密呪圓因往生集序
Preface to the Collection on Rebirth Through the Perfect Cause of Secret Mantra
竊惟總持無文。越重玄於化表。祕詮有象。敷大用於域中。是以佛證離言。廓圓鏡無私之照。教傅密語。呈神功必効之靈。一字包羅。統千門之妙理。多言冲邃。總五部之旨歸。眾德所依群生攸仰。持之則通心于當念。誦之則滅累于此生。妙矣哉。脫流幻之三有。拔險趣之七重。躋蓮社之淨方。掃雲朦之沙界。促三祇於頃刻五智克彰。圓六度於剎那十身頓滿。其功大其德圓。巍巍乎不可得而思議也。以茲祕典方其餘教。則妙高之落眾峯。靈耀之掩群照矣。宗壽夙累所鐘久纏疾療。湯砭之暇覺雄是依。爰用祈叩真慈懺摩既往。虔資萬善整滌襟靈。謹錄諸經神驗祕呪。以為一集。遂命題曰密呪圓因往生焉。然欲事廣傳通利兼幽顯。故命西域之高僧東夏之真侶。校詳三復華梵兩書。雕印流通永規不朽云爾。時大夏天慶七年。歲次庚申孟秋望日。中書相賀宗壽謹序。
I humbly observe: the Dharani has no written form, yet it transcends the deepest mysteries beyond the reach of manifestation. The secret teachings have outward signs, spreading great benefit throughout the world. Therefore the Buddha realized the ineffable, opening the selfless illumination of the perfect mirror; the teachings transmit secret words, revealing spiritual power that surely brings results. A single character encompasses all, unifying the wondrous principles of a thousand gates. Many words penetrate deeply, gathering the essential meaning of the Five Divisions. It is the support of all virtues and the reliance of all living beings. To hold it in mind is to connect the heart in the present thought; to recite it is to extinguish accumulated burdens in this life. How wonderful! It frees one from the three realms of illusory existence, rescues one from the sevenfold perilous paths, raises one to the pure land of the Lotus Assembly, and sweeps away the clouded darkness of the sand-worlds. It compresses the three asamkhya kalpas into an instant, and the Five Wisdoms are fully revealed; it perfects the Six Perfections in a single moment, and the Ten Bodies are suddenly complete. Its merit is great, its virtue is perfect—so majestic that it cannot be conceived or discussed. When this secret scripture is compared with other teachings, it is like the towering Mount Sumeru rising above all other peaks, like the radiant light eclipsing all other illumination.
Zongshou, having long been burdened by accumulated karma and afflicted by illness for a long time, took refuge in the Buddha during spare moments from medicine and treatment. Thereupon I prayerfully beseeched the true compassion of the Buddha and repented for past deeds. With reverence I gathered ten thousand virtues to cleanse my heart and spirit. I have respectfully recorded the spiritually efficacious secret mantras from various sutras and compiled them into a single collection. I have entitled it "Secret Mantras: Perfect Causes for Rebirth." Wishing that this matter be widely transmitted and benefit both the hidden and the visible realms, I have commissioned eminent monks from the Western Regions and true companions from the Eastern lands to collate and verify it three times in both Chinese and Sanskrit texts, and to carve and print it for circulation, establishing it forever as an imperishable standard.
In the seventh year of Tianqing of the Great Xia, the year being Gengshen, on the full moon day of the first month of autumn, the Zhongshu Minister He Zongshou respectfully writes this preface.
密呪圓因往生集
Collection on Rebirth Through the Perfect Cause of Secret Mantra
甘泉師子峯誘生寺出家承旨沙門智廣編集
Compiled by the renunciant Zhiguang, who received the imperial decree, at Yousheng Temple on Lion Peak of Ganquan
北五臺山大清涼寺出家提點沙門慧真編集
Compiled by Hui Zhen, Renunciant and Superintendent of Monastic Affairs at Great Qingliang Temple, Mount Wutai
蘭山崇法禪師沙門金剛幢譯定
Translated and settled by the renunciant Vajradhvaja, Chan Master Chongfa of Lanshan
歸命大智海毘盧遮那佛
I take refuge in the Buddha Vairocana, ocean of great wisdom.