大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經 (Shubhakarasimha & Yixing 724) 6.39

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emptiness, become sovereign over all dharmas and accomplish supreme perfect awakening. Therefore, this letter [A] is regarded as the deity.”

[The World-honored One] then spoke these verses:

Lord of Mysteries, you should know that the letter A is the

primary state,

Its bright dharma all-pervading and surrounded by a circle of letters.

This deity has no [differentiating] characteristics and is far removed

from seeing [subjects] and [seen] characteristics;

Yet although without characteristics, holy deities manifest

characteristics and come forth from its midst.

Sounds emerge from the letter [A], the letter produces mantras,

And mantras effect results—so have the honored world-saviors

taught.

You should know that the nature of sound is empty and that it has

been created by emptiness.

[But] all kinds of beings are wrongly attached [to external objects]

in accordance with words [expressed by sound].

Neither empty nor sound, it is taught for the practitioner,

And if he enters into liberation by means of sound, he will then

realize samādhi.

Intercorrespondence with the allocation [of the letters] according to

the rules is illuminated by the letters,

And hence there are the conceptual [distinctions] of immeasurable

mantras of the likes of the letter A and so on.

Chapter XXIV

The Exposition of the

Nature of Bodhi

For example, just as it is the characteristic of empty space in the ten

directions

to always pervade everywhere without a support, So too is the mantra world-savior

without a support in any dharmas. Again, just as material forms in space,

though visible, are without a basis, So too is the mantra world-savior

not the basis of those dharmas. The measure of empty space established on a mundane level

is far removed from past, future, and present ages; If one sees the mantra world-savior,

it too transcends the dharmas of the three ages. Abiding only in verbal expression and far removed from

agent and so on, The provisional terms for empty space have been proclaimed by the

Guiding Teacher [only in accordance with conventional usage]. Names are without support, just like empty space; The mantra sovereign is also thus: though it manifests, it is dissociated

from speech. It is neither fire, water, wind, nor earth, nor sunlight, Neither the moon or any other planets, nor day, nor night; It is neither birth, nor old age and sickness, nor death, nor injury, Neither divisions of time such as a kṣaṇa (instant), nor a year

and so on;