Vairocana Sutra Lotus Platform Matrix Assembly Compassion Mandala Attainment Liturgy (Da Piluzhena Cheng Fo Shenbian Jia Chi Jing Lianhua Tai Cang Bei Sheng Mantuluo Guangda Chengjiu Yi Gui Gongyang Fangbian Hui) 大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經蓮華胎藏悲生曼荼羅廣大成就儀軌供養方便會

Translated by Fa Quan

Colophon

第 18 冊　No. 852a 大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經蓮華胎藏悲生曼荼羅廣大成就儀軌供養方便會 唐 法全撰 共 2 卷
Volume 18, No. 852a, Da Piluzhena Cheng Fo Shenbian Jia Chi Jing Lianhua Tai Cang Bei Sheng Mantuluo Guangda Chengjiu Yi Gui Gongyang Fangbian Hui, Vairocana Sutra Lotus Platform Matrix Assembly Compassion Mandala Attainment Liturgy, Composed by Fa Quan in the Tang in 2 scrolls

Other Titles

玄法寺儀軌 Xuan Fa Temple Ritual Manual; 大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經蓮華胎藏悲生曼荼羅廣大成就儀軌 Vairocana Sutra Lotus Platform Matrix Assembly Compassion Mandala Attainment Ritual Manual; 大毘盧遮那成就儀軌 Mahavairocana Ritual Manual

Summary

The first of the 胎藏四部儀軌 four rituals of the Garbhadhatu; a ritual associated with the Vairocana Sutra (T 848) and performed at 玄法寺 Xuan Fa Temple in Chang'an, where Fa Quan was abbot.

Notes

This text does not appear in the Korean canon. A Taishō footnote for the text reads: ＜原＞正徳元年刊豐山大學藏本, ＜甲＞永久三年寫高山寺藏本, ＜乙＞永久六年寫高山寺藏本, 原本冠註曰別本注撰號曰玄法寺法全阿闍梨撰 Source: Buzan College edition published in the first year of the Shōtoku era [1711], 1. Takayama Temple edition, transcribed in the third year of the Eikyū era [1113-1118], 2. Takayama Temple edition copied in the sixth year of the Eikyū era noted to be from an original compiled by teacher Fa Quan of Xuan Fa Temple.

English translation

None

Primary Source

Fa Quan, 《大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經蓮華胎藏悲生曼荼羅廣大成就儀軌供養方便會》 'Da Piluzhena Cheng Fo Shenbian Jia Chi Jing Lianhua Tai Cang Bei Sheng Mantuluo Guangda Chengjiu Yi Gui Gongyang Fangbian Hui,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 18, No. 852a, Accessed 2016-09-28, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T18n0852a.

References

  1. FGDB s.v. 玄法寺儀軌
  2. Giebel, Rolf W. 2005, Vairocanāsaṃbodhi Sūtra: Translated from the Chinese (Taishō Volume 18, Number 848), BDK English Tripiṭaka Series, BDK America, Inc., https://bdkamerica.org/product/the-vairocanabhisambodhi-sutra, p. xv
  3. Orzech, D. O. 2011, “After Amoghavajra: Esoteric Buddhism in the Late Tang,” In Orzech, D. O., H. H. Sørensen, and R. Payne (eds) Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia, Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 315-335.

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