供養儀式 1.56

1.56

Next, as for other offering requisites that should be presented, one follows these ritual procedures to purely and reverently make offerings to the assembly of holy honoured ones. Furthermore, one performs the mental ritual: pure and extremely magnificent, the offerings are all abundant and filled, equal as the dharmadhātu, throughout this realm and other Buddha-lands, universally entering all destinies. Arising from the merits of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are banners, pennants, and various jeweled canopies, vast and wondrous storied pavilions, as well as kingly celestial jewel-trees, with all kinds of requisites everywhere, clouds of various fragrant flowers and so forth, boundless like empty space. Each rains down various offering items to perform the Buddha-work of offering. One mindfully offers them to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Using the Ākāśagarbha vidyā and the universal offering seal, one performs empowerment with three turns; whatever is wished will all be accomplished. Next, placing the universal seal upon the crown of the head, one makes extensive offerings and repents all defilements. Following the original ritual seat, one then enters samādhi, places the root seed-syllable within one's own body, and transforms into the body of the principal deity. The mantra is (with the previous universal offering seal):