Púsà wǔfǎ chànhuǐ wén 菩薩五法懺悔文
The Bodhisattva’s Five-Fold Confession (translator unknown)
About the work
A one-fascicle anonymous Mahāyāna confessional liturgy organised under five categories (五法 wǔfǎ). Translator unknown.
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No translator-attribution survives.
Abstract
The text is a brief Mahāyāna confessional liturgy used in bodhisattva-precept observance. The “five categories” structure of confession became a standard schema in East Asian Mahāyāna repentance literature, paralleling the prātimokṣa recitation in the Vinaya tradition. Such confessional texts were used in uposatha gatherings and as preparation for major ordination ceremonies.