Rúyì bǎozhū zhuǎnlún mìmì xiànshēn chéngfó jīnlún zhòuwáng jīng 如意寶珠轉輪祕密現身成佛金輪呪王經
Sūtra of the Golden-Wheel Mantra-King for Manifest-Body Buddhahood-Attainment, the Esoteric Wheel-Turning Wish-Fulfilling-Jewel by 不空 Bùkōng (Amoghavajra, 譯)
About the work
A one-fascicle Esoteric scripture by Amoghavajra (不空) integrating the Wish-Fulfilling-Jewel (rúyì bǎozhū 如意寶珠 — cintāmaṇi) and Wheel-Turning (zhuǎnlún — cakravartin) cosmic-imperial iconographies with the Golden-Wheel Mantra-King Esoteric tradition, oriented to the soteriological aim of manifest-body Buddhahood-attainment (xiànshēn chéngfó 現身成佛 — i.e., attaining Buddhahood in the present body, the Japanese-Shingon doctrine of sokushin-jōbutsu 即身成佛).
Abstract
The text is a foundational Esoteric source for the doctrine of attainment of Buddhahood in the present body — one of the central distinguishing claims of the Esoteric tradition over the longer-path Mahāyāna scriptures. The doctrine holds that through the integrated Three Mysteries (mind-speech-body) practice with appropriate bīja-mantra-mudrā-visualization, the practitioner can attain Buddhahood in the present body without traversing the standard three-asaṃkhyeya-kalpa Bodhisattva path.
The composition dates from Amoghavajra’s mature Cháng’ān period (746–774).
Translations and research
- Abé, Ryūichi. The Weaving of Mantra. New York: Columbia UP, 1999. — Discusses the sokushin-jōbutsu doctrine.
Links
- CBETA T19n0961
- Kanseki DB
- 不空 Bùkōng DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (CBETA / Taishō; date: 750)