Manjushri Namasangiti
Manjushri Namasangiti
Manjushri Namasangiti
Bowing to the protector, the completely awakened, the blessed one, the Tathagata [Vajradhara] stood in front, his hands folded in homage, and spoke these words: "For my sake, my benefit, O Overlord, through compassion towards me, may I be an obtainer of the realization process of Illusion's Net. "For the sake of all beings sunk in unknowing, their minds confused in defilement, that they may obtain the highest fruit. "May the completely awakened, the blessed one, the teacher, the guide of the world, knowing the reality of the great vow, highest in knowing the faculties and dispositions, may he reveal "[the Litany of Names] of Manjushri, the gnostic entity, who is self-produced, embodied gnosis, the blessed one's gnostic body, vocal lord, the great coronal dome; "This excellent Litany of Names with depth of meaning and lofty meaning, with great meaning, unequalled and blessed, wholesome in beginning, middle, and end; "That which was spoken by previous buddhas will be spoken by the future ones, and that which the completely awakened in the present recite again and again; "[That Litany of Names] extolled in the Mayajalamaha Tantra by unlimited delighted Mahavajradharas, bearers of mantras, "Until deliverance I will preserve it with steadfast intention, since I am, O Protector, the esoteric bearer for all the completely awakened. "For the destruction of their every defilement and elimination of all their unknowing, I will reveal this [Litany] to
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beings, each according to his own disposition." 16 Having beseeched the Tathagata thus for instruction, Vajrapani, the esoteric leader, his body bent, his hands folded in homage, stood in the fore [of the assembly].
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The worldly and superworldly family, the grand world illuminating family, the foremost family, the Mahamudra, and the great family, the exalted coronal dome.
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"His great avarice is an exalted festival, subduing all avarice; bis great desire is the great delight, grand happiness and great pleasure. " O f great form and great body, with great color and grand physique, with exalted name he is very noble, having a grand expansive mandala. "Bearing the great sword of insight, with a great ankus for defilements, he is foremost, greatly famous, very renowned, with great light and exalted splendor. "Bearing the grand illusion, he is wise, accomplishing the object [of beings in] the grand illusion. Delighted with the pleasure of the grand illusion, he is a conjuror of grand illusions. "Highest in being a lord of great giving, foremost in exalted morality, firm through embracing great forbearance, he is zealous with great heroism. "Present in exalted meditation (dkyana) and concentration (samadhi), bearing the body of great insight, he is great strength, great means; he is aspiration and the gnostic ocean. "Unlimited in loving kindness, greatly compassionate and most intelligent, with great insight and grand intellect, he is great in means with profound performance. "Arrived at great strength and psychic power, very intense and very fast, employing great psychic power and bearing the name 'Great Lord,' his zeal is in great strength. "Splitter of the vast mountain of existence, being Mahavajradhara he is indestructible. Being very fierce and very terrible, he creates fear in the very ferocious.
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"Being highest with mahavidyas, he is the protector; being highest with mahamantras, he is the guide. Having mounted to the practice of the Great Vehicle, he is highest in the practice of the Great Vehicle.
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"At the head of hosts, a preceptor of hosts, a lord of hosts, and a commander of hosts with power, he is foremost through great sustaining power and with an excellent practice, not to be guided by others. "As the lord of speech, the commander of speech possessed of eloquence, he is the master of speech unending in fluency, and with true speech he speaks the truth, teaching the four truths. "Not turning back and not seeking rebirth, he is like a rhinoceros, a leader of self-enlightened; having been delivered by various kinds of deliverance, he is the unique cause of the great elements. "An arhat, a bhikshu with his impurities exhausted, he is separated from passion, his senses subdued. He has obtained ease and fearlessness, becoming cool and limpid. "Completed in wisdom and good conduct, he is well gone (sugata), the best councilor of the world. Without a sense of 'I' and 'mine,' he is established in the practice of the two truths. "Standing at the uttermost limit of samsara, he rests on the terrace, his duty done. Having rejected isolatory knowledge, he is the cleaving sword of insight. "With true Dharma, a king of Dharma, shining, he is supreme as luminary of the world. A lord of Dharma, a king of Dharma, he is the instructor in the path toward wellbeing. "His aim accomplished and thought accomplished, he has abandoned thought. Devoid of mentation, his sphere is indestructible, the dharmadhatu, supreme, imperishable. "Possessed of merit, with accumulated merit, he is knowledge
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and the great source of knowledge. Possessed of knowledge in knowing the real and unreal, he has accumulated the two accumulations. 58 "Eternal, a universal ruler, a yogin, he is meditation and to be reflected upon, the lord of the intelligent. He is to be personally realized, truly unshakable, primeval, bearing the triple body. "A buddha in his nature of five bodies, an overlord by his nature of five types of gnosis, wearing a diadem whose nature is five buddhas, having five eyes he maintains dissociation. " T h e progenitor of all buddhas, he is Buddha's son, supreme, the best. Arisen from existence in insight, he is sourceless, his source is the Dharma while he puts an end to existence. "His unique essence impenetrable, himself a vajra, immediately arisen he is the lord of the world; arisen from the sky and self-arisen, he is the exalted fire of insightful gnosis. "Vairochana, the great lumen, the light of gnosis, he is the illuminator; the lamp of the world, the torch of gnosis, with great splendor he is radiant light. "Vidyaraja, the lord of excellent mantras, he is mantraraja performing the great goal. As the exalted coronal dome, the marvelous coronal dome, he teaches in every sort of way, the lord of space. "Foremost, as he is the physical presence of all buddhas, with his eyes bringing happiness to the world; with manifold form he is the creator, a great sage to be worshipped and honored. "Bearing the three families, he is a possessor of mantras, bearing up mantras and the great vow; he is best in bearing
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"His body hairs bristling like vajras, a unique body with vajrahairs, the origin of his nails in the tips of vajras, he has skin which is impenetrable and in essence vajra. "Glorious in bearing a rosary of vajras and ornamented by ornaments of vajra, his is the great noise and the terrible laugh Ha Ha, and the six syllables with noise like a vajra. "Gentle-voiced (Manjughosha), with a great roar, he is great with the sound unique in the world. He is sonance as far as the end of the sphere of space and the best of those possessed of sound.
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with confidence he is the preceptor to the world. He is protector, preserver, trustworthy in the triple world, a refuge and the highest defender. 83 "His active experience (sambhoga) the extension of space, he is the ocean of the Omniscient's gnosis. He splits the shell around the egg of ignorance and tears the net of existence. "With the general defilements totally pacified, he has gone to the far shore of samsara's ocean. Wearing the diadem of the gnostic consecration, he has for his ornament the perfectly awakened. "Easing the distress of the three kinds of suffering and bringing the three to an end, he is endless, passed to the triple liberation; released from all veils, he has passed [to the state of] equality like space. "Beyond the filth of all defilements, he thoroughly comprehends the three times and timelessness; he is the great snake for all beings, the crown of those crowned with qualities. "Released from all residues he is well established in the track of space; bearing the great wish-fulfilling gem, he is the highest of all jewels, the overlord. "He is the wide wishing tree and the best of great good vases; an agent acting for the sake of beings, he desires their benefit, with affection towards beings. "Knowing the skillful and the destructive and aware of timing, he understands the occasion, and possessing his vow, is the overlord. Knowing the faculties of beings and the correct opportunity, he is skilled in the triple release. "Possessed of qualities, knowing qualities and knowing Dharma, he is auspicious, arisen from auspiciousness. T h e auspiciousness of all that is auspicious, he is fame and fortune, renown and goodness.
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"Being the great festival, the great respite, the grand happiness and the great pleasure, he is a considerate reception, hospitality, prosperity, real joy, glory and the lord of renown. "Possessed of excellence, the best benefactor, giving refuge he is the highest refuge. Best among the enemies of great fear, he destroys without exception all fear. "With a tuft of hair, with a crest of hair, an ascetic with braided hair and twisted locks, he has a shaven head and diadem. Having five faces and five hair knots, his flowered crown is of five knots of hair. "Holding on to the great vow of austerity, he wears the ascetic's grass girdle, his practice pure and highest in his austere vow. Having great penance and having gone to the fulfillment of asceticism, he has taken his ritual bath to be the foremost Gautama. "A divine brahmana, knower of brahman, he is Brahma having obtained brahmanirvana. He is release, liberation, his body true liberation; he is true release, peacefulness, and final blessedness. "He is nirvana, cessation, peace, well-being, deliverance, and termination. Ending pleasure and pain, he is the utter conclusion, renunciation with residues destroyed. "Unconquered, incomparable, indistinct, invisible, and spotless, he is partless, with total access, all-pervading, yet subtle, a seed without impurities. "Without dirt, dustless, stainless, with faults expelled, and free from disease, he is wide awake, himself awakened, omniscient, universally knowing, and supreme. "Gone beyond the conditionality of consciousness, he is
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gnosis, bearing the form of nonduality. Devoid of mentation, spontaneous, he performs the duty of the buddhas of the three times. 100 Without beginning or end, he is Buddha, Adibuddha without causal connection. Stainless with his unique eye of gnosis, he is embodied gnosis, the Tathagata. "Lord of speech, the great expounder, the king of speakers, the chief of speakers, he is supreme in being the most excellent among those speaking, the invincible lion of elucidators. "Seen in all directions, elation itself, with a garland of splendor, handsome, the beloved of Shri, radiant, illuminating, he is light, with the splendor of the illuminator. "Being the best of great physicians, he is superb, and as a surgeon, the finest. As the tree of every sort of medicine, he is the great enemy of the sickness of defilement. "In being the tilaka mark of the triple world, he is pleasing and glorious, with a mystic circle of the lunar mansions. Extending as far as the sky in the ten directions, he raises the banner of the Dharma. "Being the unique vast umbrella for the world, his is the mystic circle of loving kindness and compassion. As Padmanarteshvara he is glorious, variegated like a jewel, the great overlord. "Being an exalted king among all buddhas, he bears the body of all buddhas; as the mahayoga of all buddhas, he is the unique teaching of all buddhas. "Glorious with the consecration of Vajraratna, he is lord among all jewel monarchs. Being lord over all Lokeshvaras, he is the monarch over all Vajradharas.
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"As the great mind of all buddhas, he is present in the mind of all buddhas. Having the exalted body of all buddhas, he is the Sarasvati of all buddhas. " T h e vajra-like sun, the great light, with the stainless brilliance of the vajra-like moon, and having the great desire of renunciation and so forth, his is the blazing light in every sort of color. "Maintaining the cross-legged position of the completely awakened, he preserves the Dharma discussed by the buddhas. Arisen from the lotus of the Buddha, he is glorious, wearing the treasury of the Omniscient's gnosis. "Bearing every sort of illusion, he is king, and as the holder of the incantations of the buddhas, he is exalted. Vajratikshna with a great sword, he is pure with the highest syllable. "Whose great weapon is the Vajradharma of the Great Vehicle which cuts off suffering, he conquers the victors and, deep as a vajra, with vajra-like intellect, knows objects just as they are. "Fulfilling all the perfections, he wears as ornaments all the levels; as the egolessness of the pure Dharma, his light in his heart is from the moon of perfect gnosis. "With the great perseverance of the Mayajala, becoming the monarch of all tantras, he is supreme. Maintaining every cross-legged position, he bears every gnostic body. "As Samantabhadra the very intelligent, being Kshitigarbha supporting the world, as the great womb of all buddhas, he bears the wheel of every sort of transformation. "Foremost as the proper nature of all existents, he maintains the proper nature of all existents. By nature unarisen, yet with every sort of referent, he bears the proper nature of all dharmas.
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"Having great insight in one instant, he maintains the internal comprehension of all dharmas. W i t h his realization toward all dharmas, and as the sage at the end of actuality, he is very sharp. "Motionless, himself very clear, he bears the enlightenment of the perfect completely awakened, face to face with all buddhas, having fire-tongues of gnosis and radiant light.
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"White like a pure, radiant cloud and shining like the beams of the autumn moon, with the beauty of the mystic circle of the newly risen sun, the light from his nails is intensely red. "His fine fair locks with points of sapphire and bearing in his hair crest a great sapphire, glorious with the luster of great jewels, his ornaments are transformations of the Buddha. "Shaking hundreds of world spheres, he strides wide with the 'feet of psychic power.' Bearing the great recollection, he is reality, the king over the concentration of the four recollections. "Fragrant from the blossoms of the limbs of enlightenment, being the ocean of qualities of the Tathagata, in knowing the practice of the eight-limbed path, he knows the path of the perfect completely awakened. "Greatly adhering to all beings, he adheres to nothing, like the sky; arisen from the mind of all beings, he has the speed of the minds of all beings. "Knowing the value of the faculties of all beings, he captures the hearts of all beings; knowing the reality of the meaning in the five skandhas, he is the pure bearer of the five skandhas. "Established at the limit of all modes of deliverance, he is skilled in all modes of deliverance; established on the path of all modes of deliverance, he is the teacher of all modes of deliverance. "Rooting out existence in its twelve limbs, he is the pure bearer of twelve aspects, with the aspect of the practice of the four truths, he maintains the realization of the eight knowledges. "His referent truth in twelve aspects, knowing the sixteen aspects of reality, he is totally enlightened to the twenty
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aspects, awake, omniscient and supreme. 134 "Sending forth crores of emanating bodies of uncountable buddbas, bis complete realization is in every moment, knowing tbe objects of every instant of mind. "Considering tbe purpose of tbe world by tbe means of practicing tbe various vehicles, wbile delivered by tbe triple vehicle, he is established in the fruit of tbe unique vehicle. "Himself purified from defiled elements, be subdues tbe elements of karma; crossed over the ocean of tbe floods, he has departed the wilderness of tbe adhesions. "Along with the perfuming elements be casts off the defilements, tbe associate defilements, and the general defilements. Being compassion and insight and means, he acts successfully for tbe sake of the world. "His purpose tbe casting off of all conceptions, toward the objects of consciousness be maintains suppression. His referent the mind of all beings, be is present in the minds of all beings. "Established within tbe minds of all beings, be enters into equality with their minds; satisfying the minds of all beings, be is the pleasure of all beings' minds. "Being tbe final statement, free from bewilderment, be is exempt from all error; having three referents, his mind is free of doubt, and having all objects, bis nature is of three qualities. "His referents tbe five skandhas and tbe three times, be considers every instant; obtaining total awakening in one instant, be is the bearer of tbe proper nature of all buddbas. "Having a bodiless body, tbe foremost of bodies, be sends
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forth crores of bodies; displaying forms without exception, he is Ratnaketu, the great gem. 143 "To be realized by all buddhas, as the enlightenment of the Buddha, he is supreme; devoid of syllables, his source is in mantra; he is the triad of the great mantra families. " T h e progenitor of the significance of all mantras, he is the great bindu, devoid of syllables; with five syllables and greatly void, he is voidness in the bindu, with one hundred syllables. "Having all aspects, having no aspects, he bears four bindus; partless, beyond enumeration, he sustains the limit at the level of the fourth meditation. "Directly knowing all the branches of meditation, knowing the lineages and families of concentration, with a body of concentration, the foremost of bodies, he is the king of all sambhogakayas. "With an emanating body, the foremost of bodies, bearing the lineage of the Buddha's emanations, he emanates forth in every one of the ten directions, acting for the needs of the world just as they are. " T h e deity beyond gods, the leader of gods, the leader of heavenly beings, he is the lord of demigods, leader of immortals, the guide of heavenly beings, a churner and the lord of churners. "Crossed over the wilderness of existence, he is unique, the teacher, the guide of the world; celebrated, and being the donor of Dharma to the world in its ten directions, he is great. "Dressed in the mail of loving kindness, equipped with the armor of compassion, [armed] with [a volume of] Prajna [Paramita], a sword, a bow and an arrow, he is victorious in
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the battle against defilements and unknowing. 151 "Having Mara as an enemy, he conquers Mara, a hero putting an end to the terror of the four maras; the conqueror of the army of all maras, he is the completely awakened, the leader of the world. "Praiseworthy, honorable, laudable, continually worthy of respect, he is the best of those to be worshipped, venerable, to be given homage, the supreme guide. "His gait being one step through the triple world, his course as far as the end of space, triple-scienced, learned in scripture and pure, his are the six sublime perceptions and the six recollections. "A bodhisattva, a great being, beyond the world, with great spiritual power, completed in the perfection of insight, he has realized reality through insight. "Knowing himself and knowing others, being all for all, indeed he is the highest type of person; completely beyond all comparisons, he has to be known, the supreme monarch of gnosis. "Being the donor of the Dharma, he is best, the teacher of the meaning of the four mudras; he is the best of the venerable ones of the world who travel by the triple deliverance. "Glorious and purified through absolute truth, great with the fortune in the triple world, glorious in making all success, Manjushri is supreme among those possessed of glory.
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Reverence to you, whose womb is emptiness. Homage to you, the enlightenment of the Buddha. 159 "Reverence to you, the desire of the Buddha. Homage to you, the passion of the Buddha. Reverence to you, the joy of the Buddha. Homage to you, the delight of the Buddha. "Reverence to you, the Buddha's smile. Homage to you, the Buddha's laugh. Reverence to you, the Buddha's speech. Homage to you, the Buddha's internal reality. "Reverence to you, arisen from nonexistence. Homage to you, the arising of buddhas. Reverence to you, arisen from the sky. Homage to you, the arising of gnosis. "Reverence to you, Illusion's Net. Homage to you, the Buddha's dancer. Reverence to you, the all for all. Homage to you, the gnostic body.
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OM, O pure vajra whose proper nature is the non-existence of all dharmas, A A AM AH that is to say, employing the purity of Manjushri, the gnostic body of all tathagatas, A AH bear up, bear up the heart of all tathagatas - OM HUM HRIH. O Blessed One, O Lord of Speech who is embodied gnosis, with great speech, O embryo of the gnosis of
the dharmadhatu, being very pure and stainless like the spatial field of all dharmas AH."
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