陀羅尼雜集 8.100

8.100

For all people, great and small, who suffer from illnesses and calamities, the Buddha now commands the bhikṣus, bhikṣuṇīs, upāsakas, and upāsikās to all chant and recite it. Whether there are ghosts of the state, mountain ghosts, forest ghosts, grass-and-tree ghosts, cemetery ghosts, charnel-ground ghosts, ghosts on the earth, ghosts in the heavens, ghosts of the Northern Dipper, ghosts of the empty sky, marketplace ghosts, ghosts of the dead, ghosts of the living, ghosts of hunger and starvation, ghosts along the road, ghosts off the road, ghosts within the hall, ghosts outside the hall, ghosts in water, ghosts beside water, ghosts in fire, ghosts beside fire, ghosts within the body, ghosts outside the body, ghosts of food and drink, or ghosts when lying down—now the Buddha says: 'Whether there are red ghosts, black ghosts, tall ghosts, short ghosts, giant ghosts, dwarf ghosts, medium ghosts, white ghosts, yellow ghosts, blue-green ghosts, dark ghosts, ghosts in dreams, or childbirth ghosts'—the Buddha says: 'If wrathful weapons and cudgels arise, all should mindfully recall this Mani-luodan Sūtra, and the ghost-spirits will smash themselves to pieces.'"