ཤས་པས་ཐམས་ཅད་མཐར་ཕྱན་པར་གྲབ་པའ་མཆད་རྟན་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 11

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One should next recite the great spell oṁ a candra­maṇḍala hūṁ phaṭ,⁵³ which emerges from the place where a white syllable a stands in the center of the fivefold, hundredfold, or thousandfold maṇḍala grid. After reciting it an equivalent number of times,⁵⁴ each cell becomes a moon-disk seat for a caitya. This is what one should imagine.

After that, when performing the maṇḍala rite one should face either east or west, whichever is easier, and use one’s samādhi to transform oneself into the great seal, the form of Vajradhara.

Above a moon disk at the heart, one should create a five-pronged vajra that emits an effulgence of wisdom light. These rays of wisdom light radiate from every pore on one’s body, spreading infinitely like cloud banks of buddhas and their maṇḍalas. They bless all the realms of beings, fulfill their aims, and then dissolve back into one’s body. This is what one should imagine.

Next is the generation of the caitya palace. One should form the vajradhātu ⁵⁵ gesture over the caitya placed in the maṇḍala, touch the top of the caitya, and then recite the mantra for the great spell: oṁ vajra­dhātu adhitiṣṭha hūṁ.⁵⁶ Through this blessing, the caitya will be established in the center of a moon seat upon a dharmadhātu maṇḍala and a ground made of precious substances, all within a palace composed of various precious materials.⁵⁷ This is what one should imagine.

Once each caitya has been prepared in this way, set out, and presented with different kinds of offerings, one should recite the spell for purifying different kinds of offerings, including lion banners, cooked rice, arrangements of fine foods and the like, canopies, streamers, parasols, garlands, fragrances, lamps, and incense:⁵⁸ oṁ sarvapūja puṣpe svāhā.⁵⁹ After it has been recited, its blessings will cause the offerings to amass as marvelous Samantabhadra offering clouds