Shèng Guānzìzài púsà xīn zhēnyán yújiā guānxíng yíguǐ 聖觀自在菩薩心真言瑜伽觀行儀軌
Yoga-Contemplation Ritual Manual for the Heart-Mantra of Noble Avalokiteśvara by 不空 (Amoghavajra, 譯)
About the work
A one-fascicle Esoteric ritual manual by Amoghavajra (不空) supplying the yújiā guānxíng yíguǐ (yoga-contemplation ritual procedure) for the heart-mantra of Ārya-Avalokiteśvara (聖觀自在 = Skt. Ārya-Avalokiteśvara, the non-adorned form of Avalokiteśvara — distinguished from the Sahasra-bhuja-Avalokiteśvara and other proliferated forms). CANWWW alt-titles: Shèng Guānzìzài yíguǐ 聖觀自在儀軌, Yújiā guānxíng guǐyí 瑜伽觀行軌儀.
Abstract
The Ārya-Avalokiteśvara heart-mantra (hṛdaya-mantra) is one of the simplest and most-recited Avalokiteśvara mantras (typically in the form oṃ aroḷika svāhā) and the present text provides its full Esoteric ritual context: mudrā-sequence, maṇḍala-construction, guānxíng (visualisation) procedures, and the doctrinal frame within which the practice is to be undertaken. Together with KR6j0228, KR6j0230, and KR6j0231 it forms the core of Amoghavajra’s Avalokiteśvara liturgical corpus.
Translations and research
- Goble, Geoffrey C. Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra. New York: Columbia UP, 2019.
- Yü Chün-fang. Kuan-yin. New York: Columbia UP, 2001.
Links
- CBETA T20n1031
- Kanseki DB
- 不空 DILA
- Dazangthings date evidence (750) — T = CBETA [Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association]. Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經. Edited by Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭. Tokyo: Taishō shinshū daizōkyō kankōkai/Daizō shuppan, 1924-1932. CBReader v 5.0, 2014.