"Vajra Array" and "Samsara Eight-wind Array"
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…During the time of the test, there will be seven holy gurus and ten witness masters rigorously monitoring the test onsite. Other than the Divine Announcement by Holy Divination (打卦神諭), the most challenging part is the Samsara Eight-wind Array, the authentic way to protect the Dharma. The candidate will first present their document, stating which item of which category specifically they choose to be tested. The candidate must genuinely understand the content of the item on which they will be tested. This document will be read and then burned in the test site. If the candidate forges a document for the test, e.g., if the candidate only knows some jargon but does not know anything about the content, they falsify the document for the test, then they will be engulfed in the cycle of birth and death of the Samsara Eight-wind Array. Not only can they not pass even Level 1, but the array’s power will also be instantaneously increased on the spot. The candidate will end up being extremely miserable!
That is the test for the holy and virtuous levels. A separate Vajra Array is set up to test the status of Arahats and Bodhisattvas. On the surface, the Vajra Array may look very peaceful, calm and splendid, as if it was in the gentle Springtime wind where everything is promising, but in reality, the entire space in the array is full of the power to tear apart the candidate’s four great elements and is extremely dangerous and harmful. It is 100 times scarier than the Samsara Eight-wind Array and is mainly used to validate the status of Arahats and Bodhisattvas.
…The Buddha mentioned that we Buddhists cannot play with Daoist array formations. We sincerely declare that the array formations used in our test are Buddhist array formations, which have nothing to do with Daoism or any other non-Buddhist religion. As mentioned earlier, these arrays are initiated with the Heart Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, the Agama Mantra, the Great Compassion Dharani (Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī), the Mahakala Mantra, the Kalachakra Mantra, and other holy Buddhist mantras. They do not contain a bit of non-Buddhist flavor. They are not from the fabled story Feng Shen Bang but rather tangibly realized Buddhist arrays.
Every Vajra Dharma in Buddhism has a formation array. The Agama Mantra is associated with the Agama Emptiness and Form Demon-Subduing Array*1 (楞嚴空色伏魔陣), the Great Compassion Dharani is related to the Great Compassion Array of Taking Demon Down to Hell*1 (大悲降拿地府陣). The Homa Holy Fire Offering Dharma and the Four Means—Extinguishing (calamities), Increasing (good fortune), Beseeching (joy), and Killing (demons)*1 (息誅懷增)—in Tibetan esoteric Buddhism, as well as the Water and Land Dharma Assembly in the exoteric Buddhism are the arrays to save living beings and subdue demons. It is just that their powers are too weak to be manifest in any tangible or real form on the spot. Additionally, many high monks and greatly virtuous ones of later generations did not learn the dharmas in their entirety and subsequently could not inherit the dharmas completely.
Buddhist arrays are deployed to help living beings, benefit living beings, save living beings, and eliminate demons and evil. Only true Arahats and Bodhisattvas who have certain powers can penetrate these arrays. In particular, the Vajra Array will never harm an Arahat or Bodhisattva, albeit extremely ferocious, unless that Arahat or Bodhisattva falsifies or inflates their level, in which case the array will punish them.
To be careful, we asked a holy and virtuous person at the Three-Star Sumita Wheel level to experience the array. No sooner had we gone into the gate of the array with him than we felt a force coming at us from nowhere that would disintegrate the four great elements in us. The force went right inside the body of every one of us. It was so strong that the holy and virtuous person could not stand it. With our assistance, he ran out of the array in a flurry. He kept shaking his head and said: “I cannot enter this array! It is too ferocious! The entire space in the array was filled with a great force. It is too wondrous! There was nothing when you looked at it. The force was not on the ground but in the space. It seemed to be dissolving me!”
He then reported the situation to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III severely criticized us and said: “What are you guys doing? Playing tricks?“ We explained to the Buddha that this array would never harm living beings. So, we went with the Buddha into the array. To our disbelief, just as H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III took the first step into the gate, all the force of the Vajra Array which had been initiated suddenly disappeared completely, including the disintegrating force that had already been applied to the ushering holy and virtuous ones who went in ahead of us. What baffled us was the Buddha had not come to break the array specifically. The Buddha told us that we must abstain from all evil deeds, do all good deeds, and not err on the law of causality or violate our precepts. The Buddha was saying that a rinpoche was now facing sickness, pain, and death because he had evil views and understanding, and as such, he could not change the karmic retributions he was getting. The Buddha was saying all these things when the force of the Vajra Array suddenly disappeared. We saw that the Buddha had just entered the array’s gate. That was very strange, it was unprecedented! Albeit extremely powerful, this array became a powerless and empty formation before the Buddha!
We were very shocked. So, we beseeched the Buddha to expound the Dharma and tell us why the force of the array, which had been initiated, suddenly disappeared the moment the Buddha went in. The Buddha said: “Don’t be mysterious! I never saw anything in there. Of course, I know I am a humbled cultivator; maybe I do not qualify to see it. It is fine if I cannot see it. I am not curious. I still say the same thing: What I want is cultivation.”
However, we must say our array formation is truly existent. Its ability to select the holy and virtuous ones or distinguish the true Arahats and Bodhisattvas from the fake ones is precise beyond compare. To achieve safe and accurate test results, we can only rely on a little bit of power from the array formation to examine the validity and level of the holy gurus. We know well that living beings are our family. We do not have a sliver of mindset to scare or harm them. We only have the conduct to help Buddhist disciples to guard themselves against being cheated by evil. It will naturally frighten the evil masters and the lying masters. They will be too scared to go into the test site, and Buddhist disciples can see their ugly true faces for not daring to take the test.
The Adamantine Seal in the Vajra Array is entirely out of the league of the fabled and inane Heaven-tumbling Seal, which is as trivial and tiny as a dirtball. From the surface, the Adamantine Seal is the fundamental seal of Ucchuṣma Vajra (穢跡金剛), a transformation of Shakyamuni Buddha, but on the seal, there are eight great vajra pestles. Therefore, this seal is also called the Invincible Vajra Seal, for it combines the powers of Supreme Peace and Joy White Vajra*1 (無上安樂白金剛), Kalachakra Vajra (時輪金剛), Vajra Kilaya (or Dorje Phurba, 普巴金剛), Yamantaka Vajra(大威德金剛), Maha Heruka Vajra (大赫魯嘎金剛), Aparājita Vajra (無能勝金剛), Heaven-Covering Vajra*1 (蓋天金剛), and Hayagrīva Vajra (馬頭金剛). It is invincible throughout the Dharmadhatu!
…Although the Samsara Eight-wind Array and the Vajra Array set up for the Holy Test are powerful beyond compare, we will also allow a door of escape for the candidate trapped in the array. The Eight-wind Array has eight levels, but we have decided only to set up the array at the first level. The Vajra Array for validating one’s reincarnated status from an Arahat or a Bodhisattva is powerful without parallel, where the Adamantine Seal in the array will fly in the air and then press down on a candidate who falsifies the test document. It will also suddenly emit the power to disintegrate the four great elements of the candidate’s body. An evil demon will be pressed into body powders right there and then. However, an Arahat or Bodhisattva with authentic status and truthfully filled out the test document will feel that moving Mt. Taishan is as easy as pushing a plate.
For safety, we will only set up one-thousandth of the total power in the Vajra Array to show its extremely ferocious holy power and validate the candidate’s truthfulness with it. The Adamantine Seal in the Vajra Array is not an empty fabled story like the Heaven-tumbling Seal in Feng Shen Bang. It is tangible, accurate, and without falsity. If a holy and virtuous person of Blue Button Level 3 wants to explore if they have already belonged to the fruit level of the Gold Button Arahat, they can also take the test in the array and experience the one-thousandth Vajra Array power.
These two Buddhist arrays can achieve the goal of selecting holy gurus accurately and letting candidates experience the actual form of the powerful faithful Buddha Dharma in person. It also enables candidates to receive lessons safely to assist their advancement. Those individuals who regard themselves pompously or who deludedly fake to be holy will correct their wrongs to become right. They can completely shed the evil speech and conduct of pretending to be a Bodhisattva. It allows them to voluntarily correct themselves from within their mind and vow to bring people benefit and joy. Even if they cannot obligatorily help living beings without receiving any offerings as H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III does, they will no longer cheat people on purpose. That is the only way for them to shoulder the Buddhist undertakings based on great compassion to benefit living beings.
…One can also write, “I am an Arahat” or “I am a Bodhisattva,” but that is quite risky. To be tested as a true reincarnation of an Arahat or a Bodhisattva, one must first penetrate the Vajra Array. After that, penetrating the Eight-wind Array would be as easy as pie.
To be tested for the regular holy and virtuous status, if one has submitted an untruthful test document, one will be engulfed in the Samsara Eight-wind Array to reveal one’s true form as an ordinary person. More seriously, the candidate taking the test in the Vajra Array must enter the array in person. Suppose the candidate going into the array does not have the actual status of an Arahat or a Bodhisattva but pretends to be one. In that case, the Adamantine Seal will come pressing down on the candidate, who will then have their true colors revealed, be disgraced and end up in misery! On the other hand, a true Arahat or Bodhisattva can penetrate the array easily and advance into the Holy Guru level of 1-Star Sun-Moon Wheel or Gold Button Level 1. A reincarnated Arahat or Bodhisattva can also bypass the Vajra Array and have their status validated through the holy determination by Vajra Faman Initiation.
…Translator’s Note:
*1 The English name of the term needs further confirmation
*2 Feng Shen Bang: It is a Chinese novel about ancient wars among humans, celestial beings, and ghosts
(Eric C. Huang translated this announcement into English. It was last revised on 2024-10-07.)
…Some people are concerned about the Vajra Array. They asked: “Does the Vajra Array manifest its power similar to a formation that is set up with mechanisms like thunders, tumbling logs and rocks, swords, spears, arrows, flowing earth and sand, darting needles and bullets, poisonous gas, corrosive liquid, explosives, deluges, engulfing flames, traps and so on? We want to tell Buddhist cultivators who plan to take the test that we are not using artificial mechanisms, hidden weapons, or non-Buddhist theurgy. What we use is the authentic Dharma formation in Buddhism. It is the mind-seal lineage Wangzha Shangzun received from Manjushri Bodhisattva and Guru Padmasambhava. The Yidam of the Eight-wind Array is Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī Tathagata (孔雀明王如來), while the Yidam of the Vajra Array is the Nirmanakaya of Shakyamuni Buddha. The ferocious power of either the Eight-wind Array or the Vajra Array is beyond compare, but they are all true Tathagata Dharmas. They come from the invisible space. We will not use the mischievous world dharma of terror, killing and harm on living beings because that is the behavior of evil people and demons.
Take the Vajra Array, for example. We check it very strictly. We will only set up 2/1000 of its innate power. As soon as the candidate burns their test document at the gate of the array, the power of the array starts. If you stand at the entrance of the array, what you see and feel is natural and as usual, but if you take one step forward into the gate, you will feel an overpowering force to decompose your four great elements immediately in the invisible space. Or, you can stand outside the gate, and everything feels normal. But as soon as you extend your hand into the entrance, you will likewise feel the invasion by the strong power that is decomposing the four great elements of you immediately. The array is set up on flat land, and no wall or gate can be seen. There is no visible boundary. It is just a peaceful parcel of flat land.
The Vajra Array is held in the form of either the large or the small array. The large one takes an area as big as a few acres. In the center is a crystal platform on which a Vajra Seal (金剛印) is placed. Should there be an evil man or an impostor who feigns as an Arahat or Bodhisattva, this seal will fly in the air and emit the transcendental and ferocious power of the Four Great Elements—Earth, Water, Fire and Wind. It will chase the flesh body of the person closely and unrelentingly until it overwhelms and suppresses the person. At that time, only the master presiding over the mandala could remove the power of the Array.
We vow to the Buddhas in the ten directions that we will not have the slightest mentality or the conduct of harming living beings. We will not set up even 2% of the array’s power, which will be enough to harm living beings. Wangzha Shangzun especially guaranteed to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III that He would not lose Bodhicitta or have a bit of a vicious mind. The test he presides over is for living beings to distinguish between the true and the false masters or between the correct and the evil gurus. It is intended to serve living beings by checking the candidates. He asked the beneficent Buddha Master to rest assured. He knows He cannot bear the responsibility of causality and, therefore, dares not violate the law of cause-and-effect a bit.
Taken from: Announcement 20150107 (June 24, 2015)
…After reading the brief description of the Vajra Array in Public Announcement 20150107, some people argued that it is not a mundane Dharma. Although they understand the Vajra Array clearly, they are worried that perhaps the Eight-wind Array, on the other hand, is an ordinary trap. Therefore, we will discuss the Birth and Death Cycling Samsara Eight-wind Array next.
If it was a mundane and artificial trap, how could it make such a fair and definitive determination on the level of accomplishment? If that were the case, would the candidates be convinced? The Eight-wind Array is an entirely different Dharma and formation than the Vajra Array. Its formidable powers are only second to the Vajra Array. It, too, is by no means a mundane or artificial trap. It generates a corresponding destruction force opposite the candidate’s eight emotions—greed, hatred, ignorance, love, joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. It is purely an authentic Dharma of Buddhism where Mahāmāyūrī Vidyārājñī (the Peacock Bright King) is the Yidam. It gives the final determination on the disciple after the disciple has completed the exam of the specific testing subject in the teaching of Tripitaka, the keeping of their cultivation, the correctness of their knowledge and views, or their dharma power and realization abilities. This final part is the Holy Test is definitive and without error because the Yidam and Dharmapalas decide the result, which humans cannot influence!
The Eight-wind Array is held in either the Large or the Small Array. The Large Array is about 5 acres. In the center is the gate to being alive and accomplished (成就生門), which is almost half an acre and is green. The name of the area is called the Auspicious Zone of Bliss and Joy (福樂吉界), and the outside area surrounding it is the Death and Rebirth Samsara Zone (生死輪迴界), which is about four and a half acres and is black. Connected to the gate of the array is a broad passage about 20 meters long. It goes straight to the Auspicious Zone of Bliss and Joy from the gate. The candidate first practices walking into the Auspicious Zone of Bliss and Joy a few times. After becoming familiar with the process, they burn their test document by themselves and then walk to the Auspicious Zone of Bliss and Joy. If the candidate is qualified for the level they are tested, they can step into the Auspicious Zone of Bliss and Joy smoothly. If they are not eligible, they cannot walk into the Auspicious Zone. They see the zone before them clearly but cannot walk in, no matter how they try. The more they try to walk towards it, the farther away they will become until they are engulfed in the Samsara Eight-wind Array and entangled in the Samsara Black Zone without any way to escape. Could a mundane, artificial trap have that kind of power? The candidate trapped in the Samsara Zone can only be rescued back to life by the Holy Gurus at the end.
The overall power of the Large Array is 8 out of 8. But because it is too strong for the candidates to take, we have only set up 3/8 of power. The power of the Small Array is only set to 1/8. It has been proven with an actual survey that the Small Array could not only accurately determine if someone is qualified for the level they are tested at with the result seen but also that the candidate would not be harmed a bit. Seventeen witnesses were onsite, including seven holy gurus and ten witnesses proctoring the test. Anyone who has entered the Auspicious Zone of Bliss and Joy can validate the test result. Initially, the candidate drew the Divine Divination in an enclosed covered bowl. Neither the candidate themself nor the proctoring masters knew what the outcome of the Divination was inside the bowl. The candidate then opened the enclosed bowl before the seven holy gurus and the ten witness masters to validate the result of Divine Divination. Suppose the result matches the level the candidate achieved in the Eight-wind Array. In that case, the candidate will be conferred with a holiness certificate of their corresponding class that is endorsed with the vows made by the proctor masters.
…people who have passed the test for the same level on the same item or the practice of the same Dharma can have totally different levels of achievement, and the difference can be huge.
If you want to prove you are a holy being who descended to this world or an incarnated Arahat or Bodhisattva, then you must pass the Vajra Array Test. Otherwise, your status as an Arahat or Bodhisattva cannot be certain. Of course, your actual status can also be ascertained by way of the Holy Determination by Vajra Faman (金剛法曼擇決) or the Dharma of Knowing in Advance and Foretelling the Future (先知預言). If you want to take the Vajra Array Test, we suggest that you first take the test of the Eight-wind Array and have a definitive result before you take the Vajra Array Test. It will only do you good because you have nothing to lose. In that case, if you fail the Vajra Array Test, you can keep the level you have definitively attained through the Eight-wind Array.
Those who want to take the Vajra Array Test directly without taking the test on the single items of virtue must have reasonable confidence and be sure that you are a reincarnated Arahat or Bodhisattva. If you waive to be tested on the items of virtue from the four major categories and directly take the Vajra Array Test, you will not even have Blue Button Level 1 if you fail it. It is because you have waived the definitiveness from being tested on the items of virtue from the four major categories and the Eight-wind Array. No make-up test will be held retroactively for you.
Pay special attention. There are two ways to take the Vajra Array Test. One is to follow the typical test sequence, and the other is to take the test directly. A candidate who wants to take the Vajra Array Test must apply to do it at registration. Someone who plans to take the Vajra Array Test through the typical sequence can call it off if they do not want to take it anymore at the test time, but those who apply to take it directly cannot cancel it. You must apply to take the Vajra Array Test at registration to be arranged to take the test. However, those who have yet to take the Vajra Array Test can still apply now.
There are three ways to register for the test. You can choose either one at registration by declaring the following:
- “I am a Gold Button Level 1 holy guru or a reincarnation of an Arahat or Bodhisattva. I waive the test on the single item or items of virtue from the four major categories and apply to take the Vajra Array Test to validate my status directly,”
- “I apply to be tested on a single item or items of virtue first. I want to take the Vajra Array Test after I have passed the test of Eight-wind Array for Blue Button Level 3”, or
- “I apply to be tested on a single item or items of virtue from the four major categories.”
People at Blue Button Level 2 are not eligible for the Vajra Array Test. Although a candidate may be only one step away from Blue Button Level 3, he or she is at least 101 steps away from Gold Button Level 1 and, therefore, is not eligible for the Vajra Array Test.
The Vajra Array Test is set up primarily for Gold Button levels holy gurus such as Arahats or Bodhisattvas. We suggest that you take the test for Blue Button Level 3 first as a backup before you take the Vajra Array Test. If you fail the Vajra Array Test, you will still have obtained the certificate and the robe for Blue Button Level 3.
Once again, we call your attention. Other than the holiness level one attains in the test through the Vajra Array when taking the test based on virtuous quality, if a person gets a Blue Button level based on just one subject of virtue, you must pay attention and examine which category and item of virtue it is. The reason is that, for different areas of virtue, people’s actual achievements in the test can be different accordingly. In other words, two people who attain the same levels can have different realization powers and virtuous capabilities. On the other hand, two people with similar realization powers may get different levels in the test.
As for attaining Gold Button Level 1 from the test, one can choose either of two paths. The first is taking the Holy Test based on one subject area, and the second is on the virtuous quality. If one takes the test based on the virtuous quality, one must go through the Vajra Array, in which one’s test result is firm and final. In that case, one must write a document and clearly state whether one’s fundamental nature is Gold Button Level 1, an Arahat, or a Bodhisattva. On the other hand, the test result based on an item of virtue is firm and final in the Eight-wind Array, in which case the candidate does not write down what level their fundamental quality is. One only needs to write which category and item of virtue they choose to be tested on before coming to take the test. Suppose a candidate taking the Holy Test on a particular category and subject of virtue can attain Blue Button Level 3. In that case, they can decide on the spot to stop the test for Gold Button Level 1 through the Eight-wind Array. Instead, they can take it through the Vajra Array. One must state their desire to do so when registering for the test. For those who have not said it, they can do it now.
Taken from: Announcement No. 20150111 (August 27, 2015)
If a candidate has passed Blue Button Level 3 in the final Holy Test, then that person is eligible for the Gold Button Level 1 test. However, note that there are two ways to take the test for Gold Button. The first is to continue the test in the Samsara Eight-Wind Array for Gold Button Level 1, and the second is to stop the Eight-Wind Array but separately go to the Vajra Array to take the Gold Button Level 1 test. However, anyone starting the test with Vajra Array must note it when registering. If someone chooses to continue the test for Gold Button Level 1 through the Eight-wind Array but cannot pass it, their Blue Button Level 3 status will be retained as usual, and they will be given the certificate and the robe. However, if a person has already passed Gold Button Level 1 through the Eight-wind Array earlier and now takes the test for Gold Button Level 1 again through the Vajra Array but fails it in the Vajra Array, then their status of Gold Button Level 1 attained earlier in the Eight-wind Array does not exist anymore. It means that the person’s Gold Button Level 1 status is in the initial or generation stage and cannot bear the pressure from the Vajra Array. Such a person who has attained Gold Button Level 1 through the Eight-wind Array earlier, without regard to their abilities, trying the test again through the Vajra Array, has committed the black karma of slighting the Yidam of the Eight-wind Array, which the Vajras do not approve! In this case, the candidate will have to wait till the second year before having another opportunity to test the test through either the Eight-wind Array or the Vajra Array.
Taken from: Announcement 20150112 (August 30, 2015)
Announcement 20160104
Some people asked: Would the guru presiding over the test intentionally give some people who only pass the test for lower levels the robe and certification of a higher level? Can the attire truly ascertain someone’s level for 100%? This kind of inquiry is due to the lack of understanding of the test rules and the live situation at the test site. You should know that the Buddha Dharma that the headquarters’ holy and virtuous gurus have is different from those who have yet to receive authentic transmissions and could only speak empty theories and unrealizable dharma. It is the Buddha Dharma transmitted from Shakyamuni Buddha and can manifest itself in a holy state in which its form is accurate and tangible.
When going into the Array, everyone taking the test must chant authentic Buddhist sutras such as the Diamond Sutra, the Shurangama Mantra, the Great Compassion Dharani, the Mahakala Mantra, and so on. True Dharmas in Buddhism involves thoroughly applying the three karmas—mind, body, and words. Take the Diamond Sutra, for example; besides chanting the sutra text by mouth, visualizing the meaning in mind, a hand mudra such as the Mudra of Buddha Expounding Dharma or the Mudra of Ven. Subhuti must also be used as a compliment. Otherwise, the divine prowess of the Diamond Sutra is not perfect, and no actual, tangible form of holy state can be revealed.
The seven holy beings and the ten gurus (who proctor the test) must also chant with the person taking the test and apply the mudra. The Holy Test has no loophole, especially when there are the seven holy beings and the ten gurus present, who have all made solemn vows to guarantee the level obtained as a result of the Holy Test by every test candidate is correct. Should there be any falsehood, even if just one or two people are falsifying the outcome, would it be possible that all seventeen onsite proctors who are holy beings or great virtuous gurus falsify the result? Would they all dare to make solemn vows and write down their vows and endorsements of the outcome on the certification of the level obtained by the person taking the test? Not to mention that onsite the holy test, besides the seventeen witnesses, many other people are also taking the test. The test site rules say the first person must have finished their examination before the second person can take the test. All those who have not yet received the test and those who have completed the test stay and watch on the side. Every person taking the test can see in person and onsite what everyone else’s actual condition is in the test and their level. Think about it. Who would want to get a low level from the test? Everyone wants to get a high level.
The test candidates are in the same holy test array, and the Safety and Auspice Region (平安吉界) is right in front of them. The green Auspice Region is extensive, but only if you can enter it will you pass the test level. If you cannot get in, you will fail the level. When the test candidates practiced it before the formal holy test, everyone could walk in and out of it at will. However, once the announcement was made that the test was formally starting, some candidates couldn’t go in any longer. There was not a single trap or preventative mechanism in the entire Array. Still, if you do not have that one extra bit of true Buddha Dharma capability, it is impossible to go into the Auspice Region for just one single time!
Besides, the level every test candidate got from the holy test is 100% identical to the divination they had drawn in private by themselves. Therefore, the candidates who have taken the test are all convinced entirely of the levels they obtained. Some could only see others getting Level 3 but could not get even Level 1 themselves under the watch of everyone. It is imaginable how hard they must have felt.
But if one’s dharma capability is short, one can never enter that flat, prominent green-colored Auspice Region in the center. Even though you are moving your feet to go to the green zone in the front, the more you walk forward, the more the feet move backward naturally until you finally fall on the ground. Once a candidate could not enter the Auspice Region, they would definitely be pushed into the Samsara Eight-Wind Array (輪迴八風陣) and fall on the ground in the large Array. That candidate would lose face in public. They would have to be rescued from the Array, taken by hands and feet, by the four great Dharma guardians. Which master would want to embarrass themselves with such a miserable sight publicly?
No matter how a pompous master brags about themselves, they would not get by when they come to the test array. They can only pass it with actual and substantial dharma powers. The buttons to be worn on the robes and the certificates, which this Headquarters issues, are guaranteed by the Holy Test and the seventeen proctoring gurus who have made solemn vows on site of the Holy Test. They are nothing but genuine and authentic! Therefore, Buddhist cultivators and disciples must check the attire bearing the buttons and the master’s certificate, lest mistaking an evil teacher or a cheater for a good guru. We reiterate that even the Great Holy and Virtuous Wangzha Shangzun, who presides over the mandala of the Holy Test, Dharma King Gar Tongstan, or Kaichu Ruzun, cannot influence the candidates’ test results and levels.
Two couplets and a horizontal banner are hung before the holy test array. They can very well describe the situation. The horizontal banner says: “The result from true Dharma matches what is revealed in the holy divination; the rules are abided by to verify the result where no favor is considered; the Dharma guarding deities for the Holy Test are responsible for their own causality, while the fundamental guru presiding over the mandala is not responsible for the causality.” The long couplet says: “What is true cannot be made false, in which case moving Mt. Taishan is as easy as moving a plate;” and “What is false cannot be made true, and getting a test result higher than what you are is harder than climbing the sky.” The short couplet says: “Your level revealed is what your level is exactly, so do not think your level would be any higher,” and “Your weight shown will be whatever you weigh, so there is no way you can add weight.” The picture of the gate of the Holy Test array is shown below.
This announcement is now made.
United International World Buddhism Association Headquarters
April 15, 2016
Picture: This Dharma master was getting ready to go into the gate to take the holy test. Suddenly, a strong and powerful whirlwind broke out from inside the array; it made the Dharma master stumble and sucked the Dharma master into the array.
(Eric Huang translated this announcement into English. Last edited on 2024-08-30.)
This is the complete Announcement 20160104
For those who plan to register for the Vajra Array Holy Test, we will only accept your registration if you report your dharma power and holy capability as a reincarnated Arahat or Bodhisattva or if you have already passed the test for Blue Button Level 3 as a Runde. Other than these, we do not accept registration for the test on any other single subject because the Vajra Array is only set up for testing real holy beings based on the depth of their sacred capability and the level of their dharma powers.
…In seeing this, and to help Buddhist cultivators find true good masters, this Headquarters has carried out the written test and the holy test that are 100% precise.
Namo Dorje Chang Buddha III states, “A master must take the test on Sutra, Vinaya, and Sastra.” Therefore, this Headquarters set up a one-hundred-problem written exam for Sutra, Vinaya, and Sastra. On the other hand, only Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the space can measure definitively how great a master’s accomplishment is and determine whether the master is evil. The Holy Test is, therefore, set up and presided over by Wangzha Shangzun, assisted by Mozhi Jiaozun, Dharma King Gar Tongstan, and Kaichu Ruzun. In the Holy Test, the seven masters and the ten holy and virtuous witnesses first practice a Dharma and then give the Manjushri Bodhisattva’s Holy Divination to the test candidate, who then draws the divination by themselves privately. The test candidate then enters the Eight-wind Array and shows the dharma power they have gained from their practice to penetrate the boundary to enter the Auspicious Region, i.e., the Safety Zone. The final result of the level they have achieved, the type and the number of buttons they have earned from defeating the array by their own might, is one hundred percent in agreement with the level they previously obtained in the divination they made by themselves.
Over 200 people have taken the holy test by now, and no one has had any discrepancy between the result from the array and the divination they made. Everyone got precisely the same level from the Holy Test as what the divination previously revealed. They have all been convinced wholeheartedly. Therefore, this Headquarters says that only Buddhas and Bodhisattvas can definitively confirm whether one is evil or correct, good or bad. You cannot rely on ordinary people’s gossip and bickering because they cannot accurately differentiate between true and false.
…The holy test mandates the Vajra Formation (or Vajra Array), only used to test a reincarnated holy being or one with holy capabilities. Fundamentally, regular people dare not to take that test. Some people entered the test site and saw the miserable conditions of those who went to take the test. They then argued that they lacked capability and asked to withdraw from the test on the spot.
However, the eight-wind formation (or eight-wind array) is different. One can request to take the test on a single item of one’s strong suit. It is like a champion of one sport cannot be a champion of many different types of sport. A swimming champion may not have the ability to be an archery champion, and an archery champion may not have the ability to be a weightlifting champion, etc. They are champions in their respective areas of expertise. The Eight-wind Formation of the holy test is such, too. It is not a test for everything.
Taken from: Announcement 20170102
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Editor’s Note: Post created on November 25, 2025