貞元新定釋教目錄 14.12

14.12

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.