Draft:Collected Dhāraṇī Sūtras

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Collected Dhāraṇī Sūtras [zh] is a Buddhist scripture.^[1] It has a rainmaking tract. The rainmaking tract in the Collected Dhāraṇī Sūtras [zh]^[a] (Book 11, under the chapter for "Rain Prayer Altar Method, qiyu tanfa; 祈雨壇法) prescribes an altar to be built, with mud figures of dragon kings placed on the four sides, and numerous mud-made lesser dragons arranged within and without the altar.^[2]^[4]

Notes[edit]

^ Translated by Atikūṭa 阿地瞿多.

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Citations[edit]

^ "NTI Reader". ntireader.org. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
^ Sakade (2010), pp. 61–65.
^ Ariga (2020), p. 173.
^ Raiyu [ja]'s edited work Hishō mondō 秘鈔問答 quotes from this sutra: "As the Collected Dhāraṇī Sūtras, 11 states, this altar should have a single-walled and four-gated boundary be made around its field. And on the East gate of the altar, the gate officer should be crafted out of mud, in the embodiment of the dragon king 其壇界畔作一重而開四門。壇之東門将以泥土作、龍王身".^[3]

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Sources[edit]

Ariga, Natsuki [in Japanese] (March 2020). "Kongō-ji zō 'Ryūō-kōshiki' no shikibun sekai: shakuronchūshaku to kiugirei wo megutte" 金剛寺蔵『龍王講式』の式文世界 : 釈論注釈と祈雨儀礼をめぐって [The study of Ryūō-kōshiki at Kongō-ji Temple : Consideration into the influence of Syakumakaenron and its commentaries and the rituals to pray]. Jinbun / Gakushuin University Research Institute for Humanities-journal. 18: 166–180. hdl:10959/00004813.
Faure, Bernard R. (June 2005). "Pan Gu and his descendants: Chinese cosmology in medieval Japan" 盤古及其後代：論日本中古時代的中國宇宙論. Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies. 2 (1): 71–88. doi:10.7916/D8V40THT. pdf @ National Taiwan Normal University
Fowler, Jeanine D. (2005). An Introduction to the Philosophy and Religion of Taoism: Pathways to Immortality. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 1845190866.^{[dead link]}
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Overmyer, Daniel L. (2009). Local Religion in North China in the Twentieth Century the Structure and Organization of Community Rituals and Beliefs (PDF). Leiden, South Holland; Boston, Massachusetts: Brill. ISBN 9789047429364. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-16. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
Ruppert, Brian O. (November 2002). "Buddhist Rainmaking in Early Japan: The Dragon King and the Ritual Careers of Esoteric Monks". History of Religions. 42 (2): 143–174. doi:10.1086/463701. JSTOR 3176409. S2CID 161794053.
Sakade, Yoshinobu [in Japanese] (2010). Nihon to dōkyō bunka 日本と道教文化. Kadokawa shoten.
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Trenson, Steven (2002). "Une analyse critique de l'histoire du Shōugyōhō et du Kujakukyōhō : rites ésotériques de la pluie dans le Japon de l'époque de Heian" (PDF). Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie (in French). 13: 455–495. doi:10.3406/asie.2002.1191.
Zhang Lishan (2014-03-31). Higashi ajia ni okeru Dokō shinkō to bunka kōshō 東アジアにおける土公信仰と文化交渉 (Thesis). Kansai University. doi:10.32286/00000236.

Worship of the Dragon God[edit]

Dragon Kings of the Four Seas[edit]

[2] Translated by Atikūṭa 阿地瞿多.

[1] "NTI Reader". ntireader.org. Retrieved 2023-11-03.

[FOOTNOTESakade201061–65-3] Sakade (2010), pp. 61–65.

[FOOTNOTEAriga2020173-4] Ariga (2020), p. 173.

[5] Raiyu [ja]'s edited work Hishō mondō 秘鈔問答 quotes from this sutra: "As the Collected Dhāraṇī Sūtras, 11 states, this altar should have a single-walled and four-gated boundary be made around its field. And on the East gate of the altar, the gate officer should be crafted out of mud, in the embodiment of the dragon king 其壇界畔作一重而開四門。壇之東門将以泥土作、龍王身".^[3]

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