Scripture on the Secret Essentials of Cintāmaṇicakra and the Great Dipper (Qi Xing Ruyi Lun Mimi Yao Jing) 七星如意輪祕密要經

Translated by Amoghavajra

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第 20 冊　No. 1091 七星如意輪祕密要經 唐 不空譯 共 1 卷
Volume 20, No. 1091; Qi Xing Ruyi Lun Mimi Yao Jing; Scripture on the Secret Essentials of Cintāmaṇicakra and the Great Dipper; Translated by Amoghavajra in the Tang in 1 scroll

Summary

The text describes worship of the Big Dipper and Heavenly deities in a mixture of prose and heptasyllabic Chinese verse.

Notes

This text does not appear in the Korean canon. A Taishō footnote for this text reads: ＜原＞享和元年刊長谷寺藏本 Source: Hase-dera Canon version, first year of the Kyōwa era [1801-1804].

English translation

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Primary Source

Amoghavajra, 《七星如意輪祕密要經》 'Qi Xing Ruyi Lun Mimi Yao Jing,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 20, No. 1091, Accessed 2016-10-08, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T20n1091.

References

1. FGDB, s.v. 七星如意輪.
2. Giebel 2011, pp. 27-36.
3. Sørensen 2011e, p. 193.

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