Rites for Contemplation of and Offerings to Amitāyus Tathāgata (Wuliang Shou Rulai Guan Xing Gongyang Yi Gui) 無量壽如來觀行供養儀軌

Translated by Amoghavajra

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第 19 冊　No. 930 無量壽如來觀行供養儀軌 唐 不空譯 共 1 卷
Volume 19, No. 930; Wuliang Shou Rulai Guan Xing Gongyang Yi Gui; Rites for Contemplation of and Offerings to Amitāyus Tathāgata; Translated by Amoghavajra in the Tang in 1 scroll

Summary

The text instructs the practitioner to receive consecration from the teacher, repent transgressions, perform dedication of merit, visualize Amitāyus, and invite him to be present.

Notes

Date 746-774 from Lancaster (Lancaster 2004, 'K 1312')

English translation

Orzech, D. O. 2017, “Tantric Subjects: Liturgy and Vision in Chinese Esoteric Ritual Manuals,” In Yael Bentor and Meir Shahar (eds), Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, Leiden: Brill, p. 27. Partial.

Primary Source

Amoghavajra, 《無量壽如來觀行供養儀軌》 'Wuliang Shou Rulai Guan Xing Gongyang Yi Gui,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 19, No. 930, Accessed 2016-10-01, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T19n0930.

References

1. Giebel 2011, pp. 27-36.
2. Lancaster 2004, 'K 1312'.

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