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About Living Buddha Lian-sheng

Living Buddha Lian-sheng, also revered as Grand Master, is the root

lineage guru of True Buddha School. His emanation is from Mahavairocana to

Locana to Padmakumara. Grand Master holds lineages from the Nyingma,

Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

He is a prominent religious figure throughout the world. As of 2008,

over 5 million people have taken refuge in his True Buddha School. With over

300 chapters worldwide, the True Buddha School is recognized as a major

component in Buddhism today. Living Buddha Lian-sheng has written over

200 books in Chinese on topics such as Tantric Buddhism, Geomancy, Zen

Buddhism, and Taoism. Many of these books are now being translated into

English and various other languages.

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Kuan Yin Body Shrine Protection Practice Text

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Disclaimer

Anyone who wishes to engage in any practice in this book must first take

refuge in True Buddha School and receive empowerment from Living Buddha

Lian-sheng or authorized True Buddha Masters.

In this book, mantras are translated using simple English phonetics. Sutras,

verses, and praises are translated using both English and hanyu pin yin. Students

should not assume that the translations can possibly emulate the exact

pronunciations of the Root Guru. It is highly recommended that students obtain

mantra tapes from local True Buddha temples or chapters, or consult with

authorized masters.

This book serves as a guideline for your daily practice. Please refer to Living

Buddha Lian-sheng’s books or consult with authorized masters for more detailed

explanations. If you have further questions, please write to the True Buddha

Foundation.

May the compassionate Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas,

and Dharma Protectors bless these translated practices. May the True Buddha

Tantric Dharma liberate all beings in the Six Realms of Transmigration.

For more information and other True Buddha School related materials,

please visit the following websites:

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First published in the monthly journal of True-Buddha Dharma, The Purple Lotus #46, September 1994

Reprint in www.padmakumara.org on May 3, 2008

Transmitted by Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Sheng-yen Lu Translated by Janny Chow

Painting is illustrated by Jia Lu and GMK Bonnycastle

Copyright solely belongs to Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Sheng-yen Lu


Masters, fellow cultivators, good evening.

The Great Compassion Repentance Ceremony that we have just completed was

extremely successful. Before I sat down to do the meditation this evening, I told

myself that I would enter into a very deep Samadhi. I hoped that, while in the

Samadhi, I would experience a yogic response from the Kuan Yin Bodhisattva,

which I would later relate to everyone.

During the entire meditation, from beginning to end, my whole body was

completely filled with a spiritual energy. While sitting there, I once sipped some

tea, one slightly adjusted the position of my hands, and twice moved my big toes

ever so slightly. For the rest of the entire time, my body was completely

motionless. I'm grateful that the Kuan Yin Bodhisattva manifested himself to me.

I first saw the appearance of many points of sparkling light. Then all those points

of light assembled together to form a Kuan Yin Bodhisattva in the Empty Space.

This Kuan Yin Bodhisattva then taught me a practice called the Kuan Yin

Bodhisattva Shrine Protection Practice the Averts Disasters. He explained his

practice very carefully to meet three times.

To verbally describe his practice clearly might be somewhat difficult because

the Body Shrine revealed to me was very colorful. The only way to do it justice

would be to depict it in a painting. If we have an artist is here tonight, I can

describe it later to him or her, and would very much appreciate it if the image

The Kuan Yin (Avalokitesvara) Body

Shrine Protection Practice That Averts Disasters

(An Oral Teaching by Grand Master Shen-yen Lu at the Ling Shen Ching Tze

Temple, Redmond, Washington on July 23, 1994.)

--Translated by Janny Chow

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could be reproduced in a painting. In the future, if one faced an imminent disaster,

one could practice this Kuan Yin Body Shrine Practice and avert the disaster.

Although a verbal description will not be very clear, I will give it a try. The

Bodhisattva had to repeat the description three times before I was able to memorize

it completely. It is a very colorful and age. When you do this practice, you have to

do the following steps of visualization. Although the shrine in this practice is very

different from the shrine of the Wealth Gods of the Five Directions Practice, there

is a very slight resemblance between the two.

First, whether you are male or female, visualize the hair on your head gathering

together to transform into any Thousand Arms Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin

Bodhisattva sitting atop the center of the shrine. Although monks and nuns have

their heads shaved, they should still visualize themselves with hair to undergo this

transformation. Next, visualize your eyes turning into strands of pearls which are

distributed in circles around the shrine. Visualize your nose transforming into

gemstones which are mounted as a second layer on the shrine, right below the

pearls. The pearls may be visualized as diamonds. So, below the layer of pearls or

diamonds formed from one's eyes is a layer of gems which is formed from one's

nose. Next visualize your teeth transforming into the necklaces worn by the Kuan

Yin Bodhisattva, and these are hung below the gems as a third layer. After this,

visualize your ears transforming into Buddhist banners with Om Mani Padme Hum

written on. These banners are hung all around the shrine.

Your eyes, nose, and mouth (teeth), ears, and hair have now transformed into a

Kuan Yin Shrine or Kuan Yin Mandala. He told me this: turn teeth into his

necklaces, nose into gems, eyes into diamonds and pearls. All these are very

valuable and precious objects.

Next, winds are generated from the soles of your feet. The soles of your feet

transform into a blue colored Wheel of Wind. Your root chakra transformed into a

red Wheel of Fire. The color of the first layer is blue while the color of the second

layer is red. The third layer is a green Wheel of Water which forms from your

navel chakra. The fourth layer is a yellow Wheel of Earth which is transformed


from your heart chakra. These are the 4 layers of "Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind,"

with the wind on the bottom, followed by fire above wind, water above fire, and

earth above water. After forming these four layers, and next transform your spinal

column into the Mount Meru. Mount Meru is a pointed mountain which is brown

in color. On the mountaintop sits a person and you have to visualize that person to

be you your self.

When you do this visualization in your meditation practices, you are doing the

Kuan Yin Body Shrine Protection Practice that Adverts Disasters. This was what

Kuan Yin said, "If you run into some kind of disaster, if you know of an imminent

disaster, or if you are in the middle of the disaster, you can advert the disaster by

doing this practice."

Earlier, while I was sitting here, the Bodhisattva kept reminding me that I had

to memorize it vividly and explain it clearly. The colors have to be correct. That

is, the soles of the feet give rise to blue wind, the root chakra turns into the red fire,

the navel chakra turns into the green water, and the heart chakra turns into a yellow

earth. Then, atop the brown, pointed Mount Meru you yourself sit, about the size

of a grain of rice. On top of you, at the uppermost and, is Thousand Arms

Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin Bodhisattva. Your eyes have transformed into offerings

of pearls. Your nose has transformed into offerings of gems. Your teeth have

transformed into offerings of necklaces. Both of your ears have transformed into

Buddhist banners, inscribed with "Om Mani Padme Hum," and these are hung all

around the shrine. This is called, “the Kuan Yin Body Shrine Protection Practice

that Adverts Disasters.”

The Kuan Yin Bodhisattva related this description to me three times, then he

said, "As long as one does this visualization, chant my Heart Mantra, and entered

into deep meditation, one can advert all kinds of disasters." [Editor's note: On

September 4th, 1994, Grand Master announced at the Redmond Ling Shen Ching

Tze Temple that, as an alternative to "Om Mani Padme Hum", one may also chant

the Heart Mantra of the Thousand Arms Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin which is,

"Namo, sam-man-do moo-toh-nam wah-re-la da-mo-seh"]

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What a wonderful practice this is! If you are aboard an airplane, as long as you

sit down you may do this practice. If you are driving, there might not seem to be

sufficient time to do this, as compared to an airplane flight. But, if you have

perseverance and if you are going on a long distance trip, you may still get inside

the car and do this practice before you start the engine. I can think of many other

good uses for this practice. For example, if there is an influenza epidemic caused

by one of the many types of flu viruses, you may do this practice beforehand. The

virus will stay outside the mandala and not go inside.

If you know that someone is being very mean to you and is trying to harm you,

you may do this practice. The Kuan Yin Bodhisattva will definitely protect you

and make the malevolent person go away. I also think that if you are ill now, by

doing this practice often, the Bodhisattva will also take care of you and help you to

get better soon.

I had not expected that, during this evening's Great Compassion Repentance

Ceremony, the Kuan Yin Bodhisattva would appear to transmit such a wonderful

protection practice. He described the visualization very clearly to me, including all

the colors. The shrine [mandala] he showed to me was very beautiful, especially

the Buddhist banners, which were waving in the wind. Very nice! When you go

home, you may make painting based on my description. Oh yes, there is also a

precious canopy above! The Bodhisattva also mentioned a precious canopy which

I forgot to tell you. [Audience laughter]

You have to transfer your skin into a precious canopy. I forgot to mention this

most important point. Transfer your skin into a precious canopy. Then from all

the skin pores, golden beams of light are in the all around the shrine. Your skin

becomes a precious canopy and all of the skin pores radiate light. This is how the

precious canopy of the shrine is derived. I forgot to mention this most important

part.

This is a method to transform one's own body into the Kuan Yin Body Shrine,

for the purpose of averting disasters. In this practice, one transforms one's body,

including the chakras in one's body, into the shrine. This also includes making an

offering out of one's own body. In this visualization, there is the presence of both


Kuan Yin and oneself, with Kuan Yin guarding and protecting one. What a

wonderful practice! I hope this practice can benefit all of you and enable you to

avert all kinds of disasters. Thank you.

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Kuan Yin Body Shrine for Visualization drawn by Jia Lu and GMK Bonnycastle


The Kuan Yin (Avalokitesvara) Body

Shrine Protection Practice That Averts Disasters A True Buddha School Practice Text

1. Visualize the hair on your head gathering together to transform into a

Thousand Arms Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin Bodhisattva sitting atop the

center of the shrine.

2. Transform your skin into a precious canopy. Then from all the skin pores,

golden beams of light are emitted all around the shrine.

3. Visualize your eyes turning into strands of pearls or diamonds which are

distributed in circles around the shrine.

4. Visualize your nose transforming into gemstones which are mounted as a

second layer on the shrine, right below the pearls.

5. Visualize your teeth transforming into the necklaces worn by Kuan Yin

Bodhisattva, and these are hung below the gems as a third layer.

6. Visualize your ears transforming into Buddhist banners with “Om Mani

Padme Hum” (Sanskrit) written on. These banners are hung all around the

shrine. One may also chant the Heart Mantra of the Thousand Arms

Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin which is,

“Namo sam-man-do moo-toh nam wah-ee-la da-mo-she.”

7. Next, winds are generated from the soles of your feet. The soles of your

feet transform into a blue colored Wheel of Wind.

8. Your root chakra transforms into a red Wheel of Fire, right above the

Wheel of Wind.

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9. The third bottom layer is a green Wheel of Water which forms from your

navel chakra.

10. The fourth bottom layer is a yellow Wheel of Earth which is transformed

from your heart chakra.

11. Next transform your spinal column into Mount Meru. Mount Meru is a

pointed mountain which is brown in color.

12. Then, atop the brown, pointed Mount Meru you yourself sit, about the size

of a grain of rice. On top of you, at the uppermost end, is the Thousand

Arms Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin Bodhisattva.

13. Recite the Heart Mantra of the Thousand Arms Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin:

“Namo sam- man-do moo-toh-nam wah-ee-la da-mo-she,”

and enter into deep meditation.

14. Entering Samadhi (Deep Meditation).


How to Take Refuge in Living Buddha Lian-sheng

There are two ways of taking refuge in Living Buddha Lian-sheng:

1. In writing

At 7:00 a.m. (your local time) of either the first or fifteenth of a lunar month, face the

direction of the rising sun. With palms joined, reverently recite the Fourfold refuge Mantra

three times: “Namo Guru bei, Namo Buddha ye, Namo Dharma ye, Namo Sangha ye” and

prostrate three times.

Send a letter to the True Buddha Foundation to request a refuge empowerment. State

your name, address, age, and enclose a voluntary offering. Upon receiving your letter, the

True Buddha Foundation will send a certificate, a picture of Living Buddha Lian-sheng, and a

note stating the level of practice you should start with. The address of the True Buddha

Foundation is:

True Buddha Foundation

17102 NE 40th Ct.,

Redmond, WA 98052 USA

Tel: 425-885-7573

Fax: 425-883-2173

2. In person

You may obtain refuge empowerment personally from Grand Master Lu or a True

Buddha Master by visiting a True Buddha temple/local chapter or by attending a True Buddha

ceremony.

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