Toh 2605 · classical Tibetan · Tengyur edition

A Concise Ritual for the Establishment of a Stūpa

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This text, attributed to Avadhūti, provides a condensed ritual procedure for the establishment and accomplishment of a stūpa. The work opens with a Sanskrit title and a Tibetan translation, framing the stūpa as a support for offerings that embodies the wisdom of the three bodies (trikaya). By initiating the ritual with an invocation to Mañjuśrī, the text commits the practitioner to a process of spiritual accomplishment (sādhanā) where the physical construction or veneration of the monument serves as a meditative tool. The brevity of the provided fragments suggests a highly structured, manual-like approach to ritual performance, focusing on the intersection of material architecture and the realization of Buddhist ontological categories. The work functions as a technical guide for transforming a physical object into a locus of enlightened wisdom.

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Genre: Ritual
Period: classical Tibetan
Edition: Tengyur vol. 066
Extent: 2 passages · 1,167 Tibetan characters · 291 English words
Rights: Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)

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About this text

A concise ritual for the accomplishment of a stūpa, the Caityasādhanavidhipiṇḍita belongs to the genre of ritual texts within the Yoga Tantra Treatises. The work is attributed to the Indian author Avadhūtipa Advayavajra. Preserved in the classical Tibetan period, the text appears in volume ཅུ of the Tengyur, where it extends over two pages under the Tibetan title mchod rten gyi sgrub pa'i cho ga mdor bsdus pa. The ritual enacts the transformation of a stūpa into a support for offerings that embodies the wisdom of the three bodies, beginning with an invocation to the noble Mañjuśrī. By framing the monument as a locus for the nature of phenomena free from conceptual elaboration, the work provides a technical procedure for spiritual accomplishment. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to examine the intersection of material architecture and Buddhist ontological categories, utilizing the manual to understand how a physical object is ritualistically converted into a tool for meditative realization.

Sanskrit title: Caityasādhanavidhipiṇḍita
Indian author: Avadhūtipa Advayavajra
Tibetan translators: not recorded
Canonical collection: Yoga Tantra Treatises
Genre: Ritual
Source edition: Tengyur, vol. ཅུ
Period: classical Tibetan

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Significance

The work is significant for illustrating the integration of Indian ritual science with Tibetan liturgical practice regarding the stūpa. It highlights the conceptualization of the stūpa not merely as a reliquary, but as a dynamic support for the realization of the three bodies.

Structure

Passages	Section	Description
1	Introduction and Invocation	Contains the Sanskrit and Tibetan titles and an opening homage to Mañjuśrī and the stūpa.
2	Colophon	Attributes the composition of the work to Avadhūti.

Themes

Ritual Accomplishment (Sādhanā) (1)
The Three Bodies (Trikaya) (1)
Stūpa as Support for Offerings (1)

Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.

AnuvādaA Concise Ritual for the Establishment of a Stūpa·

༄༅༅། ། རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། ཙཻ་ཏྱོ་སཱ་དྷ་ན་བི་དྷི་པཎྜི་ཏ། བོད་སྐད་དུ། མཆོད་རྟེན་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཆོ་ག་མདོར་བསྡུས་པ། འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། ཆོས་ཉིད་དང་བསྡུས་རྟོག་པའི་དྲི་མ་བྲལ། ། རང་བཞིན་ཡོངས་དག་ཡོན་ཏན་ལྡན་པའི་སྐུ། ། ཐུགས་རྗེས་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་འགྲོ་བའི་དོན་མཛད་པ། ། སྐུ་གསུམ་ཡེ་ཤེས་མཆོད་པའི་རྟེན་ལ་འདུད། ། དེ་དོན་འགྲོ་ལ་ཕན་པའི་ཕྱིར། ། རྒྱུད་དོན་ལ་བརྟེན་བདག་གིས་བརྩམ། ། མཆོད་ཅིང་བརྗོད་པ་དྲང་སྲོང་ཆེ། ། ས་རྣམས་ཀུན་གྱི་རྒྱན་ལྡན་བསྐྱེད། ། ཅེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། ས་བསླང་ཞིང་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་པ་བསྟན་ནས། ཀོང་བུ་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཅིང་གདབ་པ་ནི། ། ཤེས་རབ་ཆེན་པོའི་སྐད་ཅིག་ལ། ། ཆོས་ཀུན་ཁོང་དུ་ཆུད་པ་འཆང་། ། ཞེས་བྱ་བས་ཐབས་ཤེས་རབ་གཉིས་སུ་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་པའོ། ། ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་ཏཱིཀྵྞ་དུཿཁ་ཙྪེ་ད་པྲ་ཛྙཱ་ཛྙཱ་ན་མཱུརྟི་ཡེ་ཛྙཱ་ན་ཀཱ་ཡ་བཱ་གཱི་ཤྭ་ར། ཨ་ར་པ་ཙ་ན་ཨ། ཞེས་བྱ་བས་གདབ་བོ། ། བཏབ་པ་དེ་ཇི་ལྟར་བསམ་ཞེ་ན། ཕ་རོལ་ཕྱིན་པ་ཀུན་རྫོགས་པ། ། རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་བདག་མེད་ཆོས། ། ཡང་དག་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཟླ་འོད་བཟང་། ། བརྩོན་ཆེན་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་དྲ་བ་ལས། ། རྒྱུད་ཀུན་གྱི་ནི་བདག་པོ་མཆོག། རྡོ་རྗེ་རིན་ཆེན་དབང་བསྐུར་གནས། ། མཆོད་འོས་བསྟོད་འོས་ཕྱག་གི་གནས། ། རྟག་ཏུ་རིམ་གྲོ་སྨོན་ལམ་གདབ། ། རྒྱུ་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ། འབྲས་བུ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུའི་བདག་ཉིད། ཡེ་ཤེས་ལྔའི་བདག་ཉིད་ཀྱི་སྐུ་བུམ་པ་ན་འོད་དང་བཅས་པ་སེམས་ཅན་རྒྱུད་སྨིན་པ་འོད་འཕྲོ་བ་བསམ་མོ། ། དགེ་བ་དྲི་མེད་གང་ཐོབ་དེས། ། འགྲོ་ཀུན་སྐུ་གསུམ་ཐོབ་པར་ཤོག།

In the language of India: Caityasādhanavidhipaṇḍita. In the language of Tibet: mChod rten gyi sgrub pa’i cho ga mdor bsdus pa (A Concise Ritual for the Accomplishment of a Stūpa). Homage to the noble Mañjuśrī! I bow to the support of offerings for the wisdom of the three bodies: the nature of phenomena, free from the stains of conceptual elaboration; the body endowed with qualities, naturally and utterly pure; and the emanation body that acts for the benefit of beings through compassion. For the sake of benefiting wandering beings, I shall compose this based on the meaning of the tantras. "Having made offerings and recited [the mantra], the great sage generates the ornament of all the stages." This refers to the teaching on requesting the site and blessing it. As for blessing and striking the mold: "In an instant of great insight, he holds the realization of all phenomena." With these words, one blesses the two—method and wisdom. Oṃ vajratīkṣṇa duḥkhaccheda prajñājñānamūrtaye jñānakāya vāgīśvara arapacana aḥ. With this, one strikes it. If one asks how to visualize that which has been struck: "Perfecting all the perfections, the pure dharma of selflessness, the excellent moonlight of authentic wisdom, from the Great Diligence of the Net of Illusion—the supreme lord of all tantras, the site of the empowerment of the Vajra Jewel, the object of offering, praise, and prostration—always perform service and make aspirations." One should visualize the vase as the embodiment of the causal perfections and the resultant dharmakāya, the body of the nature of the five wisdoms, together with light. It radiates light that ripens the continuums of sentient beings. By whatever stainless virtue is obtained, may all wandering beings attain the three bodies.

structureTitle block: the Sanskrit title is given as it is transmitted in Tibetan transliteration, not reconstructed from Sanskrit sources; the Tibetan title is translated after it.

homonymཆོས་ཉིད is rendered “the nature of phenomena” here; the glossary also records true nature of things, suchness, basic nature for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

homonymཡེ་ཤེས is rendered “wisdom” here; the glossary also records awareness, Wisdom, knowledge for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

homonymཆོས is rendered “dharma” here; the glossary also records special qualities, phenomena, qualities for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

homonymཤེས་རབ is rendered “insight” here; the glossary also records discernment, wisdom, knowledge for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

homonymཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ is rendered “dharmakāya” here; the glossary also records body of reality, Dharma body, dharma body for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

Terms and glossary notes (14)

terminologyཆོས་ཉིད → “the nature of phenomena”. Not 'dharma-nature' in running prose; 84000 harmonises on 'the nature of phenomena'.

definitionཆོས་ཉིད “the nature of phenomena” — The real nature, true quality, or condition of things. Throughout Buddhist discourse this term is used in two distinct ways.

terminologyཡེ་ཤེས → “wisdom”. Distinguish from ཤེས་རབ (prajñā, 'insight'): ཡེ་ཤེས is the buddhas' non-dual wisdom, ཤེས་རབ the discriminating faculty on the path.

definitionཡེ་ཤེས “wisdom” — The term jñāna is formed by the root jñā , meaning “to know,” “to know of,” “to understand,” “to be aware of,” with the addition of the pratyaya lyuṭ , which can be interpreted as having different values (the…

periodཆོས → “dharma”. In Abhidharma lists (སྐྱེ་མཆེད, ཁམས) ཆོས is 'phenomena', the objects of mind — not the Buddhist teaching. Same word, two referents; the list decides.

definitionཆོས “dharma” — The term “ dharma ” ( chos ) conveys ten different meanings, according to Vasubandhu’s Vyākhyāyukti .

definitionཤེས་རབ “insight” — In this text shes rab seems to mean primarily knowledge (defined as insight and understanding one has gained through studying and experience), specifically knowledge of the teachings of the Buddha in general, and of…

definitionཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ “dharmakāya” — Sometimes translated “truth body,” “reality body,” or “body of qualities,” the term dharmakāya stands in distinction to the rūpakāya , or “ form body” of a buddha.

termཕྱག་འཚལ → homage

termཆོས་ཉིད → the nature of phenomena

termཐུགས་རྗེ → compassion

termཡེ་ཤེས → wisdom

termམཆོད་པ → offering

termཆོས → dharma

ཨ་ཝ་དྷཱུ་ཏཱིས་མཛད་པ་རྫོགས་སོ། །

This concludes the work composed by Avadhūti.

Terminology used in this text (8)

Term	Rendering	×	Note
ཕྱག་འཚལ	homage	1
ཆོས་ཉིད	the nature of phenomena	1	Not 'dharma-nature' in running prose; 84000 harmonises on 'the nature of phenomena'.
ཐུགས་རྗེ	compassion	1
ཡེ་ཤེས	wisdom	1	Distinguish from ཤེས་རབ (prajñā, 'insight'): ཡེ་ཤེས is the buddhas' non-dual wisdom, ཤེས་རབ the discriminating faculty o
མཆོད་པ	offering	1
ཆོས	dharma	1	In Abhidharma lists (སྐྱེ་མཆེད, ཁམས) ཆོས is 'phenomena', the objects of mind — not the Buddhist teaching. Same word, two
ཤེས་རབ	insight	1
ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ	dharmakāya	1

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Colophon

Source: tengyur vol. 066. Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction).

Translation status: Not among 84000's published translations, and not in progress there. Translations published elsewhere have not been searched for, so one may exist. (source: 84000 catalogue + registry; checked 2026-11-10).

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