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治禪病祕要法

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Basic Meaning: Secret Essentials for Healing the Maladies of Meditation

Senses:

  • The Zhi chanbing miyaofa. 2 fasc.; K 744, T 620. Translation by Juqu Jingsheng 沮渠京聲: between the 8th and 25th days, 9th month, 2nd year of Xiaojian 孝建, Liu Song dynasty 劉宋 (10th month, CE 455. ) in Zhuyuan Monastery 竹園寺. A Central Asian meditation text which describes a series of healing meditations addressing diverse physical ailments, but mainly concentrates on controlling mental apparitions that hinder meditation, such as strong emotions, distractions, troubling visions, sounds, physical sensations, etc. The text introduces much complex visualization that uses animals, deities, colors, gemstones, and other objects, to counteract these. These are organized into twelve sections as follows：
    1. seventy-two methods for calming mental distraction for forest-dwelling monks.
    2. methods for treatment of choking.
    3. methods for treatment of the suffering of craving and lust.
    4. methods for treating addiction to profit.
    5. methods for treating moral transgressions.
    6. methods for treating indulgence in music.
    7. methods for treating indulgence in singing and chanting.
    8. methods of treating the excesses of ferocity and affliction using the water element.
    9. methods for treating headache, eye problems, and deafness using the fire element.
    10. methods for curing insanity caused by the terror occasioned by seeing inauspicious things upon entering the earth-samādhi
    11. methods of treatment using the wind element，
    12. methods for treating beginning meditators who are unable to calm down after seeing ghosts.
    Also called 治禪病祕要經, 禪要祕密治病經. 治禪病祕要法經 and 治禪病祕要. This text is translated and discussed extensively in Greene, 2012. 〔出三藏記集, 梁高僧傳, 歷代三寶紀, 大唐內典錄〕

    [European Language Translations]

    References:

    Greene, Eric M. 2012. “Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Early Medieval Chinese Buddhism.” Ph.D. Diss, Berkeley CA.

    ----. 2022. Secrets of Buddhist Meditation: Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China. Honolulu:  University of Hawai`i Press.

    [Charles Muller, Pierce Salguero, Nyanatusita; source(s): Lancaster, DZKDJT]
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    Entry created: 2009-04-05

    Updated: 2022-06-13