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title: "靈峰蕅益大師宗論 · 大悲壇前願文"
description: "靈峰蕅益大師宗論是明末高僧智旭的著作。明末佛教面臨內部僵化與外部挑戰，智旭大師立足天台宗，主張禪教律淨融合，回應時代弊病。該書匯集其書信、註疏與開示，系統闡述性相融通、淨土為歸的佛學思想，強調解行並進與實踐修行。作為中國佛教史上承先啟後的巨著，它深刻影響了後世漢傳佛教的發展，尤其對淨土宗的推廣貢獻卓著，被尊為淨土宗第九祖的智旭，其思想透過此論成為明清佛教的重要指南。"
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### 大悲壇前願文

> Great Compassion Altar Vow Text

歸命頂禮十方常住三寶，大悲觀世音菩薩，地藏菩薩摩訶薩。伏祈同賜哀憐，俯垂拔濟。切惟智旭，向於九華，拈得閱藏著述一鬮，遂復安心，重理筆硯，適於祖堂輪現，所患命盡之語，理應併意，徑馳樂邦。獨可痛者，閱藏未完，則私願未滿；教觀無繼，則法輪無傳。且《梵網》、《佛頂》，雖已竭一隙之明，如塵培嶽；而《楞伽》、《唯識》，猶復錮繁言之障，如霧迷空。自非假我數年，何以了茲陳債。自非洪慈庇護，安能不擾他緣。敬然臂香十炷，供養十方慈父，大悲觀音，地藏本尊，法界三寶。伏願智旭，從今以去，永離違緣，決定閱完大藏，得成《閱藏知津》、《法海觀瀾》二書。決能撰述《成唯識論》、《觀心法要》，及《相宗八要直解》，決能解釋《楞伽》尊經，及《占察》十輪度世要典。決能闡明無量壽會，彌陀賢護，淨土津梁。決能發暢《大般涅槃》，扶律談常，最後垂範。又願學侶，乃至現在未來，諸有志者，決能戒根永淨，福慧圓成，壽命延長，解行雙到。又願智旭，煩惱冰鎔，智慧火熾，十惡根枯，六情性露。又願萬民無三災之苦，四姓伐邪見之林。又願以此功德，普施法界眾生，臨命終時，決定得生阿彌陀佛極樂世界，親承供養大悲觀音，得無量無邊三昧神通，總持智慧，同地藏慈尊，普入法界諸大地獄，救度一切苦惱眾生，乃至分形散體，橫遍豎窮，十界現身，三輪施化。如一眾生未成佛，終不於此取泥洹。

> I bow in reverence to the eternal Triple Gem pervading all directions, to the Greatly Compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva, and to Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva-Mahāsattva. I humbly pray that you all bestow your pity and compassion, reaching down to rescue and support me. Consider this: Zhi Xu, having once at Jiuhua Mountain drawn the divination slip to "read the scriptures and write," then settled his mind once more to take up his brush and ink. At that very moment, the words "karmic destiny" appeared on the ancestral hall altar—words that spoke of his life's end. According to reason, he should have concentrated all his energy and sped straight to the Land of Bliss. Yet the pain that moved him was this: his reading of the scriptures is incomplete, and thus his personal vow remains unfulfilled; the teaching and contemplation have no successor, and so the Dharma wheel will not be transmitted. Moreover, though the \*Brahmā’s Net Sūtra\* and the \*Śūraṅgama Sūtra\* have been illuminated to the best of his limited insight, it is like adding dust to Mount Sumeru. As for the \*Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra\* and the \*Consciousness-Only\* teachings, they remain blocked by the barrier of excessive and complicated words, like mist covering an empty sky. Unless he is granted a few more years, how can he clear these old debts? Unless great compassionate protection shelters him, how can he avoid disturbances from other conditions? Therefore, I reverently offer ten incense sticks from my arm as a sacrifice to the ten directions: to my compassionate fathers, to the Greatly Compassionate Guanyin, to Kṣitigarbha as the fundamental deity, and to the Triple Gem throughout the Dharma realm. I humbly pray that from this day forward, Zhi Xu may be forever free from adverse conditions, that he may definitively complete reading the entire canon and produce the two works \*A Guide to Reading the Scriptures\* and \*An Overview of the Dharma Ocean\*. May he surely be able to compose \*Essential Explanations of the Consciousness-Only Doctrine\* and \*The Eightfold Essentials of the Dharma Characteristics School Directly Explained\*. May he surely be able to explain the venerable \*Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra\*, as well as the \*Divination Sūtra\* and the \*Ten Wheels\*—essential scriptures for saving the world. May he surely be able to expound the \*Infinite Life Assembly\*, the \*Meditation on Amitāyus\*, the \*Guiding Bridge to the Pure Land\*. May he surely be able to illuminate the \*Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra\*, supporting the precepts and speaking of eternity as the final model and example. Furthermore, I pray that for my fellow practitioners—those of the present and those who will come in the future who share this resolve—their foundation of precepts will be eternally pure, their merit and wisdom will be perfectly accomplished, their life spans extended, and their understanding and practice will both reach fulfillment. Again I pray that for Zhi Xu, the ice of afflictions may melt away, the fire of wisdom may blaze brightly, the roots of the ten evils may wither, and the nature of the six sense faculties may be revealed. And I pray that all people may be free from the suffering of the three calamities, and that the four social classes may cut down the forest of wrong views. Finally, I pray that through this merit, universally bestowed upon all sentient beings in the Dharma realm, at the moment of death they may be reborn decisively in the Land of Ultimate Bliss of Amitābha Buddha. There, personally receiving and making offerings to the Greatly Compassionate Guanyin, may they attain countless and boundless samādhi and spiritual powers, the totality of wisdom, and—together with the Compassionate Venerable Kṣitigarbha—universally enter all the great hells in the Dharma realm to rescue and liberate all suffering sentient beings. May they continue to manifest countless forms, pervading both horizontally and vertically, appearing throughout the ten realms as bodies, and dispensing the three kinds of transformation for the salvation of beings. Until even one sentient being has not attained Buddhahood, they will never take final nirvāṇa for themselves.