新華嚴經論 28.22

28.22

The third section of prose has sixty-eight and a half lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where the bodhisattva of this stage sits on a lotus throne as a great Dharma master and receives the great office of a Buddha of the tenth ground. The fourth section of prose has twenty-two and a half lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where all the Buddhas of the ten directions emit the light of wisdom, bestow anointment, and approve their attaining an office equal to a Buddha. The fifth section has thirty-six and a half lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where this bodhisattva's vast and subtle discriminating wisdom skillfully understands the truths of arising. The sixth section has seven and a half lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where this bodhisattva attains the ten great liberations. The seventh section has forty-five and a half lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where the bodhisattva of this ground can in a single thought-moment receive all the Dharmas of all the Buddhas in the ten directions, explaining that they are all capable of receiving them and raining Dharma rain in the ten directions with mastery. The eighth section has thirty-five lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where the bodhisattva of this stage, vast in accordance with thought, has sovereignty in penetrating transformations through the mutual entry of subtle and coarse, small and large, one and many. The ninth section has eighteen and a half lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where when this great assembly gives rise to doubt upon hearing of the tenth ground bodhisattva's spiritual powers, Bodhisattva Vajragarbha enters the samādhi of intrinsic nature and manifests bodhisattva spiritual powers to dispel the assembly's doubts. The tenth section has twenty-seven lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where the spiritual powers of wisdom of a bodhisattva on this ground cannot be matched by lower grounds, and cannot be compared to the Tathāgata's spiritual powers and wisdom. The eleventh section has thirty-five and a half lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where this bodhisattva's actions of body, speech, and mind do not differ from the Tathāgata's, does not abandon the bodhisattva's samādhis, and serves and makes offerings to all Buddhas. The twelfth section has forty-two and a half lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where the ten great mountain kings are cited to illustrate the wisdom practiced through the successive expedients of the ten grounds. The thirteenth section has fourteen lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where the great ocean possessing ten virtues is cited to illustrate the progressive advance through the ten grounds. The fourteenth section has twenty and a half lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where the mani jewel possessing ten natures that surpass all jewels is cited to illustrate the ten grounds surpassing all holy ones. The fifteenth section has twenty-two and a half lines of the sūtra, explaining the division where expounding this Dharma gate of the ten grounds moves the great earth in six ways and eighteen aspects, prompts offerings, and all the Vajragarbha bodhisattvas of the ten directions come to verify the Dharma. The sixteenth section has eighty-three lines of verse, explaining the division of restating the previous Dharma in verse.