大毘盧遮那經供養次第法疏 1.7

1.7

Third, as for interpreting the title: "Mahāvairocana-abhisaṃbodhi-vikurvitādhiṣṭhāna-sūtra: Sequence of Offering Rites, Chapter 1: The Training Grounds for Mantra Practice": "Great" (mahā) means boundless. "Vairocana" is the sun, namely, the sun of wisdom. "Attaining Buddhahood" (abhisaṃbodhi) means realizing right awakening and right gnosis. "Vikurvita-adhiṣṭhāna" means sustained by divine power. "Sūtra" means stringing and sewing together; that which is capable of expressing lies here. "Offering" (pūjā) includes offering in principle and offering in practice. "In principle" means merging with the principle and entering realization; this is called offering in principle. "In practice" means exhausting one's heart and mind to prepare incense and flowers to make offerings to the ocean of Buddhas; this is called offering in practice. "Sequence" refers to the order of precedence from bowing in reverence to visarjana. "Method" (dharma) has the meaning of rules and models. "Mantra" eliminates the false and deceptive. "Practice and training" means practicing and studying mantras. "Grounds" are of four kinds: first, the svabhāva of the dharmadhātu; second, the root text of the teaching; third, the transmitting master; fourth, the wondrous mountains and subsidiary peaks, and so on. "Chapter" (parivarta) means class or category. "First" means that this ritual has five chapters, and since this chapter is the very first, it is called the first. For this reason, it is called "Mahāvairocana-abhisaṃbodhi-vikurvitādhiṣṭhāna-sūtra: Sequence of Offering Rites, Chapter 1: The Training Grounds for Mantra Practice."