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Authorization Key for Future Entries

Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 01_Buddhism.md.

Layer 1: Authorization Key for Future Entries

Section titled “Layer 1: Authorization Key for Future Entries”

Source file: 01_Buddhism.md

Every future entry should use one of these labels:

  • OPEN-TEXT: explicitly taught in an openly available scripture/liturgy and no initiation requirement found.
  • OPEN-INSTITUTIONAL: taught publicly by a recognized temple/monastery.
  • TRANSMISSION-RECOMMENDED: textual practice is open, but oral pronunciation/instruction is traditionally expected.
  • EMPOWERMENT-REQUIRED: deity/self-generation or tantra practice requiring abhiṣeka/kanjō according to the lineage.
  • ORDINATION/OFFICIANT: normally performed by trained clergy.
  • HISTORICAL-RECONSTRUCTION: no secure living transmission located.
  • HAZARDOUS-HISTORICAL: preserve academically, but do not physically reproduce dangerous components.

This key prevents “how to learn it” from becoming a vague footnote and will be applied retrospectively to older entries as the encyclopaedia grows.


Next research pass: Mahāsāhasrapramardanī, Mahāsītavatī, Mahāmantrānusāriṇī, Jāṅgulī individual manuals, Ucchuṣma, Mahābala, Medicine Buddha ritual cycles, Akṣobhya purification, Kṣitigarbha death rites, Avalokiteśvara eleven-faced and thousand-armed rites, Hayagrīva, Vajrapāṇi, Fudō manuals, Aizen manuals, Vināyaka/Kangiten, Sarasvatī/Benzaiten, Dakiniten, Seven Medicine Buddhas, Big Dipper and Nine Planet rites, eclipse ritual, funerary mantra technologies, liberation-by-wearing/seeing/hearing, consecrated sand, tsa-tsa, relic pills, statue filling and eye-opening, prayer-wheel consecration, thread-cross rites, ransom effigies, treasure/life vases, protector exorcism, wrathful reversal, cham, drupchen and cemetery/charnel-ground practice.