貞元新定釋教目錄 14.12

14.12

天文。伏乞賜一塔額永垂標記。如　天恩允許伏聽勅旨。上依所請御札親題。并於忌晨賜千僧供。至十三日修表陳謝。詞曰。沙門不空言。不空早侍先大和上猥承獎訓。愧無昇堂之誓謬忝入室之遇。曼茶羅灌頂壇者。萬行之宗密證之主。將涉覺路何莫由斯始先師所傳啟此方耳目。慧燈罷照日月將深。

an imperial piece of writing. I prostrate myself to beg that a stupa placard be granted to endure forever as a sign. If the celestial grace permits, I bow to await the imperial decree." His Majesty assented to the request and personally inscribed the imperial brushwork, and on the morning of the memorial anniversary, he bestowed an offering for a thousand monks. On the thirteenth day, a memorial was prepared expressing gratitude; its text stated: "The śramaṇa Amoghavajra speaks: Early on, Amoghavajra served the late great preceptor and humbly received his encouragement and instructions. Ashamed to have no vows worthy of 'ascending the hall', he was improperly favored with the encounter of 'entering the chamber'. As for the maṇḍala consecration (abhiṣeka) altar, it is the ancestral source of the myriad practices and the lord of secret realization; when one is about to tread the path of awakening, what does not take this as its source? That which was transmitted by my late master opened the ears and eyes of this region. The lamp of wisdom having ceased to shine, the days and months are growing distant.