Yoga Flaming Mouth Commentary Compendium Essential Ritual (瑜伽燄口注集纂要儀軌)

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Qing · by 寂暹纂

28,186 · about 94 min

The "Yoga Flaming Mouth Commentary Compilation: Essential Ritual Manual" was compiled and organized by the monastic Jixian during the Qing Dynasty, serving as a significant Buddhist text on the ritual of food offering. This work is based on the "Yoga Compilation for Saving Ānanda: Dhāraṇī Flaming Mouth Ritual Sūtra" translated by Amoghavajra of the Tang Dynasty. It synthesizes the essential commentaries from various historical periods, systematically expounding the procedures, mantras, mudrās, and visualization methods of the Yoga Flaming Mouth food-offering practice. Its content integrates esoteric Buddhist principles with the practices of Chinese Buddhism, providing an authoritative model for conducting Flaming Mouth ceremonies to liberate deceased beings. This ritual manual holds a revered status within Chinese Buddhism, particularly in Chan and Pure Land school ceremonies, and serves as an important document for the study of Buddhist rituals during the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as the sinicization of esoteric Buddhism.