OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000025The Sutra Asked by Bodhisattva Wonderful Arm is a scripture related to Esoteric Buddhism and mantra practice, translated into Chinese in four fascicles by Fatian of the Song dynasty under imperial decree. This item is an image edition from the Jin-printed canon system of Guangsheng Monastery in Zhaocheng.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000035“Manifestation Images of the Great Compassion Dharani” is a collection of visual materials centered on the Great Compassion Dharani and the faith in Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, and may be consulted together with the Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Great Perfect Unimpeded Great Compassion Heart Dharani Sutra.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000036“Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Great Compassion Heart Dharani” is a text related to Avalokitesvara dharani and Esoteric Buddhist ritual practice. This item is attributed to a translation by the Tang Tripitaka master Amoghavajra and is a Ming dynasty manuscript and painted edition in gold pigment, possessing both the value of a scripture-mantra text and of Buddhist calligraphy and painting.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000053The “Yogacara Yankou Ritual Manual” belongs to the esoteric Buddhist yankou ritual system of Chinese Buddhism, associated with traditions of food offering, memorial rites for the deceased, deliverance rites, and yankou ceremonies in monasteries.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000055"Finely Executed Great Compassion Dharani Buddha Images" is a Qing dynasty colored Buddhist pictorial work centered on the Great Compassion Dharani, Guanyin devotion, and Buddhist imagery, possessing value for worship, recitation, and image studies.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000056"Auspicious Hevajra Assembly Wheel Nectar Spring" belongs to the Hevajra textual tradition of Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism; this gold-ink illustrated manuscript from the fourth year of the Zhengtong era of the Ming dynasty possesses value as an esoteric ritual text, manuscript artifact, and work of Buddhist art.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000057The “Praise to the Twenty-One Saviouress Mothers” is a liturgical text related to the cult of Tara. The Qing manuscript copied by Yongrong preserves the form in which praises to the Saviouress Mother circulated within the Chinese-language environment of Tibetan Buddhism during the Qing dynasty.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000062The Vajra Wisdom Sutra on True Chan Inner Seal, Sudden Realization, Void Quiescence, and the Dharma Realm is a concertina-format manuscript from the third year of the Xuande reign of the Ming dynasty, calligraphed by Shen Du and illustrated by Shang Xi, possessing research value in Buddhist sutra copying, court painting, and Ming dynasty bookbinding.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000081“Ritual Texts for the Water and Land Rite of Heaven and Earth, the Nether and Yang Realms” is a compilation of ritual procedures and miscellaneous writings related to the Water and Land Dharma Assembly, reflecting the Buddhist tradition of salvation and memorial rites.