Jīngāngdǐng shèngchū yúqié jīng zhōng lüèchū dàlè jīngāng sàduǒ niànsòng yí 金剛頂勝初瑜伽經中略出大樂金剛薩埵念誦儀
Abridged Recitation Ritual for the Great-Bliss Vajrasattva, Drawn from the Vajraśekhara Śrī-Paramādya-Yoga-Sūtra by 不空 (Bùkōng, Amoghavajra, 譯)
About the work
A one-fascicle abridged ritual manual for the Great-Bliss Vajrasattva practice, drawn from the Vajraśekhara Śrī-paramādya-yoga-sūtra (金剛頂勝初瑜伽經 = the Lǐqùjīng parent sūtra). Translated by Amoghavajra (不空). The text is essentially an abridged (略出) form of the operative ritual material for the Mahāsukha-Vajrasattva cycle, complementing the longer KR6j0333 (T1119) and supplemented by the mantra-companion KR6j0335 (T1120B).
Prefaces
The text opens with the standard Tang Esoteric vandanā verses:
稽首禮大密… — “I bow to the great-secret…”
— invoking the central Vajrasattva figure of the Vajraśekhara maṇḍala.
Abstract
The text expounds the abridged operative procedure for the Mahāsukha-Vajrasattva practice. The key ritual-procedural elements are: (1) the bodhi-citta generation (發菩提心); (2) the abhyantara-pūjā internal-offering visualisation; (3) the deity-visualisation of Mahāsukha-Vajrasattva (with consort, in Vajraśekhara-iconographic form); (4) the mūla-mantra recitation; (5) the mudrā-repertoire (the seventeen-mudrā sequence of the Lǐqù-cycle, abridged here to the principal vajra-bandha and vajra-añjali forms); (6) the abhiṣeka sequence; (7) the homa offerings; and (8) the closing dedication. As an abridged ritual manual, the text was particularly useful for routine daily Tang Esoteric practice, complementing the more elaborate procedural texts of the cycle.
Translations and research
- Astley-Kristensen, Ian. The Rishukyō. Tring: Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1991.
- Orzech, Charles D. Politics and Transcendent Wisdom. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.
Links
- CBETA T20n1120A
- 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.