Verses reaffirming the vows

I have made a world-surpassing vow and will certainly reach the unsurpassed way.

If this vow is not fulfilled, I pledge not to accomplish perfect awakening.

Unless, throughout immeasurable kalpas, I become a great giver

and rescue all who are poor and suffering, I pledge not to accomplish perfect awakening.

When I attain Buddhahood, may my name resound beyond the ten directions;

if anywhere does not hear it, I pledge not to accomplish perfect awakening.

Free from craving, deeply and rightly mindful, cultivating pure conduct with pure wisdom,

I will aspire to the unsurpassed way and become a teacher of gods and people.

Through wondrous power I will emit great light, illuminating boundless lands,

removing the darkness of greed, anger, and ignorance, and rescuing widely from calamities and hardships.

I will open people’s eyes of wisdom and destroy this unseeing darkness,

closing the painful paths and opening the gateways to good realms.

Fulfilling merit, I will illuminate every direction with its radiance.

Even sun and moon will withdraw their combined brilliance, and heavenly light will disappear from view.

I will open the treasury of the Dharma for people and widely distribute the treasure of merit.

Always amid the multitude, I will teach with a lion’s roar.

Making offerings to every Buddha and cultivating many roots of virtue,

I will completely fulfill aspiration and wisdom, becoming a hero within the three realms.

As the Buddha’s unobstructed wisdom penetrates and illuminates everywhere,

may the power of my merit and wisdom equal this supremely honored one.

If this vow is fulfilled, may the immense universe respond and tremble,

and may the heavenly deities rain down rare and beautiful flowers.