Summary
s.1The Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa is the largest and most important single text devoted to Mañjuśrī, the bodhisattva of wisdom. A revealed scripture, it is, by its own classification, both a Mahāyāna sūtra and a Mantrayāna kalpa (manual of rites). Because of its ritual content, it was later classified as a Kriyā tantra and assigned, based on the hierarchy of its deities, to the Tathāgata subdivision of this class. The Sanskrit text as we know it today was probably compiled throughout the eighth century ᴄᴇ and several centuries thereafter. What makes this text special is that, unlike most other Kriyā tantras, it not only describes the ritual procedures, but also explains them in terms of general Buddhist philosophy, Mahāyāna ethics, and the esoteric principles of the early Mantrayāna (later called Vajrayāna), with an emphasis on their soteriological aims.
s.1《大方廣菩薩文殊師利根本儀軌經》是專門闡述文殊師利這位智慧菩薩的最大和最重要的單一文獻。作為一部啟示經典，根據其自身的分類，它既是大乘經，也是密咒乘儀軌（儀式修持手冊）。由於其儀軌內容，它後來被歸類為事部密續，並根據其本尊的等級制度，被列入此類的如來部中。我們今日所知的梵文文本大概是在西元八世紀及其後的幾個世紀內編纂而成的。這部文獻的特殊之處在於，不同於大多數其他事部密續，它不僅描述儀軌程序，還用一般佛教哲學、大乘倫理和早期密咒乘（後稱金剛乘）的秘密原則來解釋它們，並強調其救度論的目標。