will cause them to understand. Those who have not settled themselves, I will cause them to be settled. Those who have not attained nirvana, I will cause them to attain nirvana. The second set of vows is original to Zhiyi's corpus and states: Sentient beings, limitless in number, I vow to ferry over. Passions (klesa) which are numberless, I vow to extinguish. The Dharma-gates without end (in number), I vow to know. The supreme Buddha Way, I vow to actualize. Zhiyi explains that these vows correspond to the Four Noble Truths and that these vows arise with the four truths as their basis. The following table presents the fourfold bodhisattva vow in various languages: Vows from the Avataṃsaka Sūtra The Avataṃsaka Sūtra, a large composite text, contains various passages discussing the practices and vows that bodhisattvas undertake. One example can be found in book 18 of the text, which contains the following ten vows:Enlightening beings have ten pure vows: (1) they vow to develop living beings to maturity, without wearying; (2) they vow to fully practice all virtues and purify all worlds; (3) they vow to serve the Enlightened, always engendering honor and respect; (4) they vow to keep and protect the true teaching, not begrudging their lives; (5) they vow to observe with wisdom and enter the lands of the Buddhas; (6) they vow to be of the same essence as all enlightening beings; (7) they vow to enter the door of realization of thusness and comprehend all things; (8) they vow that those who see them will develop faith and all be benefited; (9) they vow to stay in the world forever by spiritual power; (10) they vow to fulfill the practice of Universal Good, and master the knowledge of all particulars and all ways of liberation. These are the ten pure vows of enlightening beings. Ten vows of Samantabhadra In the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, Samantabhadra makes ten vows which are an important source for East Asian Buddhism. Samantabhadra's vows also appear in the Samantabhadra-caryā-praṇidhānam, which is often appended to the end of the Avataṃsaka but originally circulated as an independent text. Reciting these ten vows is also promoted by Shantideva in his Śikṣāsamuccaya. The ten vows of Samantabhadra are: The vow to pay homage to all the buddhas To praise the virtues of the buddhas To serve and make offerings to the buddhas To confess past misdeeds and