大方廣佛華嚴經

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

May all 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 beings single-mindedly turn toward the Buddhas and always encounter immeasurable pure fields of merit. May all beings be free from stinginess toward the Tathagatas and fully perfect the mind of great relinquishment.

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

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

May all beings harbor no malice or resentment in the presence of the Buddhas, diligently cultivate roots of goodness, and delight in seeking the wisdom of the Buddhas. May all beings naturally be able to travel to every Buddha-land and, in a single instant, journey throughout the dharma realm without weariness. May all beings attain the bodhisattvas’ sovereign supernormal powers, manifest bodies throughout the dharma realm, draw near to all Buddhas, and make offerings to them.

May all beings attain incomparable bodies that travel throughout the ten directions without weariness or dissatisfaction. May all beings attain vast bodies that fly swiftly, go wherever they wish, and never become indolent or delayed. May all beings attain the ultimate sovereign might of the Buddhas and, in a single instant, manifest the Buddhas’ supernormal transformations throughout the realm of space.

May all beings cultivate practices of peace and happiness in accord with every bodhisattva path. May all beings swiftly and ultimately practice the wisdom and supernormal powers of the Ten Powers. May all beings enter the dharma realm everywhere and equally.

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

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

May all beings always remember the teachings of spiritual benefactors, diligently preserve them, and never forget them. May all beings obtain the same benefits as spiritual benefactors, universally gather everyone, and share the same roots of goodness. May all beings draw near to spiritual benefactors, honor and make offerings to them, and relinquish all their possessions in order to follow their wishes.

May all beings acquire wholesome aspirations and never part from good friends. May all beings constantly encounter spiritual benefactors, respectfully serve them, and never disobey their teachings. May all beings cherish spiritual benefactors, never leave them or become estranged from them, and never transgress against them.

May all beings be able to offer their bodies to spiritual benefactors, submit to their direction, and never oppose them. May all beings be gathered in by spiritual benefactors through sovereign great loving-kindness and abandon evil. May all beings follow spiritual benefactors and hear the true Dharma taught by the Buddhas.

May all beings share with spiritual benefactors the same roots of goodness and the same pure karmic fruit, share the practices and vows of the bodhisattvas, and ultimately attain the Ten Powers. May all beings be able to receive and retain the Dharma of spiritual benefactors and attain all samadhis, wisdom, and supernormal powers. May all beings be able to receive and retain all true Dharma, cultivate its practices, and reach the other shore.

May all beings ride the Great Vehicle without obstruction and ultimately accomplish the path of omniscience. May all beings board the vehicle of omniscience and reach a secure place from which there is no regression. May all beings know practices as they truly are, fully comprehend whatever Buddhadharma they hear, and never forget or lose any of it.

May all beings be gathered in by the Buddhas and attain unobstructed wisdom. May all beings attain sovereign supernormal powers and, whenever they wish to go somewhere, arrive there as soon as they think of it. May all beings travel freely, teach and transform beings everywhere, and cause them all to abide in the Great Vehicle.

May all beings never practice in vain but be conveyed by the vehicle of wisdom to the ultimate stage. May all beings attain the unobstructed vehicle and use unobstructed wisdom to reach every place. When giving vehicles to spiritual benefactors, the great bodhisattva thus dedicates his roots of goodness because he wishes all 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 the resolve to learn every practice of generosity; a mind of wisdom that skillfully understands; a mind of pure merit; a mind that accords with the practice of relinquishment; a mind that recognizes the rarity of the precious Sangha; a mind of deep faith in the precious Sangha; and a mind that gathers and upholds the true Dharma. Abiding in an excellent and unprecedented aspiration, he conducts a great assembly of giving, produces immeasurable and vast merit, and deeply trusts the Buddhadharma, which cannot be obstructed or destroyed. He dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all beings universally enter the Buddhadharma, remember it, and never forget it. May all beings leave behind the ways of foolish ordinary people and enter the company of sages and saints. May all beings quickly enter the community of the noble ones and be able to teach the Buddhadharma in proper sequence.

May all beings be honored by the entire world, and may their words always be trusted and followed. May all beings skillfully enter the equality of all dharmas and clearly know that the intrinsic nature of the dharma realm is nondual. May all beings be born from the realm of the Tathagatas’ wisdom, with all gentle and compliant persons as their retinue.

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

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

May all beings ride the body of space, attain unobstructed wisdom, and penetrate every world. May all beings universally enter the assemblies of the Buddhas throughout the entire realm of space and perfect the foremost paramita. May all beings attain supreme wisdom and light bodies capable of traveling throughout all Buddha-lands.

May all beings attain infinitely skillful supernormal mobility and, in a single instant, manifest bodies everywhere. May all beings attain bodies without any support and, through supernormal power, appear everywhere like reflections. May all beings attain inconceivable sovereign supernormal powers and appear before those who should be liberated in order to teach, transform, and discipline them.

May all 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 thus dedicates his roots of goodness because he wishes beings all to ride the unsurpassed vehicle of pure wisdom and turn the wheel of unobstructed wisdom throughout every world.

When the great bodhisattva gives precious vehicles to shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, he 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 over 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 beings be trusted by the world as the foremost fields of merit and fully perfect the unsurpassed dana paramita. May all beings abandon useless speech, delight in solitude, and have minds free from divided thoughts. May all beings become foremost pure fields of merit, gather in beings, and cause them to cultivate meritorious deeds.

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

May all beings constantly draw near to unsurpassed fields of merit, cultivate, and fully acquire immeasurable merit. May all beings manifest immeasurable sovereign supernormal powers and use pure fields of merit to gather in all sentient beings. May all beings fully possess inexhaustible merit as fields of merit and be able to bestow upon beings the supreme fruit of the Buddha Vehicle.

May all beings be true fields of merit, attain omniscience, and become inexhaustible accumulations of merit. May all beings attain the Dharma that extinguishes offenses and fully receive and retain the meanings of phrases in the Buddhadharma that they have never heard before. May all beings constantly and diligently hear and receive all Buddhadharma and awaken to it all.

May all beings constantly and diligently hear and accept all Buddhadharma and expound it in accord with what they have heard. May all beings faithfully understand and practice according to the Buddhadharma and abandon all the wrong views of the ninety-six non-Buddhist schools. May all beings constantly encounter sages and saints and increase their most excellent roots of goodness.

May all beings always have minds of faith and delight in the wise, and dwell and rejoice together with saints and sages. May all beings, upon hearing the names of the Buddhas, see the Buddhas with their own eyes and never let the opportunity pass in vain. May all beings skillfully discern and understand the Buddhadharma and be able to preserve and retain it all.

May all beings always delight in hearing all Buddhadharma, receiving, retaining, reading, reciting, and clearly elucidating it. May all beings faithfully understand the true merit of the Buddhadharma and relinquish all their possessions in order to honor it and make offerings to it. When giving precious vehicles to shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, the great bodhisattva thus dedicates his roots of goodness because he wishes beings all to accomplish the foremost pure wisdom and supernormal powers and, through diligent practice, attain the powers and fearlessnesses of wisdom.

The great bodhisattva gives precious vehicles even to the poor, destitute, orphaned, and solitary. Whatever they request, he gives them all. His heart is always joyful and never weary, and he tells them, “I should have personally brought these things and distributed them to you; I would not dare make you endure the trouble of coming to seek me.” He dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all beings ride the vast, unobstructed, irreversible vehicle of the Dharma wheel and proceed directly to the inconceivable Bodhi tree. May all beings ride the great vehicle of pure Dharma-wisdom and forever cultivate the irreversible bodhisattva path. May all beings ride the vehicle of the nonexistence of all dharmas, forever leave behind discriminating attachment, and constantly cultivate the path of omniscience.

May all beings ride the straightforward vehicle, free from flattery and deception, and travel freely and unobstructedly to all Buddha-lands. May all beings accord with and abide in the vehicle of omniscience and rejoice together in the Buddhadharma. May all beings ride the flourishing, pure bodhisattva vehicle, fully possess the bodhisattvas’ ten paths of emancipation, and delight in samadhi.

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

May all beings ride the Dharma vehicle that carries blessings and reveals the true, secure path throughout the ten directions. May all beings ride the vehicle of great generosity and abandon stinginess. May all beings ride the vehicle of pure morality and uphold boundlessly pure ethical practices.

May all beings ride the vehicle of patience and abandon anger. May all beings ride the vehicle of great diligence, steadfastly cultivate excellent practices, and reach the path of bodhi. May all beings ride the vehicle of meditative concentration, swiftly reach the bodhimanda, and realize the wisdom of bodhi.

May all beings ride the vehicle of wisdom and skillful means and skillfully manifest transformation bodies throughout the Buddha-lands of the dharma realm. May all beings ride the vehicle of the Dharma King, accomplish fearlessness, and always dispense the Dharma of omniscience everywhere. May all beings ride the vehicle of unattached wisdom and be able to enter everywhere throughout the ten directions without moving from the true Dharma-nature.

May all beings ride the vehicle of the Buddhadharma, manifest birth throughout the lands of the ten directions, and never lose the path of the Great Vehicle. May all 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 thus dedicates his roots of goodness because he wishes beings to possess immeasurable wisdom, rejoice exultantly, 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 and good friends and even to the poor and destitute, without the slightest regret. He dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all beings ride the well-tamed vehicle and increase the bodhisattvas’ merit. May all beings attain the vehicle of skillful means, capable of producing all Buddhadharmas at will. May all beings attain the vehicle of faith and understanding that universally illuminates the Tathagatas’ unobstructed powers of wisdom.

May all beings attain the vehicle of initiation and be able universally to initiate all great vows. May all beings fully possess the vehicle of the equality of the paramitas and completely perfect all equal roots of goodness. May all beings accomplish the precious vehicle that produces unsurpassed precious wisdom.

May all beings attain the vehicle adorned with bodhisattva practices and cause the flowers of bodhisattva samadhi to bloom. May all beings attain the swift and boundless vehicle, purify the bodhisattva mind throughout innumerable kalpas, and diligently contemplate and thoroughly understand all dharmas. May all beings accomplish the supremely well-tamed Great Vehicle and, through skillful means, fully perfect the bodhisattva stages.

May all beings accomplish the steadfast, lofty, and vast Great Vehicle, universally carry all beings, and enable them to reach the stage of omniscience. When giving elephants and horses, the great bodhisattva thus dedicates his roots of goodness because he wishes all beings to ride the vehicle of unobstructed wisdom and perfect the Buddha Vehicle.

When giving various seats—such as immeasurably adorned precious lion thrones—to the Buddha, bodhisattvas, spiritual benefactors, the noble Sangha, Dharma masters, parents, venerable persons, shravakas, pratyekabuddhas, those inclined toward the bodhisattva vehicle, shrines and stupas of the Tathagatas, and even the poor and destitute, bestowing whatever they need, the bodhisattva dedicates this merit as follows:

May all beings sit upon the seat of bodhi and awaken to the true Dharma of the Buddhas. May all beings sit upon the seat of sovereignty, attain mastery of the Dharma, and vanquish the armies of Mara. May all beings attain the Buddhas’ sovereign lion throne and be looked up to by all beings.

May all beings attain ineffably ineffable thrones of beautiful jeweled adornments and freely teach and transform beings. May all beings attain the supreme seat in all worlds, adorned by vast roots of goodness. May all beings attain a seat extending throughout ineffably ineffable worlds, whose praises cannot be exhausted in innumerable kalpas.

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

May all beings attain thrones of every treasure, every fragrance, every flower, every garment, every garland, every mani jewel, every vaidurya, and so forth; inconceivable precious thrones; thrones of immeasurable worlds; thrones of pure adornments; and vajra thrones upon which they manifest sovereign majesty and attain unsurpassed perfect enlightenment. When giving precious thrones, the great bodhisattva thus dedicates his roots of goodness because he wishes beings to attain the world-transcending seat of great bodhi and naturally awaken to all Buddhadharmas.

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

May all beings diligently cultivate roots of goodness and always be protected by the Buddhas. May all beings use merit and wisdom as a canopy and forever leave behind every affliction. May all beings shelter themselves with wholesome dharmas and extinguish the defilements and burning torments of the world.

May all beings attain the treasury of wisdom, so that the great assembly delights in seeing them and is never satiated. May all beings shelter themselves with peaceful, wholesome dharmas and ultimately never impair the Buddhadharma. May all beings skillfully shelter their own bodies and ultimately attain the pure Dharma-body.

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

May all beings attain the supreme canopy and attain unsurpassed wisdom through natural awakening. When giving precious canopies, the great bodhisattva thus dedicates his roots of goodness so that all beings may attain sovereign canopies capable of preserving every wholesome dharma; with a single canopy cover the whole realm of space and the dharma realm and all lands; manifest sovereign, irreversible supernormal powers; adorn the worlds of the ten directions as offerings to the Buddhas; offer fine banners, streamers, and beautiful precious canopies to all Buddhas; attain universally adorned precious canopies that completely cover every Buddha-land; attain vast precious canopies that cover all beings and cause them to give rise to faith and understanding in the Buddhas;

enable all beings to offer ineffable precious canopies to a single Buddha and likewise to ineffable Buddhas; enable all beings to attain vast precious canopies of bodhi that cover all Buddhas; and enable all beings to attain canopies adorned with mani jewels, canopies adorned with every fragrance, canopies of every adornment, and canopies of pure adornments, covered with jeweled nets and hung with precious bells that, stirred by the wind, produce wondrous sounds, covering the bodies of the Buddhas in all worlds; and enable all beings to attain precious canopies adorned with unobstructed wisdom that cover all Buddhas.

Furthermore, he wishes all beings to attain the foremost wisdom, be adorned with the Buddhas’ merit, have pure aspirations toward the merit of the Buddhas, attain immeasurable and boundless sovereign minds as precious treasures, and fully perfect sovereign wisdom. He also wishes beings to cover everything with roots of goodness, accomplish the supreme precious canopy of wisdom, accomplish the precious canopy of the Ten Powers, master all dharmas, and become Dharma Kings.

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

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

Disciples of the Buddha! With a pure mind of faith and understanding, the great bodhisattva offers immeasurable supremely beautiful and wondrous banners and streamers, wholly adorned with gold, jade, pearls, and jewels, to the Buddhas of the present and to the shrines and stupas of Buddhas who have entered nirvana. He also offers them to the precious Dharma and the precious Sangha, or to bodhisattvas and spiritual benefactors, shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, or gives them to great assemblies and to all who come seeking them.

The great bodhisattva dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all beings be able to establish firm and indestructible banners of roots of goodness, merit, and virtue; establish banners of sovereignty over all dharmas, honor and cherish them, and diligently preserve them; and constantly transcribe the true Dharma upon precious silk and protect and uphold the Dharma treasury of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas.

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

May all beings establish steadfast banners that vanquish every karmic work 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 beings attain banners of wisdom whose great light universally illuminates the dharma realm.

May all beings possess immeasurable adorned precious banners that fill all worlds throughout the ten directions as offerings to the Buddhas.

May all beings attain the banner of the Tathagatas that overcomes all the wrong views of the ninety-six non-Buddhist schools.

When giving banners and streamers, the great bodhisattva thus dedicates his roots of goodness so that all beings may attain the lofty, vast, and profound banner of bodhisattva practice and the pure banner of the bodhisattvas’ path of practice and supernormal powers.

Disciples of the Buddha! The great bodhisattva opens treasuries of jewels and distributes hundreds of thousands of kotis of nayutas of precious treasures to innumerable beings, giving them whatever they desire without any stinginess.

The great bodhisattva dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all beings always behold the precious Buddha, abandon delusion, and cultivate right mindfulness.

May all beings fully possess the radiant precious Dharma and protect and uphold the Dharma treasury of the Buddhas.

May all beings be able to gather in the entire precious Sangha, provide for it, and make offerings without ever becoming weary.

May all beings attain the unsurpassed precious mind of omniscience and the pure, irreversible mind of bodhi.

May all beings attain precious wisdom, universally enter all dharmas, and have minds free from doubt.

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

May all beings attain immeasurable, wondrous, precious merit and, through cultivation, realize perfect enlightenment and the Ten Powers of wisdom.

May all beings attain the precious sixteen wisdoms of wondrous samadhi and ultimately accomplish vast wisdom.

May all beings accomplish the precious foremost field of merit and awaken to and enter the Tathagatas’ unsurpassed wisdom.

May all beings become unsurpassed, foremost kings of treasures and expound all dharmas with inexhaustible eloquence.

When giving pearls and jewels, the great bodhisattva thus dedicates his roots of goodness so that all beings may accomplish the Tathagatas’ foremost precious wisdom and pure precious eye.

Disciples of the Buddha! The great bodhisattva regards all 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 joy of the Buddhas’ wisdom, abide in the Buddhadharma, and benefit beings, he diligently gives immeasurable kinds of beautiful precious ornaments and dedicates the merit as follows:

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

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

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

May all beings attain marks of adornment free from confusion and adorn their bodies with every excellent mark.

May all beings attain marks of purely wholesome and undefiled speech, adorned with inexhaustible eloquence.

May all beings attain the marks of a voice adorned with merit, whose pure sound brings joy to those who hear it.

May all beings attain the Buddhas’ pleasing marks of adorned speech, causing beings who hear the Dharma to rejoice and cultivate pure practices.

May all beings attain the marks of an adorned mind, enter profound meditative concentration, and universally behold the Buddhas.

May all beings attain the adornment of dharani and illuminate all Buddhadharmas. May all beings attain the marks of wisdom’s adornment and adorn their own minds with the wisdom of the Buddhas.

When giving various ornaments, the great bodhisattva thus dedicates his roots of goodness so that all beings may fully possess immeasurable Buddhadharmas, become perfectly adorned with merit and wisdom, and forever leave behind all arrogance and heedlessness.

Disciples of the Buddha! The great bodhisattva gives light-radiating mani jewels and the precious jewel from his topknot to beings without stinginess. He constantly and diligently trains to become a great donor, cultivates generosity and wisdom, strengthens his faculty of relinquishment, perfects skillful wisdom, and broadens the measure of his mind.

The great bodhisattva dedicates these roots of goodness as follows:

May all beings receive the Buddhas’ Dharma of anointment and attain the stage of omniscience.

May all beings fully perfect the ushnisha and attain the foremost wisdom that reaches the other shore.

May all beings use wondrous precious wisdom to gather in all kinds of beings and ultimately bring them to the summit of merit.

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

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

May all beings bind the radiant jewel of wisdom upon the crowns of their heads, beyond the sight of anyone in any world.

May all beings be worthy of the homage of the world and accomplish the crown of wisdom that illuminates the Buddhadharma.

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

May all beings reach the summit of the great earth, attain omniscience, perfect the Ten Powers, and destroy the hosts of Mara at the summit of the desire realm.

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

When giving precious crowns, the great bodhisattva thus dedicates his roots of goodness so that beings may attain the foremost stage of pure wisdom, taking wisdom as a wondrous light-radiating mani jewel.

Disciples of the Buddha! The great bodhisattva sees beings seized by evildoers, shackled and chained in dark prisons, suffering unbearably with no one to rescue them. He then gives up his wealth, wife, and children, even his own body, and enters the prison to rescue those beings, as did the Bodhisattva Great Compassion and the Bodhisattva King Wondrous Eyes. Having rescued them, he supplies everything they need and enables them to dwell in peace and security. Only then does he bestow upon them the unsurpassed precious Dharma, causing them to cultivate, abandon heedlessness, plant roots of goodness, and never regress from the Buddhadharma.

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

May all beings be ultimately liberated from the bonds of craving and attachment. May all beings cut off the stream of birth and death and ascend to the shore of wisdom. May all beings eliminate delusion, develop wisdom, and forever end the afflictions.

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

May all beings distance themselves from every worldly desire and remain undefiled and unattached within the three realms. May all beings attain supreme aspirations and always receive teachings of the Dharma from the Buddhas. May all beings attain liberated minds that are undefiled, unattached, and unbound, as vast as the dharma realm and as ultimate as space.

May all beings attain the bodhisattvas’ supernormal powers, travel to every world, discipline beings, cause them to leave worldly ways, and establish them in the Great Vehicle. When rescuing beings from the suffering of imprisonment, the great bodhisattva thus dedicates his roots of goodness so that beings may universally enter the stage of the Tathagatas’ 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 their flesh is to be cut away, their bodies pierced by spears or burned by fire, or their heads displayed publicly—forced to leave their families and relatives and subjected to every kind of agony. The bodhisattva then offers his own body to endure the suffering in their place, as did the Bodhisattva Ajita, the Bodhisattva King of Supremely Excellent Practice, and others.

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

May all beings attain the ultimate span of life and forever be free from every calamity, oppression, and torment. May all beings abide in reliance upon the Buddhas and receive predictions of their future Buddhahood. May all beings universally rescue every sentient being, free them from fear, and enable them forever to escape the lower realms.

May all beings attain the fullness of life and enter the deathless realm of wisdom. May all beings forever be free from enemies, adversaries, perils, and suffering, and always be gathered in by the Buddhas and good friends. May all beings abandon every sword, weapon, and evil deed and cultivate pure and wholesome karma.

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

May all beings reach the place of fearlessness and always remember to rescue and protect suffering beings. When relinquishing his own body to rescue prisoners condemned to execution, the great bodhisattva thus dedicates his roots of goodness because he wishes beings to leave behind the suffering of birth and death and attain the Tathagata’s unsurpassed, wondrous bliss.