Fómǔ kǒngquè zūnjīng kēshì 佛母孔雀尊經科式
Outline-Liturgy of the Buddha-Mother Mahāmāyūrī-vidyārājñī Sūtra [Anonymous, Míng dynasty]
About the work
A one-fascicle (1卷) structural-outline liturgy (kēshì 科式 / kēyí 科儀) for the practice and recitation of the Fómǔ Kǒngquè zūnjīng 佛母孔雀尊經 — the Mahāmāyūrī-vidyārājñī-sūtra (the Sūtra of the Great Peacock-Wisdom-Queen Buddha-Mother), in any of its multiple Chinese translations (the 不空 Bùkōng translation, T19 no. 982 etc.). Preserved as X74 no. 1479 in the Xùzàngjīng. The catalog meta entry is silent on author and gives only dynasty 明 (Míng).
Abstract
The work is a Chinese-Buddhist kēyí 科儀 — an outline-liturgy that organizes the recitation of the Mahāmāyūrī sūtra under a hierarchical sequence of invocations. The opening sequence:
- Niàn dàbēi zhòu bì sǎjìng 念大悲呪畢洒淨 (“Recite the Great Compassion dhāraṇī to completion; sprinkle and purify”).
- Shìjiā rúlái — rúlái shuōjīng jiàozhǔ 釋迦如來。如來說經教主 (Śākyamuni Tathāgata: the Tathāgata who expounds the sūtra and is the master of the teaching).
- Kǒngquè rúlái — rúlái jiànglín fǎhuì 孔雀如來。如來降臨法會 (Peacock-Tathāgata: the Tathāgata who descends to the Dharma-assembly).
- Ānántuó zūnzhě — zūnzhě tóngchuí jiāhù 阿難陀尊者。尊者同垂加護 (the venerable Ānanda; the venerable extends his protection together).
The Mahāmāyūrī sūtra is one of the most popular Buddhist apotropaic-protective texts in late-imperial Chinese popular Buddhism, prescribed for the protection of the body from illness and the household from calamities. The kēshì organizes the sūtra-recitation under the standard Buddhist liturgical framework, opening with Dàbēi zhòu purification and proceeding through the invocation of the principal deities and witnesses. The work belongs to the broad genre of late-Míng Buddhist popular liturgical manuals; precise authorship and date are not preserved. Composition window: late Míng (c. 1500–1644), broadly bracketed.
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