大方廣佛華嚴經

When the great bodhisattva gives various kinds of vehicles—vehicles made of gold, silver, and the seven precious substances, drawn by horses or elephants and adorned with pearls, jewels, and precious objects—as offerings to the Buddhas or presents them to stupas and shrines dedicated to the Buddhas, he dedicates this merit as follows:

May all sentient beings know how to make offerings to the unsurpassed fields of merit and firmly believe that offerings to the Buddhas bring immeasurable rewards. May all sentient beings single-mindedly turn toward the Buddhas and always encounter immeasurable pure fields of merit. May all sentient beings be neither stingy nor reluctant toward the Tathagatas and fully perfect the heart of great renunciation.

May all sentient beings practice giving in the presence of the Buddhas, leave behind the mind of the Two Vehicles, and attain the Tathagatas’ unobstructed liberation of omniscience. May all sentient beings practice inexhaustible giving in the presence of the Buddhas and enter the Buddhas’ immeasurable merit and wisdom. May all sentient beings enter the Buddhas’ supreme wisdom and become unsurpassed, pure kings of wisdom.

May all sentient beings attain the Buddhas’ unobstructed supernormal powers and freely go wherever they wish. May all sentient beings deeply enter the Mahayana, attain immeasurable wisdom, and abide immovably. May all sentient beings be able to bring forth the Dharma of omniscience and become unsurpassed fields of merit for humans and devas.

May all sentient beings harbor no malice or resentment in the presence of the Buddhas, diligently cultivate roots of goodness, and delight in seeking the Buddha’s wisdom. May all sentient beings spontaneously be able to reach every buddha-land, traverse the Dharma realm in a single instant, and never grow weary. May all sentient beings attain the bodhisattvas’ mastery of supernormal powers, manifest bodies throughout the Dharma realm, and draw near to and make offerings to all Buddhas.

May all sentient beings attain incomparable bodies that travel throughout the ten directions without weariness or aversion. May all sentient beings attain vast bodies capable of swift flight, freely reach wherever they intend, and never become indolent or delayed. May all sentient beings attain the Buddhas’ ultimate mastery and majestic power and, in a single instant, manifest the Buddhas’ supernormal transformations throughout the realm of space.

May all sentient beings cultivate practices of peace and bliss in accord with every bodhisattva path. May all sentient beings swiftly and completely practice the wisdom and supernormal powers of the Ten Powers. May all sentient beings equally enter the entire Dharma realm.

May all sentient beings never regress from Samantabhadra’s practices, reach the other shore, and attain omniscience. May all sentient beings ascend to the stage of incomparable wisdom, accord with the nature of phenomena, and perceive true principle. When offering vehicles to the Buddhas or to stupas and shrines dedicated to the Buddhas, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way because he wishes sentient beings to attain the Buddha Vehicle’s ultimate and unobstructed liberation.

When giving various kinds of vehicles to bodhisattvas and spiritual friends, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness as follows:

May all sentient beings always remember the teachings of spiritual friends, diligently preserve them, and never forget them. May all sentient beings receive the same benefits as spiritual friends, universally embrace all beings, and share one root of goodness with them. May all sentient beings draw near to, honor, and make offerings to spiritual friends, relinquishing all their possessions to accord with the wishes of those spiritual friends.

May all sentient beings acquire wholesome aspirations and never part from spiritual friends. May all sentient beings always encounter spiritual friends, respectfully serve them, and never disobey their teachings. May all sentient beings cherish spiritual friends, never part from them, never become estranged from them, and never offend them.

May all sentient beings be able to offer their bodies to spiritual friends, submit to their directions, and never disobey them. May all sentient beings be accepted by spiritual friends, attain the mastery of great loving-kindness, and leave evil far behind. May all sentient beings follow spiritual friends and hear the true Dharma taught by the Buddhas.

May all sentient beings share one root of goodness and one pure karmic result with spiritual friends, share the same practices and vows as the bodhisattvas, and ultimately attain the Ten Powers. May all sentient beings be able to receive and uphold the Dharma taught by spiritual friends and attain every samadhi, wisdom, and supernormal power. May all sentient beings be able to receive and uphold the entire true Dharma, cultivate its practices, and reach the other shore.

May all sentient beings ride the Mahayana without obstruction and ultimately accomplish the path of omniscience. May all sentient beings mount the vehicle of omniscience, reach the place of peace and security, and never regress. May all sentient beings know practices as they truly are and bring whatever Buddha-Dharma they hear to ultimate completion without ever forgetting or losing any of it.

May all sentient beings be accepted by the Buddhas and attain unobstructed wisdom. May all sentient beings attain mastery of supernormal powers and, wherever they wish to go, arrive there as soon as they think of it. May all sentient beings travel freely and teach beings everywhere, causing them all to abide in the Mahayana.

May all sentient beings never practice in vain but be carried by the vehicle of wisdom to the ultimate stage. May all sentient beings attain an unobstructed vehicle and use unobstructed wisdom to reach every place. When giving vehicles to spiritual friends, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way because he wishes all sentient beings to possess merit equal to that of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas.

When the bodhisattva gives precious vehicles to the Sangha, he immediately gives rise to a mind that studies every practice of giving; a mind of wisdom and skillful understanding; a mind of pure merit; a mind that accords with the practice of renunciation; a mind that recognizes the rarity of the Sangha Jewel; a mind of profound faith in the Sangha Jewel; and a mind that gathers in and preserves the true Dharma. Abiding in an unprecedented and supreme aspiration, he holds a great assembly of giving, produces immeasurable and vast merit, and deeply believes in the Buddha-Dharma, which cannot be obstructed or destroyed. He dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all sentient beings enter the Buddha-Dharma everywhere, remember it, and never forget it. May all sentient beings leave the ways of foolish ordinary beings and enter the company of sages and noble ones. May all sentient beings swiftly enter the community of noble ones and be able to teach the Buddha-Dharma in due sequence.

May all sentient beings be honored by the entire world, and may their words always be trusted and followed. May all sentient beings skillfully enter the equality of all phenomena and clearly understand that the intrinsic nature of the Dharma realm is nondual. May all sentient beings be born from the Tathagata’s realm of wisdom, with those who are disciplined and compliant as their retinue.

May all sentient beings abide in the undefiled Dharma and eliminate every affliction and defilement. May all sentient beings accomplish the unsurpassed Sangha Jewel, leave the ranks of ordinary beings, and enter the ranks of noble ones. May all sentient beings diligently cultivate wholesome dharmas, attain unobstructed wisdom, and possess unsurpassed merit.

May all sentient beings attain minds of wisdom unattached to the world and be as sovereign as kings amid assemblies. May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of wisdom and turn the wheel of the true Dharma. May all sentient beings possess supernormal powers and, in a single thought, be able to reach ineffably ineffable worlds.

May all sentient beings ride bodies like space, attain unobstructed wisdom, and penetrate all worlds. May all sentient beings enter all assemblies of the Buddhas throughout the entire realm of space and accomplish the foremost paramita. May all sentient beings attain supreme wisdom and light, agile bodies capable of reaching every buddha-land.

May all sentient beings attain boundlessly skillful miraculous powers and, in a single instant, manifest bodies everywhere. May all sentient beings attain bodies that depend on nothing and use supernormal power to appear everywhere like reflections. May all sentient beings attain inconceivable mastery of supernormal power and immediately appear before those ready to be liberated in order to teach, discipline, and tame them.

May all sentient beings attain unobstructed skillful means, enter the Dharma realm, and in a single thought travel throughout the lands of the ten directions. When giving precious vehicles to the Sangha, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way because he wishes sentient beings all to ride the unsurpassed vehicle of pure wisdom and turn the wheel of unobstructed wisdom throughout all worlds.

When the great bodhisattva gives precious vehicles to shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, he immediately gives rise to thoughts of fields of merit, merit, and reverence; a mind that produces merit and wisdom; a mind born from the power of the Tathagata’s merit; a mind cultivated throughout hundreds of thousands of kotis of nayutas of kalpas; a mind capable of cultivating bodhisattva practices for ineffable kalpas; a mind liberated from all the bonds of Mara; a mind that destroys all the armies of Mara; and a mind whose light of wisdom clearly illuminates the unsurpassed Dharma.

He dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all sentient beings be trusted by the world as the foremost fields of merit and fully perfect the unsurpassed dana-paramita. May all sentient beings abandon useless speech, delight in solitude, and have minds free of divided thoughts. May all sentient beings become the foremost pure fields of merit, gather in sentient beings, and cause them to cultivate meritorious karma.

May all sentient beings become profound abysses of wisdom capable of bringing immeasurable and innumerable wholesome fruits to sentient beings. May all sentient beings abide in unobstructed practice and fully possess the foremost pure fields of merit. May all sentient beings abide in the Dharma free from contention and understand that all phenomena are uncreated and take the absence of intrinsic nature as their nature.

May all sentient beings always draw near to unsurpassed fields of merit and cultivate immeasurable merit to perfection. May all sentient beings manifest immeasurable mastery of supernormal powers and gather in all conscious beings through pure fields of merit. May all sentient beings fully possess fields of inexhaustible merit capable of bestowing upon sentient beings the foremost fruit of the Buddha Vehicle.

May all sentient beings be true fields of merit, attain omniscience, and become inexhaustible accumulations of merit. May all sentient beings attain the Dharma that extinguishes offenses and completely receive and uphold the meanings of passages of the Buddha-Dharma that they have never heard before. May all sentient beings constantly and diligently listen to and receive the entire Buddha-Dharma and awaken to it all.

May all sentient beings constantly and diligently hear and accept the entire Buddha-Dharma and expound it in accordance with what they have heard. May all sentient beings faithfully understand and practice according to the Buddha-Dharma and abandon the wrong views of all ninety-six non-Buddhist schools. May all sentient beings always encounter sages and noble ones and increase their most excellent roots of goodness.

May all sentient beings always have minds of faith and delight in those endowed with wisdom, dwelling and rejoicing together with the noble sages. May all sentient beings, upon hearing a Buddha’s name, see that Buddha with their own eyes and not let the opportunity pass in vain. May all sentient beings skillfully discern and understand the Buddha-Dharma and be able to preserve, receive, and uphold it all.

May all sentient beings always delight in hearing the entire Buddha-Dharma, receiving, upholding, reading, reciting, revealing, and clearly explaining it. May all sentient beings faithfully understand the true merit of the Buddha-Dharma and relinquish all their possessions to honor it and make offerings to it. When giving precious vehicles to shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way because he wishes sentient beings all to accomplish the foremost pure wisdom and supernormal powers and, through diligent cultivation, attain the powers and fearlessnesses of wisdom.

The great bodhisattva gives precious vehicles even to the poor, destitute, orphaned, and forsaken, granting whatever they request. His heart remains joyful, without weariness, and he tells them, “I should have personally brought these things and distributed them among you; I would not dare make you endure the hardship of coming to seek me.” He dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all sentient beings ride the vast, unobstructed, non-regressing vehicle of the Dharma wheel and proceed directly to the inconceivable bodhi tree. May all sentient beings ride the great vehicle of pure Dharma wisdom and forever cultivate the bodhisattva path without regression. May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of the nonexistence of all phenomena, forever leave discrimination and attachment behind, and constantly cultivate the path of omniscience.

May all sentient beings ride the upright vehicle, free from flattery and deceit, and travel to the buddha-lands with freedom and without obstruction. May all sentient beings accord with and abide in the vehicle of omniscience and rejoice together in the Buddha-Dharma. May all sentient beings ride the flourishing, pure bodhisattva vehicle, fully possess the bodhisattvas’ ten paths of emancipation, and delight in samadhi.

May all sentient beings ride the four-wheeled vehicle: dwelling in a good land, relying upon virtuous people, accumulating excellent merit, and making great vows; through these four things, may they completely perfect all pure bodhisattva practices. May all sentient beings attain the vehicle of Dharma light that illuminates the ten directions and cultivate the powers of the Buddha’s wisdom. May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of the Buddha-Dharma and ultimately reach the other shore.

May all sentient beings ride the Dharma vehicle bearing blessings and goodness, revealing the true and peaceful path throughout the ten directions. May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of great giving and abandon stinginess. May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of pure morality and uphold boundlessly pure moral conduct.

May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of patience and leave anger behind. May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of great diligence, steadfastly cultivate excellent practices, and reach the path of bodhi. May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of meditative concentration, swiftly reach the seat of enlightenment, and realize the wisdom of bodhi.

May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of wisdom and skillful means and skillfully manifest transformation bodies throughout all buddha-lands in the Dharma realm. May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of the Dharma King, accomplish fearlessness, and constantly bestow the Dharma of omniscience upon all. May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of unattached wisdom, enter everywhere throughout the ten directions, and yet never move from the true nature of phenomena.

May all sentient beings ride the vehicle of the Buddha-Dharma, manifest birth throughout the lands of the ten directions, and never lose the path of the Mahayana. May all sentient beings ride the unsurpassed precious vehicle of omniscience and fully perfect Samantabhadra’s practices and vows. When giving various precious vehicles to all fields of merit, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way because he wishes sentient beings to possess immeasurable wisdom, rejoice with great delight, and ultimately all attain the vehicle of omniscience.

The great bodhisattva gives precious elephants and precious horses, adorned with golden howdahs, jeweled saddles, golden reins, and precious bells, to his parents, spiritual friends, and even the poor and destitute, without the slightest regret. He dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all sentient beings ride the well-tamed vehicle and increase the bodhisattvas’ merit. May all sentient beings attain the skillful vehicle capable of freely producing the entire Buddha-Dharma. May all sentient beings attain the vehicle of faith and understanding that universally illuminates the Tathagata’s unobstructed powers of wisdom.

May all sentient beings attain the vehicle of initiation and be able universally to set in motion all great vows. May all sentient beings fully possess the equal vehicle of the paramitas and perfectly accomplish all equal roots of goodness. May all sentient beings accomplish the precious vehicle that produces the unsurpassed jewel of wisdom.

May all sentient beings attain the vehicle adorned with bodhisattva practices, from which the flowers of bodhisattva samadhi blossom. May all sentient beings attain the swift and boundless vehicle, purify the bodhisattva mind throughout countless kalpas, and diligently contemplate and penetrate all phenomena. May all sentient beings accomplish the supreme, well-tamed Mahayana and, through skillful means, fully perfect the bodhisattva stages.

May all sentient beings accomplish the steadfast, lofty, and vast Mahayana capable of universally carrying all sentient beings to the stage of omniscience. When giving elephants and horses, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way because he wishes sentient beings all to ride the vehicle of unobstructed wisdom and perfect the Buddha Vehicle.

When giving various seats—such as precious lion seats adorned in immeasurable ways—to the Buddha, bodhisattvas, spiritual friends, the noble Sangha, Dharma masters, parents, elders, shravakas, pratyekabuddhas, those inclined toward the bodhisattva vehicle, stupas and shrines of the Tathagata, and even the poor and destitute, bestowing whatever they need, the bodhisattva dedicates this merit as follows:

May all sentient beings sit upon the seat of bodhi and be able to awaken to the true Dharma of the Buddhas. May all sentient beings sit upon the seat of mastery, attain mastery of the Dharma, and be able to subdue all the armies of Mara. May all sentient beings attain the Buddha’s sovereign lion seat and be looked up to by all sentient beings.

May all sentient beings attain ineffably ineffable, beautifully adorned precious seats and freely teach and transform sentient beings. May all sentient beings attain the supreme seat in all worlds, adorned by vast roots of goodness. May all sentient beings attain a seat extending throughout ineffably ineffable worlds, whose praises cannot be exhausted in countless kalpas.

May all sentient beings attain a seat that fills the entire Dharma realm. May all sentient beings attain an inconceivable precious seat and, in accordance with their original vows, bestow the gift of Dharma upon sentient beings. May all sentient beings attain a wondrous seat upon which they manifest the Buddhas’ ineffable supernormal powers.

May all sentient beings attain seats made of every jewel, every fragrance, every flower, every garment, every garland, every mani jewel, every vaidurya gem, and so forth; inconceivable precious seats, seats as vast as immeasurable worlds, seats of pure adornment, and vajra seats upon which they manifest sovereign majesty and attain unsurpassed perfect enlightenment. When giving precious seats, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way because he wishes sentient beings to attain the supramundane seat of great bodhi and spontaneously awaken to the entire Buddha-Dharma.

When the great bodhisattva, with a pure mind, offers immeasurable, supremely adorned precious canopies to the Buddhas and their stupas and shrines; or, for the sake of the Dharma, offers them to bodhisattvas, spiritual friends, great Dharma masters, the Sangha, parents, the Buddha-Dharma, those who have aroused the mind of bodhi, and even the poor and destitute, he dedicates all these roots of goodness as follows:

May all sentient beings diligently cultivate roots of goodness and always be protected by the Buddhas. May all sentient beings use merit and wisdom as a canopy and forever leave all afflictions behind. May all sentient beings shelter themselves with wholesome dharmas and extinguish the world’s defilements and feverish anguish.

May all sentient beings attain the treasury of wisdom, causing assemblies to delight in seeing them without ever becoming weary or satisfied. May all sentient beings shelter themselves with peaceful wholesome dharmas and ultimately never impair the Buddha-Dharma. May all sentient beings skillfully shelter their own bodies and ultimately attain the pure Dharma body.

May all sentient beings become vast canopies covering the world with the Ten Powers of wisdom. May all sentient beings attain wondrous wisdom that is never defiled or attached. May all sentient beings attain the canopy of one worthy of offerings, become fields of merit, and receive every offering.

May all sentient beings attain the supreme canopy and attain unsurpassed, spontaneous wisdom and awakening. When giving precious canopies, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way so that all sentient beings may attain sovereign canopies capable of preserving every wholesome dharma; covering everything—the whole of space, the Dharma realm, and all lands—with a single canopy; manifesting sovereign, non-regressing supernormal powers; adorning the worlds of the ten directions as offerings to the Buddhas; offering fine banners and beautiful precious canopies to all Buddhas; attaining universally adorned precious canopies that completely cover every buddha-land;

attaining vast precious canopies that cover all sentient beings and cause them to give rise to faith and understanding regarding the Buddhas; enabling all sentient beings to offer ineffable precious canopies to one Buddha and likewise make offerings to ineffably many Buddhas; causing all sentient beings to attain vast canopies of bodhi that cover all Buddhas; and causing all sentient beings to attain canopies adorned with mani jewels, canopies adorned with every fragrance, canopies adorned with every ornament, and canopies of pure adornment, spread with jeweled nets and hung with precious bells that stir in the wind and emit wondrous sounds, covering the bodies of the Buddhas in all worlds; and to attain unobstructed and unhindered canopies adorned with wisdom that cover all Buddhas.

Furthermore, he wishes all sentient beings to attain foremost wisdom; be adorned with the Buddhas’ merit; have pure aspirations regarding the Buddhas’ merit; attain immeasurable, boundless, precious, and sovereign minds; and completely attain mastery of wisdom. He also wishes sentient beings to cover all things with roots of goodness, accomplish the supreme precious canopy of wisdom, accomplish the precious canopy of the Ten Powers, attain mastery of all phenomena, and become Dharma Kings.

He further wishes sentient beings to attain sovereign minds of great majesty, attain vast and uninterrupted wisdom, and attain immeasurable merit that completely covers everything.

He further wishes all sentient beings to cover their own minds with the canopy of merit, shelter sentient beings with impartial minds, attain great impartial wisdom, attain great and skillful means of dedication, attain supremely pure minds of aspiration, attain pure and wholly wholesome minds of aspiration, and attain great dedication that covers all sentient beings.

Disciples of the Buddha! With a mind of pure faith and understanding, the great bodhisattva offers immeasurable banners of the finest and most wondrous beauty, adorned entirely with gold, jade, pearls, and jewels, to the Buddhas presently abiding and to the stupas and shrines of Buddhas who have entered nirvana. He may also offer them to the Dharma Jewel and Sangha Jewel; to bodhisattvas and spiritual friends; to shravakas and pratyekabuddhas; or give them to the great assembly and to all who come seeking them.

The great bodhisattva dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all sentient beings establish firm and indestructible banners of roots of goodness, merit, and virtue; establish banners of mastery over all phenomena, honoring, cherishing, and diligently preserving them; and always use precious silk to transcribe the true Dharma and safeguard the Dharma treasuries of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas.

May all sentient beings establish lofty and prominent banners and light lamps of wisdom that illuminate the world everywhere.

May all sentient beings establish steadfast banners that destroy all karmic works of Mara; establish banners of wisdom that no kind of Mara can destroy; and establish vajra banners of great wisdom that overcome all worldly arrogance.

May all sentient beings attain banners of wisdom whose great light universally illuminates the Dharma realm.

May all sentient beings possess immeasurable, adorned precious banners filling all worlds throughout the ten directions as offerings to the Buddhas.

May all sentient beings attain the Tathagata’s banner that overcomes the wrong views of all ninety-six non-Buddhist schools.

When giving banners, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way so that all sentient beings may attain the lofty, vast, and profound banner of bodhisattva practice, as well as the banner of the bodhisattvas’ pure path of practice and supernormal powers.

Disciples of the Buddha! The great bodhisattva opens precious treasuries and distributes hundreds of thousands of kotis of nayutas of precious objects to countless sentient beings, giving them whatever they desire without the slightest stinginess or reluctance.

The great bodhisattva dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all sentient beings always behold the Buddha Jewel, abandon ignorance, and cultivate right mindfulness.

May all sentient beings fully attain the radiant Dharma Jewel and safeguard the Dharma treasuries of the Buddhas.

May all sentient beings be able to gather in the entire Sangha Jewel, constantly providing for and making offerings to it without weariness.

May all sentient beings attain the unsurpassed mind-jewel of omniscience and a pure, non-regressing mind of bodhi.

May all sentient beings attain the jewel of wisdom, enter all phenomena everywhere, and have minds free of doubt.

May all sentient beings fully possess the bodhisattvas’ precious merits and reveal and expound immeasurable wisdom.

May all sentient beings attain immeasurable, subtle, and wondrous jewels of merit and cultivate the Ten Powers of perfect enlightenment.

May all sentient beings attain the wondrous samadhi and the sixteen jewels of wisdom and ultimately accomplish vast wisdom.

May all sentient beings become the foremost precious fields of merit and awaken to and enter the Tathagata’s unsurpassed wisdom.

May all sentient beings become unsurpassed and foremost precious kings and expound all phenomena with inexhaustible eloquence.

When giving various jewels, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way so that all sentient beings may accomplish the foremost jewel of wisdom and the Tathagata’s pure precious eye.

Disciples of the Buddha! The great bodhisattva regards all sentient beings in the world as his only child. Wishing them all to attain pure and adorned bodies, accomplish the supreme happiness of the world and the bliss of the Buddha’s wisdom, abide in the Buddha-Dharma, and benefit sentient beings, he diligently gives immeasurable kinds of beautiful and precious ornaments and dedicates the merit as follows:

May all sentient beings accomplish unsurpassed and beautiful adornments and use pure merit and wisdom to adorn humans and devas.

May all sentient beings attain the marks of pure adornment and adorn their bodies with pure merit.

May all sentient beings attain supremely wondrous marks of adornment and adorn their bodies with the marks produced by a hundred merits.

May all sentient beings attain unmixed and unconfused marks of adornment and adorn their bodies with every excellent mark.

May all sentient beings attain the pure and wholly wholesome adornment of speech and fully possess inexhaustible eloquence.

May all sentient beings attain the adornment of voice endowed with merit, their pure voices bringing joy to those who hear them.

May all sentient beings attain the Buddha’s delightful adornment of speech, causing sentient beings who hear the Dharma to rejoice and cultivate pure practices.

May all sentient beings attain the adornment of mind, enter profound meditative concentration, and behold all Buddhas everywhere.

May all sentient beings attain the adornment of dharani that illuminates the entire Buddha-Dharma. May all sentient beings attain the adornment of wisdom and adorn their minds with the Buddha’s wisdom.

When giving various ornaments, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way so that all sentient beings may fully possess immeasurable Buddha-Dharmas, be perfectly adorned with merit and wisdom, and forever leave behind all arrogance and heedlessness.

Disciples of the Buddha! The great bodhisattva gives radiant mani jewels and precious jewels from his topknot to sentient beings without stinginess or reluctance. He constantly and diligently cultivates the practice of being a great donor, studies the wisdom of giving, strengthens the faculty of renunciation, develops skillful wisdom, and broadens the measure of his mind.

The great bodhisattva dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all sentient beings attain the Buddhas’ Dharma of consecration and reach the stage of omniscience.

May all sentient beings perfect the crown protuberance and attain the foremost wisdom that reaches the other shore.

May all sentient beings use the wondrous jewel of wisdom to gather in every kind of being and ultimately bring them all to the summit of merit.

May all sentient beings accomplish the precious crown of wisdom and be worthy of receiving the reverence of the world.

May all sentient beings adorn their heads with the crown of wisdom and become sovereign Dharma Kings.

May all sentient beings bind the radiant pearl of wisdom upon the crowns of their heads, beyond the sight and reach of anyone in the world.

May all sentient beings be worthy of receiving the prostrations of the world and accomplish the crown of wisdom that illuminates the Buddha-Dharma.

May all sentient beings wear crowns adorned with the Ten Powers and fully possess pure wisdom.

May all sentient beings reach the summit above the great earth, attain omniscience, perfect the Ten Powers, and vanquish all kinds of Mara at the summit of the Desire Realm.

May all sentient beings become unsurpassed and foremost crown-kings and attain the radiant crown of omniscience, which nothing can obscure.

When giving precious crowns, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way so that sentient beings may attain the foremost stage of pure wisdom and take wisdom itself as their wondrous, radiant mani jewel.

Disciples of the Buddha! The great bodhisattva sees sentient beings treacherously seized, shackled, and chained in dark prisons, suffering intensely with no one to rescue them. He then risks and relinquishes his wealth, wife, children, and even his own body, entering the prison to rescue those sentient beings, as did the Great Compassion Bodhisattva and the Wondrous-Eyed King Bodhisattva. After rescuing them, he provides everything they need and enables them to dwell in peace and security. Only then does he bestow upon them the unsurpassed jewel of Dharma, causing them to cultivate it, leave heedlessness behind, plant roots of goodness, and never regress from the Buddha-Dharma.

Disciples of the Buddha! When the great bodhisattva rescues sentient beings in this way, he dedicates this merit as follows:

May all sentient beings ultimately be liberated from the bonds of craving and attachment. May all sentient beings cut off the current of birth and death and ascend the shore of wisdom. May all sentient beings eliminate ignorance, give rise to and increase wisdom, and forever end the afflictions.

May all sentient beings sever the bonds of the three realms, attain omniscience, and reach ultimate liberation. May all sentient beings forever end every affliction and reach the other shore of unobstructed wisdom. May all sentient beings leave behind the movement of thoughts, conceptualization, and discrimination and enter the unmoving ground of bodhi-wisdom.

May all sentient beings leave far behind every worldly desire and remain unattached within the three realms. May all sentient beings attain supreme aspirations and always have the Buddhas teach the Dharma to them. May all sentient beings attain liberated minds that are unattached and unbound, as vast as the Dharma realm and as ultimate as space.

May all sentient beings attain the bodhisattvas’ supernormal powers, travel to every world, discipline sentient beings, and cause them to leave worldliness behind and abide in the Mahayana. When rescuing sentient beings from the suffering of imprisonment, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way so that sentient beings may universally enter the Tathagata’s stage of wisdom.

Disciples of the Buddha! The great bodhisattva sees prisoners with cangues around their necks and their hands and feet bound, about to be executed—whether by having their flesh sliced off, being pierced with spears, being burned by fire, or being beheaded—forced to leave their families and relatives and undergo every kind of suffering. The bodhisattva immediately gives his own body to suffer in their place, as did Ajita Bodhisattva, King of Supreme Practices Bodhisattva, and others.

Disciples of the Buddha! When the great bodhisattva relinquishes his own body and life to rescue sentient beings, he dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all sentient beings attain the ultimate end of bodily life and forever leave behind all calamities, oppression, and anguish. May all sentient beings rely upon the Buddhas, abide securely, and receive predictions of their future buddhahood. May all sentient beings universally rescue conscious beings, cause them to leave fear behind, and forever escape the lower realms.

May all sentient beings attain every form of longevity and enter the deathless realm of wisdom. May all sentient beings forever leave behind enemies, dangers, and suffering and always be accepted by the Buddhas and spiritual friends. May all sentient beings abandon all evil karma involving blades, swords, and weapons and cultivate pure and wholesome karma.

May all sentient beings be freed from fear and vanquish the armies of Mara beneath the bodhi tree. May all sentient beings leave great fear behind, possess pure and fearless minds regarding the unsurpassed Dharma, and be able to utter the unsurpassed great lion’s roar. May all sentient beings attain unobstructed wisdom and practice right action throughout all worlds.

May all sentient beings reach the place of fearlessness and constantly remember to rescue and protect suffering sentient beings. When relinquishing his own body to rescue condemned prisoners about to be executed, the great bodhisattva dedicates his roots of goodness in this way, wishing sentient beings to leave the suffering of birth and death and attain the Tathagata’s unsurpassed and wondrous bliss.