Cíbēi dìzàng púsà chànfǎ 慈悲地藏菩薩懺法
The Compassionate Repentance Liturgy of the Bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha anonymous compiler (Qīng dynasty)
About the work
The Cíbēi dìzàng púsà chànfǎ in 3 fascicles is a Qīng-period 地藏 Kṣitigarbha repentance liturgy (chànfǎ 懺法) of unknown compilation. The Xuzangjing print does not record the compiler’s name; the work is preserved without front-matter and is signed only with chapter headings (“Yán jìng tánchǎng” 嚴淨壇場, “Cíbēi dìzàng chànfǎ juàn shàng / xià” etc.). The catalog meta accordingly assigns the work to the Qīng dynasty without an author. The text complements the Zànlǐ dìzàng púsà chànyuàn yí of 智旭 and the Cíbēi dàochǎng chànfǎ 慈悲道場懺法 (the great Liáng Liánghuáng bǎochàn 梁皇寶懺 tradition); within that tradition it is one of the principal Kṣitigarbha repentance liturgies in the late-imperial Chinese Buddhist tradition.
Prefaces
No preface is preserved.
Abstract
The text is an extended liturgical compilation in three fascicles. Fascicle 1 opens with the Yánjìng tánchǎng 嚴淨壇場 “Purification of the Ritual Space” (employing the Willow-and-Pure-Water gāthā and the homage to Qīngliángdì bodhisattva 清涼地菩薩); the body of the liturgy proceeds through cycles of prostration to the buddhas, recitation of the Mahākaruṇā-dhāraṇī and the Heart Sūtra, repentance formulas, and praise verses. Fascicle 3 concludes with a comprehensive vow-cycle (fāyuàn 發願) committing the practitioner to bodhisattva-rebirth in successive lifetimes, with petitionary prayers for the welfare of the imperial state, the saṅgha, and the eight classes of dharma-protectors (Tiānlóng bābù 天龍八部). The liturgy is structurally and stylistically continuous with the broader Tiāntái-derived chànfǎ tradition formalised in the late Míng and continued through the Qīng.
The dating window 1644–1911 is given with deliberate looseness, corresponding to the Qīng dynasty as a whole; the specific date of compilation cannot be determined from the surviving text.
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