the heavens, sending forth wondrous sounds

Ever expounding the liberating Dharma of the Tathāgata

The eighty-four thousand of the Tathāgata's treasury

All to the utmost can one accomplish

The distinctions of the wondrous Dharma one should also know

According with intention, delivering and transforming sentient beings

Sentient beings in suffering all share the same course

Neither evil nor good, yet sharing the same fruit

Performing all the deeds of action

According with intention, delivering and transforming sentient beings

If one meets calamity giving rise to suffering

Behold this as hard to bear

In place of sentient beings, one takes on the sufferings

To bring peace and joy to all the world

If the Dharma either exists or does not exist

Without wisdom, without merit, there is no liberation

Like a king who is compared, together extolling

Saving sentient beings from suffering, departing from birth and death

One can depart from craving and the multitude that binds fast

The mind is called the world's lord of liberation

All who desire joy to the utmost should transcend

Far removed, in liberation the radiance shines

Again one emits ten other kinds of radiance

One can act as a sage for the sake of skillful means

All that the Holy Ones do, one clearly knows

Contemplating the world, transforming according with intention

Sentient beings are likewise of Immeasurable Life

Surely at peace and joyful

Birth, aging, sickness, and suffering cannot reach them

Resolutely they themselves behold impermanence passing

Thus sentient beings delight in the radiance

The world, deluded and dim, is like a lamp's light

Aging, sickness, death, and suffering are all amassed

The world guides the multitude of sentient beings

In the ten directions, diligent in the four fearlessnesses

The Tathāgata's eighteen exclusive dharmas

I reflect at length upon the great merit and virtue

For the sake of the world I perform the Buddha's work

Like the magical arts of the world

Which can manifest many kinds of differing forms and features

Beholding all the Buddhas' transformations and the rest

Thus the spiritual transformations guide all kinds

I, for the sake of skillful means, perform many kinds

Wholesome words and parables for sentient beings

Like the lotus blossom unstained by mud

According with intention, creating many distinctions

Beautiful flowers of benefit, much extolled

Dancing and singing, the outward marks

Pavilions adorned, dancing in flowing motion

Like a garden manifesting features unlike one another

Or becoming a merchant in the rural villages

An elder buying goods, arriving from the city

Together with the great ministers and envoy-soldiers

Many kinds of medicines and treatises and treatise-masters

Or in the open fields a great tree

Precious gems and fine medicines beyond measure

The wish-fulfilling Maṇi made beautiful

For those who have lost the way, one becomes a guide

Even unto the future, being born into the world

Sentient beings know not the karma they themselves create

Managing farming and all skillful means

The world's trades and crafts of many kinds

Or manifesting wrath without tenderness

To bring peace and joy to all sentient beings

Clear and bright, the discourses of the differing dharmas

That Buddha opens the path of radiance

If those supreme deeds the Buddha has performed

In the heavens and among humankind, all attain liberation

If one leaves home to cultivate austerities

Opening and revealing the supreme all-wisdom

If there be heretics who also leave home

Ever keeping silence like the Buddha

Amid the dust unmoved, with the marks of a Śramaṇa

And themselves can rely upon the Buddha's teaching

Or can ever uphold and cast off the Dharma-body

Or grasp at existence, grasp at non-existence

Long-haired, long-bearded, with the marks of a youth

And themselves rely upon their root teacher

Or there are deeds done in five fashions through the day

The dog-vow, the ox-vow, garments of deerskin

Coming and going three times to make offerings

And themselves rely upon their root teacher

Or one can delight in the wisdom of the devas

Neither wholesome nor evil, abandoning cause

Seeking the source and origin of food and drink

Grasping at fine flavors, hard to understand the Dharma

Or sitting still in places of red garments

Or blackening the body, or lying upon grass

Holding a staff that bears a name, also cultivating practice

And themselves rely upon their root teacher

Even unto each and every one of those heretics

All are caused to depart from their bonds

They make wisdom and austerities aplenty

Thus the heretics are all guided

The world's every kind is all taught and transformed

Wrong views causing error in the root and the spirit

For their sake, with skillful means, one proclaims the wondrous Dharma

Teaching this true Dharma, bidding them practice

Or speaking the Mahāyāna in true and direct words

The secret essentials of the true Dharma in fine and beautiful words

Or upon the right path speaking true words

Therein sometimes speaking subtle phrases

Or through the written word one attains liberation

The collected Dharma's meaning, the phrases of the Vajra

Wisdom destroying the words of the heretics

Treatises of many kinds, words of liberation

Or among humankind speaking spirit-mantras

Proclaiming all the fine and beautiful phrases

Therein again there are the words of the Buddhas

The dragon-kings and yakṣas also have their speech

Or like the rākṣasas who have much to say

Yakṣas, Kumbhāṇḍas, Gandharvas

The kinnara women who can dance and sing

Expounding the wondrous Dharma's meaning of liberation

For the sake of wisdom they speak the Dharma

Whether Buddha or Dharma, it is likewise so

The path of wisdom is the inconceivable Dharma

Speaking this transforming Samādhi

Clearly explaining the world's Samādhi

Causing all the world

To either emit radiance, inconceivable

The radiance illumines all sentient beings

Or emit radiance named Wondrous Contemplation

Even unto sentient beings who through this gain faith

They attain realization of the Dharma not closely examined

Unsurpassed Wisdom and the Unsurpassed Person

They attain sight of the Buddhas and hearing of the Dharma

Or they behold the Saṅgha possessing merit and virtue

Beholding the stūpa, praising the Buddha as truly rare

And beholding the pure and bright radiance

Or one emits radiance named Universal Illumination

Illumining throughout all the world

Each and every mote of dust is all known

For the sake of bringing peace and joy to the world

That radiance then illumines the world

Ever using bright lamps to make offerings to the Buddhas

After making offerings of bright lamps

The world becomes the lord of that radiance

Or it may be a lamp-wick or lamp-oil

Wood and grass and refuse together with that lamp

Fragrance wafting sweetly, lamps of treasure

All the radiance makes offerings to the Buddhas

Again one emits radiance named Universal Illumination

All can observe the sentient beings

Craving and saṃsāra, the sea of birth and death

For the sake of rescuing the sentient beings

The radiance shines into the saṃsāra of craving

All bring benefit and joy to the multitude of sentient beings

All attain departure from the four kinds of māra

Suffering and oppression are turned to peace and joy

Making the beautiful ones not few in number

Or upon rivers and waters making boats and rafts

Pretending to scold and revile, the praise extinguished

The radiance there illumines to the very end

Far removed from craving, it aids with benefit and joy

Teaching the Dharma and transforming the path is likewise so

One is bathed by the Buddha with the sweet-dew water

To save the world from hunger and thirst as well

Or making pools and ponds or wells of water

Distorting, fabricating, one accomplishes awakening

Portion by portion of craving and desire, extolling and praising concentration

All craving and desire is dissolved away

Pitying sentient beings, one emits radiance

That radiance illumines all the sentient beings

That joy transforms, giving rise to awakening

Thought after thought, the samādhi I shall attain

Adorned with fine marks, seated upon the lotus dais

With great compassion pitying all the sentient beings

Ever and always expounding the Buddha's merit and virtue

Emitting radiance to give rise to gladness

Again one emits radiance named Pleasing the Mind

This radiance can awaken sentient beings

Toward the Buddha and toward the Dharma giving rise to love and reverence

And can rejoice together with the Saṅgha

Realizing the Buddha-Dharma, giving rise to a joyful mind

And can again await the Saṅgha

Straightway paying homage to the Tathāgata's holy merit and virtue

Thus attaining what the Buddha did, hard to do

Meeting the Tathāgatas and all the wholesome dharmas

Attaining the supreme conduct of patient endurance

Awakening many kinds of sentient beings

Mindful of the Buddha, mindful of the Dharma, the holy merit and virtue

Each and every merit, the mind awakening

Causing radiance as one requests

Again one emits radiance into merit and virtue

This radiance can awaken sentient beings

Giving away in charity countless many kinds

Exhorting toward the unsurpassed great Bodhi

What is sought, as one wishes, is all fulfilled

Thus many kinds of things one can give

All, according with intention, are given away

Amassing that merit, one emits radiance

Thus this wisdom emits radiance

That radiance illumines the sentient beings

A single Dharma, spoken by the mouth, is never exhausted

Benefiting and proclaiming, one can observe

The Dharma-wisdom subdues the sentient beings

Wisdom can lay it all bare

Having proclaimed the lofty meaning of the wondrous Dharma

The wisdom then emits a great radiance

If one attains wisdom emitting radiance

That radiance can illumine the sentient beings

Sentient beings are not non-existent, without arising and ceasing

The self-nature of all dharmas is no-nature

Like an illusion, like dew, like the moon upon water

Like a dream, again like a reflection in a mirror

The Dharma has no lord, resting upon emptiness

Ever practicing, it gives birth to the lamp of wisdom

The power of the Dharma transforms and emits radiance

That radiance awakens the sentient beings

Who attains the inexhaustible dhāraṇī

Guarding the Tathāgatas' wholesome Dharma-treasury

Having cultivated the dhāraṇī of the wondrous Dharma

The Great Sage ever upholds and protects all the dharmas

Proclaiming this Dharma for the sake of the world

One then makes that Dharma emit radiance

Or casting off much, one emits radiance

That radiance can awaken the sentient beings

Impermanent, not lasting long—know peace and joy

Thus far removed, all attain realization

If the sentient beings find the self hard to subdue

Let them know the self-nature is like floating clouds

Knowing this, the bright wisdom then is at peace and ease

This is generosity emitting radiance

Again one emits radiance named Repentance

Illumining every place of the sentient beings

Having purely repented through the precepts of moral discipline

The mind departs from illusion and delusion, and shall become Buddha

If the sentient beings, through upholding the precepts

Their present karma dissolved, give rise to purity

Equal to the giving rise of the Bodhi-mind

The radiance reaches forth to the place of repentance

Patient endurance emits radiance for the sake of solemn adornment

That radiance illumines all the sentient beings

The angry mind, utterly evil, the intent hard to tame

First of all, the matter of patience dispels it entirely

One's own karma is hard to do; patient endurance and the rest

In the mind that is unmoved—that is Bodhi

Ever praising the matter of patient endurance

This is patient endurance acting as adornment

Again one emits radiance, brighter and clearer

Illumining the indolence of the sentient beings

The Three Jewels, supreme and wondrous, the many skillful means

Continuing on long, one can make offerings

The Three Jewels in many kinds, the many skillful means

Having continually, by skillful means, made offerings

One can then depart from the four evil māras

One then attains the unsurpassed great Bodhi

Teaching sentient beings to practice with vigor

Thus having made offerings to the Three Jewels

Ever upholding the wondrous Dharma, heedless of the time

The wholesome radiance, indeed, shall be attained at once

Again one emits radiance, making patient endurance

Universally delivering and awakening the sentient beings

Awakening, they depart from greed, hatred, and delusion

Attaining a mind of equanimity, without interruption

Therefore the deeds of karma are all dissolved away

Far removed from all that is unwholesome

Extolling and praising the matter of meditative concentration

Patient endurance, pure, emits radiance

Wisdom solemnly adorns and emits radiance

Ever pointing out their delusion to the sentient beings

If one speaks the true Dharma, one attains liberation

Ever realizing and entering the wisdom of the faculties

If one hears the true Dharma, one attains liberation

Having transformed back and forth the very source

One then attains the sun of Samādhi

Attaining the radiance of the Buddha-wisdom

The king possesses, and again can give

For the sake of seeking the wondrous Dharma in awakening

One can then ever speak the wondrous Dharma

The radiance of wisdom becomes the adornment

If the Buddha emits this radiance

That radiance illumines all the sentient beings

Countless, hard to comprehend, a thousand Tathāgatas

Appear seated thereon, upon the beautiful lotus

The Great Awakened Tathāgata, liberating the self

Boundless transformations speaking the Buddha's words

Becoming Buddha-Tathāgatas, illumining strongly forth

One then attains the shining of this radiance

Again one emits radiance, bestowing fearlessness

Toward the much-terrified sentient beings

Seeking to pass beyond their bondage

Thus the terrified ones, those in distress

And the sentient beings attain peace and ease

One can then depart from killing and harm

Saving the karma, that which is hard to save

Attaining great fearlessness, one emits radiance

Again one emits radiance named Peace and Joy

Causing the sickness and suffering swiftly to dissolve away

All maladies are treated and healed

The peace and joy of meditative concentration, the Samādhi

Many kinds of medicines together with flowers and fruits

Fragrance precious and rare, the scent of treasures

Fragrant water, drops of honey, and sesame oil

Food and drink as offerings, all in abundance

Beholding the Tathāgatas emitting radiance

Illumining to behold the sentient beings at the time of life's end

Pointing them to mindfulness of the Buddha, they at once behold the Buddha

At life's end, they are surely born in the Buddha-land

When life has ended, if one is mindful of the Buddha

Beholding the Buddha-images, faith arises

The Buddha, for the sake of rebirth, delivers and saves

One attains sight of the Buddhas expounding the Dharma

Again one emits radiance named Dharma-Light

This radiance can awaken the sentient beings

Hearing the Dharma, printing and reciting the sūtras

Ever attaining love and delight in the dharmas

Opening the wondrous Dharma, truly beyond measure

Exhorting and seeking the wondrous Dharma, the intent complete

For the sake of the skillful means that protect this Dharma

Therefore, teaching the Dharma, one attains radiance

Again one emits radiance named Speech

The Buddha-sons awaken those sentient beings

The original vow resounds throughout the three-thousandfold realms

Hearing the Tathāgatas' many words

Loudly extolling the Great Holy Ones

A great and lofty voice like the sound of a bell

For the sake of the sentient beings, the Buddha's speech

Therefore one realizes the radiance of speech

Again one emits radiance, bestowing sweet dew

That radiance can awaken the sentient beings

Knowing when the sentient beings give rise to the mind

All merits and virtues are mutually responsive

Those countless sufferings and calamities

Ever empty and false, never at peace and ease

If one can halt all the calamities and disasters

Speaking the Dharma of sweet dew, all is then attained

Again one emits radiance named Supreme Victory

This radiance can awaken the sentient beings

The supreme precepts—these are the Samādhi

Hearing the Buddha's supreme great wisdom

Beyond measure, the pure precepts, the Samādhi

Wisdom foremost, the one of great capacity

Extolling and praising, bestowing awakening

They shall realize this radiance

For the sake of utterly exhausting the precious Dharma-jewel

This Dharma makes offerings to the Greatly Awakened

Thus making offerings to the Buddhas and the stūpas of the Buddhas

Sentient beings seeking the good, that it not decay

Giving all the precious things to become Buddhas

Thus, therefore, one emits the jeweled adornment

Again one emits radiance, Shining-Toward-the-Wondrous

This radiance awakens the sentient beings

The pleasing fragrance, smelled, is never foul

That makes the merit and virtue of the Tathāgata

In the heavens and among humankind, all give off fragrance

Used to make offerings to the Buddhas

Making offerings to the many stūpas of the Buddhas without end

Therefore one emits this radiance.