Ritual Procedures for Invoking the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper (Bei Dou Qi Xing Niansong Yi Gui) 北斗七星念誦儀軌

Translated by Vajrabodhi

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第 21 冊　No. 1305 北斗七星念誦儀軌 唐 金剛智譯 共 1 卷
Volume 21, No. 1305; Bei Dou Qi Xing Niansong Yi Gui; Ritual Procedures for Invoking the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper; Translated by Vajrabodhi in the Tang in 1 scroll

Summary

A very short text; one of a group of esoteric rituals relating to the Northern Dipper thought to be of Chinese origin.

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＞久安五年寫東寺三密藏本, ＜乙＞天永四年寫高野山寶壽院藏本 Source: Buzan College Canon version, Kyōhō era [1716-1736]; 1. Tō-ji Sanmitsu Canon version, fifth year of the Kyūan era [1145-1151]; 2. manuscript from Mount Kōya Hojuin Temple collection, Ten'ei era [1110-1113].

English translation

Orzech, Charles D. and Sanford, James H. 2000, “Worship of the Ladies of the Dipper,” In: David G. White (ed.), Tantra in Practice, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 392–393.

Primary Source

Vajrabodhi, 《北斗七星念誦儀軌》 'Bei Dou Qi Xing Niansong Yi Gui,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 21, No. 1305, Accessed 2016-10-09, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T21n1305.

References

1. FGDB, s.v. 北斗七星念誦儀軌.
2. Payne 2011, pp. 284-307.

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