八关斋戒押座文【英】

“Ritual-Opening Prayer for the Eight Precepts Practice”

定义

唐代押座文。共三十六句，宣讲梵天诸佛、天地鬼神降临道场，而各亡灵亦降道场受戒，以祝愿“合家无障难”，祝愿诸弟子“清净身心戒品圆”，祝愿“听众闻经罪消灭”，起到吸引听众安心听讲经文的作用。

A ritual-opening prayer from the Tang Dynasty with a total of 36 lines. It describes the scene where Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from the Brahma Heaven and deities from heaven and earth descend to the ritual site for initiating various ghosts into the Buddhist precepts. It functions as a prayer for eliminating karmic impediments and suffering for a family, for purifying the minds and bodies of followers and cultivating their Buddhist ethics, and for delivering lay followers from their wrongdoings. In this way, the prayer helps draw the audience’s attention to the function of sutra preaching or expounding.