The Tantric Ritual Methods of Offerings and Recitations for the Revelation of the Divine Powers of the Saintly Hayagrīva, the Awesome Ferocious King; Sheng He Ye Ge Li Fu Da Wei Nu Wang Li Cheng Da Shen Yan Gongyang Niansong Yi Gui Fa Pin 聖賀野紇哩縛大威怒王立成大神驗供養念誦儀軌法品

Translated by Amoghavajra

Colophon

第 20 冊　No. 1072A 聖賀野紇哩縛大威怒王立成大神驗供養念誦儀軌法品 唐 不空譯 共 2 卷
Volume 20, No. 1072A Sheng Heyegelifu Da Wei Nu Wang Li Cheng Da Shen Yan Gongyang Niansong Yi Gui Fa Pin; The Tantric Ritual Methods of Offerings and Recitations for the Revelation of the Divine Powers of the Saintly Hayagrīva, the Awesome Ferocious King; Translated by Amoghavajra in the Tang in 2 scrolls

Summary

The text gives words of praise for the wrathful but benevolent deity Hayagrīva, mantras, and ritual procedures.

Notes

This text does not appear in the Korean canon. A Taishō footnote for this text reads: ＜原＞享保年間刊豊山大學藏本, ＜甲＞久安六年寫高山寺藏本, ＜乙＞寛治八年寫高山寺藏本 Source: Buzan College Canon version, published in the Kyōhō era [1716-1736]; 1. manuscript from the Takayama Temple collection, 6th year of the Kyūan era [1145-1151]; 2. manuscript from the Takayama Temple collection, 8th year of the Kanji era [1087-1094].

English translation

van Gulik, Robert Hans 1935, Hayagrīva: The Mantrayānic Aspect of the Horse-Cult in China and Japan, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pp. 85–94.

Primary Source

Amoghavajra, 《聖賀野紇哩縛大威怒王立成大神驗供養念誦儀軌法品》 'Sheng He Ye Ge Li Fu Da Wei Nu Wang Li Cheng Da Shen Yan Gongyang Niansong Yi Gui Fa Pin,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 20, No. 1072A, Accessed 2016-10-08, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T20n1072A.

References

  1. Giebel 2011, pp. 27-36.
  2. Shahar 2017, pp. 148-160.

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