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<h5>Liturgy in the Vast Praxis Tradition</h5> | |||
The Vast Praxis tradition has a different procedure and liturgies for administering the aspiring and engaged bodhicitta vows separately. Below are given the core parts of the liturgies which the officiant must read out three times and have the recipient of the vow repeat or respond to. | |||
<h5>Core Liturgy for the Aspiring Bodhicitta</h5> | |||
The officiant chants the following lines three times and has the recipient of the vow repeat after him or her. | |||
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|quote-text=By means of whatever roots of virtue having the nature of generosity, morality, or meditation that I, who am named so-and-so, have performed in any of my various past lives, that I induced others to perform, or that I have rejoiced at when they were performed by others, just as the former tathāgatas, arhats, and true and complete buddhas, as well as the bodhisattvas who are great beings that reside on the great ārya bodhisattva stages, generated the mind that aspires to attain unsurpassed true and complete enlightenment, I, too, who am named so-and-so, from this moment on until I reach the seat of enlightenment, generate the mind that aspires to attain unsurpassed true and complete great enlightenment. | |||
I shall deliver those who have not been delivered; | |||
I shall liberate those who have not been liberated; | |||
I shall provide relief to those who are without relief; | |||
and I shall establish all beings who have not attained complete | |||
nirvana in that state of complete nirvana.<ref>Artemus Engle, trans., ''Kadam: Stages of the Path, Mind Training, and Esoteric Practice, Part 1'', vol. 3 of The Treasury of Precious Instructions: Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet, comp. Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye (Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2024), 462.</ref> | |||
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<h5>Core Liturgy for the Engaged Bodhicitta</h5> | |||
The liturgy for taking the engaged bodhicitta vow in the Vast Praxis tradition contains many questions and answers in order to prepare and confirm the conviction of the practitioner before taking the actual vow. The following lines are only the core and final part of the recitation which the officiant must say three times and the recipient of the vow must respond to affirmatively. | |||
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|quote-text=Then, the spiritual teacher should ask: | |||
O son or daughter of good family who is named so-and-so, do you accept from me, a spiritual teacher and bodhisattva who is named so-and-so, all of the bodhisattva precepts and all of the bodhisattva morality—namely, the morality of restraint, the morality of acquiring virtuous qualities, and the morality of acting on behalf of sentient beings—those precepts and that morality that have been observed by all the bodhisattvas of the past, those precepts and that morality that shall be observed by all the bodhisattvas of the future, and those precepts and that morality that currently are being observed by all the bodhisattvas of the present throughout the ten directions, those precepts and that morality with regard to which all the bodhisattvas of the past have trained themselves, with regard to which all the bodhisattvas of the future shall train themselves, and with regard to which all the bodhisattvas of the present are training themselves? | |||
The disciples should receive the vow by answering: | |||
I do accept all of them.<ref>Engle, ''Kadam'', 483.</ref> | |||
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