建立曼荼羅及揀擇地法 1.20

1.20

凡欲建立曼荼羅先擇其地，自量本所求願，擇取相應之處，先須從師稟受加持之法，心無疑滯，然後善擇其時，取良日吉辰方可建立。七日已前掃灑塗拭，用前真言加持香水遍灑令淨，至日暮時燒香散花敷新淨物，或布荷葉隨其力分。所有香花、飲食、燈明、閼伽等供賢聖及以地神作請地法。修行者著新淨衣，屏去餘人獨入置曼荼羅處。若是露地應以縵幕圍繞或隨時遮閉，各依本部修行真言次第密加持自身，面向東方手執香爐誦啟請偈，曰：

Whenever one wishes to construct a maṇḍala, one must first select the ground, assess one's own original aspiration, select a matching site, and first receive the method of consecration from a master so that the mind has no doubt or hesitation. Then, carefully select the time, choosing an auspicious day and fortunate hour; only then may one construct it. Seven days prior, sweep, sprinkle, and wipe [the site], using the previous mantra to consecrate fragrant water and sprinkle it everywhere to make it pure. When evening arrives, burn incense, scatter flowers, spread new, clean cloths, or lay out lotus leaves according to one's capacity. With whatever fragrant flowers, food and drink, lamps, argha, and so forth, make offerings to the worthy and holy ones and to the earth deity, performing the rite of requesting the ground. The practitioner dons new, clean robes, dismisses other people, and enters the site where the maṇḍala is to be placed alone. If it is in the open air, it should be surrounded with curtains or enclosed according to the occasion. Secretly consecrating oneself successively according to the practice mantras of one's own family, face east, hold an incense burner in hand, and recite the gāthā of invitation, which says: