[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Buddhist tantras and tantric exegesis](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra) › [Performance tantras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya) › [Mahāvairocanābhisambodhisūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana) › [大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經 (Śubhakarasiṃha & Yixing 724)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh) › [The Vairocanabhisambodhi Sutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk) › 1.17 # 大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經 (Shubhakarasimha & Yixing 724) 1.17 The Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sutra 1.17 - **Language:** English ### [1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk.1.17) He should draw a maṇḍala in order to bring benefit to the disciple. “Lord of Mysteries, having selected a site, he clears away pebbles, broken earthenware, potsherds, skulls, hair, chaff, ashes, cinders, thorns, bones, rotten wood, and so on, as well as insects, ants, dung beetles, and poisonous or stinging kinds \[of creatures\]. “Once such flaws have been removed, on the morning of a propitious day, having determined a day on which the time, lunar mansion, and planets are all in harmony, and at a time before the \[morning\] meal with an auspicious sign, he should first make obeisance to all the Tathāgatas and arouse the Earth God\[dess\] (Pṛthivī) with these verses: You, O Goddess, are witness to how the buddhas, guiding teachers, Performed special practices and purified the \[ten\] stages and pāramitās. Just like the Lion of the Śākyas, savior of the world, who defeated the hosts of Māra’s army, I too will vanquish Māra, and \[then\] I shall draw a maṇḍala. “He should kneel down with his \[right\] hand stretched out upon the ground and chant this verse repeatedly. He should \[also\] make offerings of unguent, flowers, and so on, and after having made offerings, the mantrin should again take refuge in all the Tathāgatas. Then he prepares the site in accordance with \[ritual\] procedures so that it possesses many virtues.” Then the vajradhara Lord of Mysteries bowed down at the feet of the World-honored One and spoke these verses: “The Buddha’s Dharma is free from all characteristics, and the Dharma abides in the station of the Dharma; What you have explained is incomparable, without characteristics, and unconditioned. Yet why, O Great Energetic One, do you teach this which has characteristics, As well as mantra practices? This does not conform with the way of Dharma-thusness!” Then the Bhagavān, the Buddha Vairocana, Addressed Vajrapāṇi: “Listen carefully to the characteristics of the Dharma! The Dharma is free from differentiation and all false conceptions. If one eliminates false conceptions and the workings of the mind and thought, The supreme and perfect awakening that I attained is ultimately like empty space, But unknown to ordinary foolish beings, who are wrongly attached to the objective realm. That they hanker after \[auspicious\] times, directions, signs, and so on is because they are enveloped by ignorance, And it is in order to liberate them that these are taught in conformity with them as an expedient. But in reality there is no time or direction, nothing done, and no doer; All dharmas simply abide in the real character \[of things\]. Furthermore, Lord of Mysteries, in future ages - [Previous: 1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk.1.16) - [Next: 1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk.1.21) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-mt.1.17) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經 (Śubhakarasiṃha & Yixing 724)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh.1.17) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk.1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.tantra.carya.mahavairocana*zh~en-bdk.1.17) · Pramāṇa