Pacing the Celestial Net
Overview
Section titled “Overview”This canonical ID (72) currently groups 2 source layers with divergent titles. Milestone-1 migration preserves every layer below without inventing a single merged narrative. Status: needs-review.
Also attested under these titles
Section titled “Also attested under these titles”- Diamond Realm Maṇḍala
Research layers
Section titled “Research layers”Layer 1: Diamond Realm Maṇḍala
Section titled “Layer 1: Diamond Realm Maṇḍala”Source file:
01_Buddhism.md
Japanese: 金剛界曼荼羅 Kongōkai Mandara
Associated especially with the Vajraśekhara/Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha ritual world.
In Japanese Shingon the Diamond and Womb Realms form a paired cosmological system.
Reliability: A/B.
Layer 2: Pacing the Celestial Net
Section titled “Layer 2: Pacing the Celestial Net”Source file:
02_Daoism.md
Chinese: associated with bugang 步罡 and the Celestial Net/asterism (tiangang)
Type: astral journey, ritual movement
Shangqing and later liturgical traditions transform astronomical patterns into paths walked by the adept or priest. The footsteps make the ritual body coincide with celestial space.
Structural reconstruction
Section titled “Structural reconstruction”Purify; establish directions; visualize the stellar pattern; step through its nodes in the transmitted sequence; accompany steps with invocations/breaths/hand signs where the lineage requires; reach the center or terminal celestial station; perform the principal ritual act; retrace or close the stellar field.
Access: exact step-diagrams are lineage/text specific.
Reliability: B.