Religions of Tibet in Practice by Donald S. Lopez Jr

Author:Donald S. Lopez Jr. [Donald S. Lopez Jr.]
Language: rus
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: AvE4EvA
ISBN: 06910118340691011842
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1997-04-02T20:00:00+00:00

Further Reading

An earlier translation appears in Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara's Fasting Ritual Condensed into a Nectar Drop, trans. Roger Jackson, with additional trans, by John Makransky (Oregon, WI: Deer Park Books, 1989). See also the Seventh Dalai Lama, Nyung Na: The Means of Achievement oj the Eleven-Faced Great Compassionate One, Avalakiteshvara, trans. Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche and George Churinoff (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995). For anthropological studies of this ritual in the Nepali context, see Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, The Sherpas oj Nepal: Buddhist Highlanders (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964), pp. 180-85; and Sherry B. Ortner, Sherpas through Their Rituals (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978), pp. 33-60.

280 ROGER JACKSON

Nectar-Drop: The Extremely Condensed Fasting Ritual of Eleven-

Headed Avalokitesvara

I. AUTHORS PREFACE

Having prostrated with my body, speech, and mind to the lotus feet of

the kindly guru,

Who is the compassion of all the conquerers gathered into one,

The one with a white lotus who performs as a saffron-clad monk,

I will set down the practice of this fasting ritual.

II. ONE-DAY MAHAYANA PRECEPTS [DAYS 1 AND 2, AT DAWN]

Wishing to perform the fasting ritual of the eleven-faced noble Avalokitesvara, you should arrange a drawing or actual statue of the body, etc., of the Greatly Compassionate One. Or, if they are unavailable, you should put white points in the center of a mirror, and in front of that put a vase two-thirds filled with pure water. Then, put into the vase the various Action Tantra substances. In front [of the vase] place three rounded tormas and arrange whatever offering is to be received. Then, at daybreak, when the lines of the hand can just be seen, after you have washed well, you should take the one-day Mahayana precepts. You should prostrate to the altar, conceiving it as the actual Greatly Compassionate One. First, take refuge [in the Buddha, dharma, and sangha], generate the enlightened thought, and contemplate the four immeasurables [love, compassion, joy, and equanimity].

All buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions, with your divine wisdom please pay attention to me. As the previous tathagatas, the arhats, the fully enlightened buddhas like a divine skillful wise horse, a great elephant, did what had to be done, accomplished all tasks, overcame all the burdens of the five aggregates controlled by delusion and karma, fulfilled all their aspirations by relinquishing their attachments, by speaking immaculately divine words and liberating the minds of all from the bondage of subtle delusions' impression, and who possess great liberated transcendental wisdom, for the sake of all that lives, in order to benefit all, in order to prevent famine, in order to prevent mental and physical sicknesses, in order for living beings to complete a bud-dha's thirty-seven realizations, and to receive the stage of fully completed buddhahood, I, who am named , from now until sunrise tomorrow shall take the eight Mahayana precepts just as you have done.

Three times.

From now on I shall not kill, nor steal others' possessions, nor engage in sexual conduct, nor lie. I shall avoid intoxicants from which many mistakes arise. 1 shall not sit on large, high, expensive beds.

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