准提法门The Cundī Gate

准提菩萨，全称七俱胝佛母大准提王菩萨。「准提」意译为清净，亦译作「明觉」，表示此尊心性清净、皎洁明澈；「七俱胝」意为无量数——过去无量诸佛皆曾宣说此咒、依此法门而成就，故尊称准提菩萨为「七俱胝佛母」，即三世诸佛之母。

Cundī Bodhisattva bears the full title Great Cundī, Mother of Seven Koṭis of Buddhas. "Cundī" means purity — a nature immaculately clear and luminous. "Seven koṭis" means countless: innumerable Buddhas of the past proclaimed this mantra and awakened through this practice, which is why Cundī is honored as the "Mother of Buddhas" — the source from which the Buddhas of the three times are born.

据《准提陀罗尼经》记载，释迦牟尼佛在舍卫国祇树给孤独园，以神通力观察未来薄福恶业众生的因缘，悲悯垂护，入「准提三摩地」，宣说了过去七俱胝佛所共说的准提神咒。《佛说大乘庄严宝王经》亦记载，七十七俱胝诸佛如来在六字大明咒的因缘之下同时示现，共同宣说准提神咒。

According to the Cundī Dhāraṇī Sūtra, Śākyamuni Buddha, dwelling at Jetavana in Śrāvastī, beheld the beings of the future — beings of meager merit and heavy karma — and, moved by compassion, entered the samādhi of Cundī and proclaimed the Cundī mantra spoken by seven koṭis of Buddhas of the past. The Mahāyāna Sublime Treasure King Sūtra likewise records that seventy-seven koṭis of Tathāgatas manifested together and jointly proclaimed it.

准提法门的一大特色是普门广摄、易修易成。经中明言：不问在家出家、不拣净秽，但至心持诵，皆可修学。它对修学者没有严苛的门槛限制，因而千百年来深受僧俗四众欢迎，成为汉传佛教中流传最广的密法之一。

The hallmark of the Cundī gate is its openness and accessibility. The sūtra states plainly that monastics and laypeople alike, in any condition of life, may take up the recitation with a sincere heart. With no severe prerequisites, it has been embraced for over a thousand years and became one of the most widely practiced esoteric methods in Chinese Buddhism.

准提佛母常见的形像为三目十八臂：身呈黄白色，面有三目，表悲悯众生的智慧观照；十八臂各持法器，结跏趺坐于莲花之上。十八臂并非表示实有十八只手，而是十八不共法的秘密表征——象征圆满的智慧、功德与方便，能破除十八界（六根、六尘、六识）的束缚，救度一切众生。此外亦有四臂、八臂等不同形像。

Cundī is most often depicted with three eyes and eighteen arms: her body a golden white, the third eye signifying the wisdom that beholds all beings with compassion; the eighteen arms hold ritual implements as she sits in full lotus upon a lotus throne. The arms are not literal limbs but a symbol of the eighteen distinctive qualities of a Buddha — perfect wisdom, merit and skillful means that break the bonds of the eighteen dhātus (the six faculties, six objects and six consciousnesses) and deliver all beings. Four-armed and eight-armed forms also exist.

千手千眼的不一定是观音——若见三目十八臂、跏趺于龙王所护莲座之像，即是准提佛母。Not every many-armed figure is Guanyin — an image with three eyes and eighteen arms, seated on a lotus upheld by nāga kings, is Cundī.

准提神咒是准提法门的核心。持诵之前，通常先诵龙树菩萨所撰的开咒偈——「稽首皈依苏悉帝，头面顶礼七俱胝，我今称赞大准提，唯愿慈悲垂加护」——祈请准提菩萨降临坛场、加持行者，然后持诵咒文。

The Cundī mantra is the heart of this practice. Before reciting it, one traditionally chants the opening gāthā composed by Nāgārjuna — "I bow my head in refuge in Susiddhi, and prostrate to the Seven Koṭis; I now praise the Great Cundī — may compassion embrace and protect us" — inviting Cundī Bodhisattva to the place of practice, then recites the mantra itself. The mantra is traditionally recited in its Chinese transliteration, shown below with pinyin and the Sanskrit original.

以下为依《显密圆通成佛心要集》及近代大德开示整理的简要修持次第，适合日常定课。修持时端身正坐、放松身心；若有准提镜（镜坛），可对镜持诵、于镜前正观。初学者亦可只持准提咒，贵在至诚恒久。

The following concise sequence, drawn from the Essentials for Attaining Buddhahood through the Perfect Fusion of the Exoteric and Esoteric and the instructions of modern teachers, suits a daily practice session. Sit upright and at ease; if you have a Cundī mirror altar, recite facing the mirror. Beginners may simply recite the Cundī mantra alone — sincerity and constancy are what matter.

持咒贵在专一恒常：宁可每日百遍不断，不求一日万遍而废。行住坐卧、出声默念皆可，唯至心为要。Constancy outweighs quantity: better a hundred daily recitations never broken than ten thousand in a day soon abandoned. Walking, standing, sitting or lying down, aloud or silently — sincerity is what counts.

《显密双修准提法观诵集》为完整修持文本，含礼敬文、皈依文、准提赞文、发愿文、普贤行愿品、帝网无尽观与回向文，分标准版、中简版、精简版三种，可按修持时间选用。The Combined Exoteric–Esoteric Cundī Liturgy is the complete practice text — homage, refuge, praises, vows, the Samantabhadra Vows, the Indra's-Net contemplation and dedication — in Standard, Intermediate and Concise versions.

《准提陀罗尼经》中，佛陀详说至心持诵准提神咒的种种利益。经典所载，大要如下：In the Cundī Dhāraṇī Sūtra the Buddha describes at length the benefits of wholehearted recitation. In brief:

功德以至诚心、菩提心为本。持咒非为侥幸求利，而是净化身心、增长慈悲智慧的修行之道。These benefits are rooted in sincerity and bodhicitta. Recitation is not a wager for luck but a path of purifying body and mind and growing in compassion and wisdom.

千百年来，僧俗持诵准提咒的感应记载不绝于书。此处选录数则出处明确、流传最广者，以见此法门之验。For over a thousand years, accounts of responses to the Cundī mantra have filled the historical record. Here are several of the best-attested and most widely told.

感应贵在至诚，不在执求。以清净心、恭敬心、恒常心持诵，因果自然不虚；若怀侥幸投机之心，则与法不相应。当代行者的感应分享甚多，可于正信道场共修中交流印证。Responses come to sincerity, not to grasping. Recite with a pure, respectful and constant heart and cause and effect will not fail; approached as a gamble, the practice cannot connect. Present-day practitioners share many such accounts, best exchanged and verified in group practice at an authentic monastery.

「诸供养中，法供养最。」将准提法门介绍给有缘之人，即是无量法布施。您可以："Of all offerings, the offering of Dharma is supreme." Introducing this gate to those with affinity is boundless generosity. You can: