If you're trying to easternize the LBRP, I'd say why bother? Try this basic (but very powerful) Tantric Buddhist rite (or research an equivalent Hindu or Toaist rite depending on your preference.) One thing to bear in mind, the eastern traditions often attribute elements quite differently. You're not calling to the element of earth in the North, for example.
In Tantric Buddhism (Tibetan magick) these are the correspondences you might use:
Dhyani Buddha Element DIRECTION COLOR GUARDIAN KING (Celestial Kings) Vairochana space CENTER WHITE Akshobhya water EAST BLUE DHRTARASTRA (Lord of Order, spring) Ratnasambhava earth SOUTH YELLOW VIRUDHAKA (Lord of Power- Summer) Amitabha fire WEST RED VIRUPAKSA (Lord of Sight - divining, autumn) Amogasiddhi air NORTH GREEN VAISRAVANA (Lord of Magick)
INSTEAD of a pentacle and the LBRP, I suggest you use the JEWEL --
OM MANI PADME HUM.
The literal translation of this all-powerful mantra is irrelevant. The vibration of the mantra is said to contain all the wisdom of Shakyamuni Buddhi. (Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche wrote: "There is not a single aspect of the eight-four thousand sections of the Buddha's teachings which is not contained in Avalokiteshvara's six syllable mantra") It is at least the equivalent of calling on the hebrew name of God. I fell highly empowered using it. No other vibrations are needed.
I use a Tibetan bell (female) called the Ghanta (in left hand) and the all-powerful Vajra (lightning bolt weapon, male) in my right (Aliester Crowley adored the Vajra and many Thoth cards show vajra symbols). I often inscribe and visualize the OM MANI PADME HUM with the Vajra, then clear with the bell. The pattern is basically the four directions. OM corresponds to YOD in YHVH and is FIRE (West), MANI to HEH and is WATER (East), PADME to VAU and is AIR (North), and HUM is HEH and is EARTH (south). You draw and visualize from WEST (left) to EAST (right) to NORTH (top) to SOUTH (bottom), creating a cross (not a Catholic cross, which starts top, but LEFT to RIGHT, diagonally to the TOP, then straight to the BOTTOM (it's the equivalent in this tradition of a pentacle). I chant OM as I go LEFT, MANI as I go RIGHT, PADME as I go UP, HUM as I go down -- in each direction.
You've now got an "eastern" (albeit Tantric Buddhist) version of the western LBRP, and equally as powerful. But you do have to wrap your head around the elemental direction cahnge (remember, these correspondences source from the top of the Himilayas, rather than from jolly old England (or Celtic correspondences, where North is earth, etc).
Sorry, my correspondences mushed together... Try this (from my previous post):
Dhyani Buddha - Element - DIRECTION - COLOR - GUARDIAN KING (Celestial Kings)
Vairochana - space - CENTER - WHITE - (n/a) Akshobhya - water - EAST - BLUE - DHRTARASTRA (Lord of Order, spring) Ratnasambhava - earth - SOUTH - YELLOW - VIRUDHAKA (Lord of Power- Summer) Amitabha - fire - WEST - RED - VIRUPAKSA (Lord of Sight - divining, autumn) Amogasiddhi - air - NORTH - GREEN - VAISRAVANA (Lord of Magick)
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