菩薩受齋經 1.2

1.2

The ritual for receiving the bodhisattva fast states: 'I, [name], take refuge in the Buddha, take refuge in the Dharma, take refuge in the Saṅgha of monks. The evil done by my body, the evil spoken by my mouth, and the evil thought by my mind have now been abandoned and eliminated. For such-and-such number of days and such-and-such number of nights, I receive the bodhisattva fast and take refuge in the bodhisattvas, just as the sixty thousand bodhisattvas before all maintained this fast. I am a bodhisattva, maintaining the fast kept by the former practicing bodhisattvas: Mañjuśrī, Huannajiulou, Awutuo, Tanwujia, Maitreya, Aweilushili, Shamantuoloutanna, Luoshouleng, and Tuosumingsu bodhisattvas. I am a bodhisattva, keeping the bodhisattva fast. As I distribute dāna in generosity, may I attain the dāna-pāramitā; as I receive prediction [of buddhahood], may I attain the vīrya-pāramitā; as I sit in dhyāna with single-minded focus, may I attain the dhyāna-pāramitā; as I expound the sūtras, may I attain the prajñā-pāramitā. This is upāyakauśalya, and from this, may I attain the mahāprajñā-pāramitā. Just as I hold in mind the beings in the hells, the beings among the pretas, and the beings among the animals, causing them to be liberated and reborn as humans, so from this distribution of dāna in generosity may I arrive before the Amitābha Buddha of the Sukhavatī world realm and receive samādhi and dhyāna.' This is the ritual for receiving the bodhisattva fast.