往生淨土懺願儀 1.4

1.4

當選閑靜堂室，先去舊土，後於靜處取新土，須地無瓦石及先非穢染，用填其地，以香和塗，極令清淨。次於其上懸新寶蓋，蓋中懸五雜旛，及遍室懸諸繒綵旛華，取好莊嚴。安佛像西坐東向，觀音侍左，勢至侍右，像前列眾好華及蓮華等，若安九往生像最好，無亦無妨。餘者嚴事，隨力安之。次周設薦席，慮地卑濕。行人須新淨衣，如絕無新淨，即浣染身中上者，浴後披著，方入道場，應從門頰左右出入，鞋履齊正，不得雜亂。其所往時須換故衣，沐浴後却著淨衣，日日如是。次於道場，當自傾竭種種供養三寶，若不盡其所有供養，行法不專，必無感降，如絕無己物，方可外求。行者十人已還，多則不可，宜於六齋日建首。

One should select a quiet hall or room. First remove the old soil, and then take fresh soil from a secluded place. The ground must be free of tiles and stones, and not previously defiled. Use it to fill in the ground, and smear it with fragrance blended in, making it exceedingly pure. Next, suspend a new jeweled canopy above it. Inside the canopy, hang banners of five mixed colors, and throughout the room hang banners and flowers of silk and multicolored fabric, aiming for fine adornment. Set up an image of the Buddha seated in the west facing east, with Avalokiteśvara attending on the left and Mahāsthāmaprāpta attending on the right. In front of the images, arrange many fine flowers, lotus blossoms, and the like. It is best if images of the nine grades of rebirth are set up, but there is no harm if they are absent. As for the rest of the adornments, arrange them according to one's capacity. Next, spread mats all around, taking precautions against the dampness of the low ground. Practitioners must wear newly cleaned clothes; if there are absolutely no new and clean ones, then wash and dye the best among one's clothing, bathe, and only then put them on to enter the bodhimaṇḍa. One should enter and exit via the left or right of the doorposts, with shoes aligned properly, not in disarray. When going out, one must change into old clothes, bathe, and then put the clean clothes back on, doing so day after day. Next, in the bodhimaṇḍa, one should exhaust one's resources to offer various kinds of offerings to the Three Jewels. If one does not offer all that one possesses, one's practice of the method will lack singlemindedness and will surely fail to induce a response. Only if one has absolutely no possessions of one's own may one seek them externally. There should be ten practitioners or fewer; more is not permissible. It is appropriate to commence on one of the six poṣadha days.