Ritual Manual for Initiation into the Great Mandala of the Usnisa-Cakravartin (Ding Lunwang Da Mantuluo Guan Ding Yi Gui) 頂輪王大曼荼羅灌頂儀軌

Compiled by Bian Hong

Colophon

第 19 冊 No. 959 頂輪王大曼荼羅灌頂儀軌 唐 辯弘集 共 1 卷
Volume 19, No. 959; Ding Lunwang Da Mantuluo Guan Ding Yi Gui; Ritual Manual for Initiation into the Great Mandala of the Usnisa-Cakravartin Compiled by Bianhong in the Tang in 1 scroll

Summary

Describes a coronation ritual for a Cakravartin ruler.

Notes

This text does not appear in the Korean canon. A Taishō footnote for this text reads: <原>東寺三密藏古寫本 Source: Tō-ji Sanmitsu Canon old manuscript.

English translations

Sinclair, I 2016, “Coronation and Liberation According to a Javanese Monk in China: Bianhong’s Manual on the Abhiṣeka of a Cakravartin,” In: Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia, Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, pp. 29-66.

Primary Source

Bian Hong, 《頂輪王大曼荼羅灌頂儀軌》 'Ding Lunwang Da Mantuluo Guan Ding 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. 959, Accessed 2016-10-02, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T19n0959.

References

  1. Giebel 2011, pp. 27-36.

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