This is a dedication prayer I adapted, abridged, and simplified from Samantabhadra’s Vows in the Gandavyuha Sutra, which serves as the thirty-ninth and last book of the Avatamsaka canon.

Samantabhadra’s Vows to be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss and Peace (adapted and abridged from Thomas Cleary’s translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra)

May this highest of dedication prayers / Benefit countless sentient beings. / May reciting these ultimate vows of Universal Good / Free all beings from suffering.

From paths of evil I have departed for eternity, / Soon to meet Amitābha and perfect the dedications of Universal Good.

May there be no limits to my practice, / May there be no limits to my virtue. / Through inexhaustible perseverance, / May I accomplish all that is holy.

As long as the cosmos exists, / As long as beings continue to exist, / As long as afflictions and suffering exist, / So long will my vow remain.

Acting in accord with the time, may I remove all obstructions, / May I see Amitābha face-to-face and go to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and Peace.

In that universe of blissful joy, with all my supreme vows fulfilled, I will bring happiness and liberation to all beings.

Let me abide and dwell in the blessed assembly of the Buddha, born in a beautiful and holy lotus / And receive a prophecy of Buddhahood (Vyakarana) in the presence of / Amitābha.

May I thereafter reveal myself, by the power of Buddha, with incalculable transformation bodies in order to benefit all beings in all worlds.

By whatever virtue I accumulate, having invoked the vow to practice good, / May all the virtuous aspirations of living beings be accomplished instantly.

By the endless surpassing blessing realized from dedication / To the practice of good, / May all sentient beings submerged in the torrent of suffering / Return to the holy realm of Amitābha.