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For all classes of sentient beings

Through past, future, and present—none exhausted

And yet the lands of the Buddhas are truly vast

Boundless are those realms, beyond all telling

And further, each single mote of dust is a land

The Buddha-lands as numerous as dust-motes

In each of those places there abides a Buddha

As many as the sands and dust, I bow to all

Those dust-motes manifold beyond the Buddha-realms

Therein, Buddha upon Buddha, I extol

With single-hearted devotion I make offerings

Passing through kalpas as countless as fine dust

I pay homage to all the Buddhas and their assemblies

To the Three Jewels I forever take refuge

I shall bring forth the most precious flowers

And all things fine to present as offerings

If I have given rise to any transgressions

I now must repent of them entirely

If any of my faults have not yet arisen

From all of them I shall ever keep apart

And as for all the precious stores of merit

In those I shall forever take rejoicing

This merit I dedicate to sentient beings

Together with the supreme fruit of Buddha's Bodhi

As the Buddhas have proclaimed within the True Dharma

May my power of vow be firm and also true

May I forever make offerings to the World-Honored Ones

May I, in the very end, attain Buddhahood

May I, in life after life, possess deep wisdom

Ever like the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī

With heart of loving-kindness, knowing suffering, saving the world

May I be like the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara

Samantabhadra, with loving tenderness, beholds all beings

May I be no different from Samantabhadra

With a mind of kindly goodness regarding every kind of being

May I forever be like the Venerable Maitreya

In giving, may my vow be like the treasury of empty space

In keeping precepts, may my vow be wisdom like spiritual power

Forbearance and diligence—these two gateways

May I forever be able to apply myself with zeal

May the power of concentration gather in all distractions

May I become like Vajrapāṇi

Skillfully proclaiming the Dharma-doors of the Ten Stages

In speaking wisdom, may my vow be like Vajragarbha

Before the Buddha, the World-Honored One, well to inquire

May I be like the one who removes obscurations

In profound mind and wisdom, both firm and steadfast

May I forever be like Firm Wisdom

With unobstructed spiritual powers and skillful means

May I become like Vimalakīrti

Skillfully aiding sentient beings in their roots of goodness

Ever diligent, may my vow be like one always valiant

Skillfully proclaiming the Dharma of the Pāramitās

May I become like Akṣayamati

Endowed with measureless and excellent sounds

May I be no different from the one of Wondrous Voice

Drawing near to good spiritual friends, the heart never wearied

I vow, in life after life, to be like Sudhana

Empty space cannot compare—well able to speak the Dharma

May I become like Ākāśagarbha

The earth that nurtures and sustains the whole of life

In universal benefit, may my vow be like the Venerable Kṣitigarbha

Forthwith removing the suffering of greed, benefiting sentient beings

May I be no different from the Treasury-Spirit Ratnagarbha

Bringing forth inexhaustible words of the wondrous Dharma-treasure

May I become like Dharmodgata

With firm wisdom and also ever diligent

May I be no different from the Venerable Sadāprarudita

These are the foremost among the Sons of the Buddha

Their supreme accumulation of merit is boundless

Their renown is vast and great, and also inexhaustible

May I proclaim a name even such as theirs

I now praise and extol the merits of the Buddhas

Supreme, victorious, wholesome, and exceedingly vast

I universally pray that all the sentient beings of the world

May abide within that most victorious merit.

Verse of the Vast and Great Aspiration — The End