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Jin’gang ding yujie niansong guiyi (Ritual Pro-
ceedings for the Invocation of the Vajraśekhara Yoga).^127 A ritual text
related to the Vajraśekhara cycle of Esoteric Buddhist scriptures.
Jin’gang ershiba jie (Twenty Eight Vajra Precepts).^128 A
Sino-Tibetan bilingual manuscript that most likely dates from around
800 C.E., likely modeled on a Tibetan Buddhist ritual text.
Jin’gang jie da manchaluo shiliu pusa zan
(Hymns to the Sixteen Bodhisattvas of the Great Vajradhātu
Mandala).^129 A ritual text related to the Vajraśekhara sūtra. This litur-
gical text is part of a manuscript containing only Esoteric Buddhist
material.
Jin’gang jun jing jin’gangding yiqie rulai shen miao mimi jin’gang jie da
sanmeiye xiuxing sishier zhong tanfa jing zuoyong weiyi da Piluzhena
fo jin’gang xindi famen mifa jie tanfa yize
(Vajra Lord Sūtra Vajra Us ṇ̣īsa ̣
All Tathāgatas Body, the Secret Vajradhātu Great Samaya Cultivation
Forty-two Types af Altar Methods Sūtra to be Used for Making the
Ritual of the Great Vairocana Buddha Vajra Mind-ground Follow-
ers Secret Method All Altar Methods).^130 Neither a sūtra nor a proper
ritual work related with Amogavajra, this text is a local composition
in which Chan Buddhist historiography and Zhenyan practices are
fused.^131
Bimi zang lianhua feibu zhong you shier bei Guanzizai pusa mohe fa
(Great Method of
the Secret Lotus Storehouse Female Section in Which There is the
Twelve-armed Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva).^132 A ritual text used for
the worship of one of the Esoteric Buddhist forms of Avalokiteśvara.
(^127) P. 2105V°. Incomplete manuscript.
(^128) P. 3861 (1).
(^129) P. 2322 (2).
(^130) P. 3913, P. 4661, Gansu Provincial Museum in Lanzhou 015, S. 2316V° (only
Chapter 2, Sections 26, 28), S. 2144, S. 4478, S. 5981, S. 3212, S. 2791. See also ZFW,
vol. 11, Second Series, pp. 17–145. 131
See Sørensen, “The Presence of Esoteric Buddhist Elements in Chinese Bud-
dhism during the Tang,” in this volume. 132
Cf. P. 3874 (2).