佛吉祥德讚

I take refuge in the one whose Lion's Roar resounds

Bringing forth all wholesome deeds

In whom the nature of all things is known as it truly is

The Unsurpassed Wisdom that sees throughout all things

Goodly teaching sentient beings beyond all time

And speaking, too, of very many Dharma-gates

First he utterly shatters the egg of ignorance

Accordingly discerning all those dharmas

He clearly knows sentient beings, the one of Great Rectitude

Awakened to the subtle and wondrous, the one of all dharmas

In the principle of non-self he has fully understood

Goodly discerning that all karmas are self-nature

Clearly knowing all the divisions of the realms

Clearly knowing arising and ceasing, their nature from of old

In all the dharmas of suffering he discerns as they truly are

Goodly discerning the true reality of all self-natures

Goodly able to awaken without disturbance

The self-nature of the world he fully discerns

Shattering all evil views, his wisdom opening into light

Clearly knowing all causes and their effects

Clearly knowing the marks of the three realms and how to escape them

Therefore one must cultivate all the deeds hard to do

His body untiring, his clinging to marks dissolved

Even the smallest dharmas he does not abandon

With ultimate skillful means he goodly gathers and transforms

Proclaiming the Middle Way and all the Dharma-gates

Excellent indeed is Śākyamuni Buddha

I bow in reverence, take refuge, and make offering

Supreme is the speech of the one of perfect stillness

Supreme, most victorious, the Master of mine

Goodly gathering sentient beings into all their joys of mind

In all phenomenal marks he does not grasp at all

Endowed with the two kinds, fit for praise

Goodly able to accomplish the Four Means of Embracing

The Six Harmonies and reverence for the Dharma he goodly proclaims

The Six Constant Practices, fully accomplished in his doing

He establishes deep and far-reaching Right View

Attaining those Samādhis, goodly stilled and pure

Within that wholesome Dharma his mind never lets go

The Truth he realized as a Buddha, before, at the place of awakening

Clearly knowing deep and far the one of the right path

Opening up deep and far the bright and lucid wisdom

Therein no seeking, no lowly path

I bow my head to the Tathāgata, the one of realization

Gathering together the wise in what is clearly known

The subtle, fine, and far-reaching he wholly awakens and knows

He reveals the two kinds of the realm of Nirvāṇa

He fully realizes all the paths of Nirvāṇa

Sentient beings through the long night give rise to delusions

The Buddha by skillful means speaks, with no false dharma

Sentient beings drifting and floating in the mire of birth and death

The Buddha for their sake extends his hand, goodly delivering them across

Sentient beings according to their lot dwell in the evil realms

The Buddha for their sake by skillful means rescues them from peril

These sentient beings give rise to fear and dread

The Buddha for their sake points to the place of fearlessness

Of himself complete in the vast and great power of divine majesty

His body manifests all marks of beauty

Within, his honored and wholesome mind is full of light

Devoted to speaking the right Dharma beyond all compare

The Buddha does not, for the sake of subduing others

In all things prove unable, being other than the Buddha

He abides in all that is joyful

The Buddha is complete in all marks

His unsurpassed wondrous conduct, performed in truth

Like a lotus flower in bloom, wisdom pure and clean

The gathered store of pure conduct, exhausted without remainder

I bow my head to the one who has established pure conduct

Only aiding the world, the one of the Vedas

Not destroying any of it, he teaches the holy Dharma

Washing away all stains of transgression

He has obtained the foremost, supreme Dharma

Goodly able to accomplish the Dharma that strongly removes

Goodly able to point the way to the stilled and tranquil

The Teacher reveals and opens the goodly gate of joy

Through the wilderness of saṃsāra he is the goodly road

Ever departing from all places of darkness

He opens his divine eye and ever observes

Ultimately unstained, the one of purity

Sin and merit moving him not, performing liberation

Able, in his own body, to contemplate the nature of emptiness

His craving and views wholly ended, goodly unstained

In the realm of desire he departs from the thought and conception

Departing from the defilement of afflictions and from discrimination

His mind again stilled and tranquil amid endeavors

Quietly within the Dharma he attains liberation

Supremely still and tranquil, the Great Muni

Wholly pure, the one without stain

His world-transcending merit truly vast and great

A goodly great light for the world

The world, mired in deluded realms, ever deluded in contemplation

He contemplates all dharmas filled with true reality

The cords of craving severed, his spiritual penetrations complete

Goodly bringing forth wisdom's great radiance and light

Shattering in others all minds of clinging and defilement

In all their joys of mind made wholly pure

The Tathāgata has departed from all that is errant

Therefore one must pay him homage and make offering

He removes all dharmas unprofitable and evil

All things he makes accord with benefit

The Buddha and sentient beings are wholesome friends

Among the footless and the two-footed he is foremost

Abiding in mindfulness and wisdom amid all natures

Goodly complete, never losing that Dharma

The Buddha, in the self-nature of meaning and non-meaning

Harmonizing and relying yet never clinging

The fear of this near shore of birth and death now removed

He therefore realizes Nirvāṇa, the joy of the far shore

The Buddha goodly relies upon the proper and right road

Hearkening, his mind neither erring nor diminishing

Among all the pure ones, the Buddha is most high

Vast and great in form and mark, his wisdom's light shining

The world is sunk and drowned in the taste of desire

The Buddha's wisdom has ever goodly departed far from it

His wisdom praises the gate of Nirvāṇa

I bow my head to the Tathāgata of decisive speech

Seeing unstained and thinking unstained

Speech unstained together with karma unstained

Livelihood unstained together with diligence unstained

Mindfulness unstained together with concentration unstained

Liberation unstained, wisdom unstained

In morality, concentration, and wisdom goodly abiding

All bonds wholly severed and removed

Shattering all the afflictions in their inversion

The Tathāgata, the place where pure conduct is born

He has dwelt upon the ground truly cool and refreshing

In all his doings the one stilled and tranquil

Unstained by the world, the one revered and beloved

Again able to sever the five lower fetters

Again able to fulfill the Dharma of six parts

Giving rise to a single equanimous, protective mind of remembrance

The four intentions accomplished and again without defect

Purely one and true, without separate sport

In equanimity he gives and renounces craving in the world

Without error, his thinking mind true and right

Again attaining all places of ease and lightness

His goodly mind liberated, his wisdom liberated

Purely one in pure conduct, goodly established

The Tathāgata, the supreme one, the Great Man

Therefore I take refuge broadly and offer praise

I bow my head to the Great Arhat

Apart from name, apart from mark, apart from station

Going forth from name and mark, the gate of station

Name, mark, and station all stilled and silent

Goodly seeing the mind able to quench the fire of desire

The greed and craving and defilement of desire's realm all removed

In those defilements of desire he departs from the consciousness that holds them

And departs from all the faults and errors of desire

He goodly cultivates the seven kinds of contemplation

He goodly speaks the Dharma-gates of the limbs of enlightenment

In all of them he surpasses every other

The Buddha is the valiant and fearless one

Departing from delusion, severing defilement, surpassing all

His power of morality increasing, the pool without transgression

Complete in observance, his good wisdom subtle and wondrous

Within, gathering all the merits

Without doubt, departing from defilement, ever joyful and content

Again stilling the deluded roots of the world

The Great Śramaṇa, his work now accomplished

I bow my head to the true, the one of joy

The Buddha, surpassing even Manojña

I bow my head to the Tathāgata beyond all compare

In right mindfulness able to contemplate all awareness

Not for the sake of subduing others, yet subduing them

Again attaining stillness and tranquility with no doings

I bow my head to the King of Bulls, the lofty one

Immeasurable, deep and far, abiding in silence

In right wisdom ever practicing, his conduct of ease and joy

Like this Dharma and discipline, truly dignified

I bow my head to the dignified of body, still and tranquil of mind

His practices complete, his words well spoken

His body manifesting the ascetic life, marks hard to perform

His words without frivolous discourse, abiding in the true and right

I bow my head to the one free of desire, the one of right livelihood

The Tathāgata, lofty and again sovereign

Like Śakra in the midst of the heavens

Inclining toward the right and goodly in contemplation

His language humble and reverent yet light and gentle

Wholly pure, truly pure

Goodly loving without attachment, vast and pure

Ripened in merit, his provisions complete

I bow my head to the one who has arrived at the most high

The Buddha is the supreme Sage-King

Broadly storing merit, full and never diminished

His pure conduct now complete, his deceit now removed

I bow my head to the rightly enlightened one in radiance and light

His body and mind pure and again light and gentle

Stilling all enmities and foes

Stilled and tranquil, of great wisdom, the one of vast wisdom

The roots of wrath and anger, ever joyful

Among those sentient beings, what could equal him

Beyond all reckoning, departed from all defilements

In the body penetrating through, without doubt

I bow my head to the One Able and Humane, the one of Good Understanding

In teaching and taming he surpasses all

Unsurpassed and lovable, creating radiance and light

Without seeking, without arrogance, without attachment to craving

I bow my head to the one without madness, the one of purity

Already departed from darkness, with nowhere defiled

Among those sentient beings he is supreme

He straightway attains good stillness and a great name

I bow my head to the one without attachment, without bond or tie

Long departed from delusion and engrossment

Without self, without grasping at marks, the view of self removed

At the beginning, middle, and end goodly proclaiming the Dharma

Good in letter, good in meaning, all complete

In the suffering of sentient beings he has not yet wearied

Because the Buddha by skillful means takes his rest

Sentient beings without a realm must depart far

The Buddha by skillful means makes them depart far

The Tathāgata does not abide in the dharma of cessation

Ever practicing deliverance, embracing the world

And again in those vast and great Dharma-gates

I bow my head to the great wisdom that wholly and broadly embraces

He stills the false and deluded discriminations

Goodly departing from all the seeking of the immortals' path

Casting off the evil dharmas, manifesting as the worthy one

Departing from the seven kinds of defilement, accomplishing pure conduct

Like emptiness, in his place he cannot be defiled

Pure, ever relying upon pure conduct

Only removing the defiling dharmas, discerning the nature of emptiness

Departing from words and speech, his mind unattached

The Buddha ever abides in the nature of mindfulness of the body

The Buddha's mind has passed beyond the two extremes

His right wisdom deep and profound, the one of valiant strength

Within the gate of Auspiciousness, the one of goodly body

I bow my head to the great compassion beyond conceiving

In all that he creates, of himself the power to penetrate

The weak and feeble he is able to aid in cultivation

The goodly and beautiful he likewise follows in accord

The Buddha is the body of Vajra, firm and solid

Born forth from the truly real

Abiding in all places as fitting and accordant

Attaining Great Nirvāṇa, the place of utmost joy

The Tathāgata has attained the great benefit

Renouncing his own private joy yet unstained

Leading the world into the place of peace and security

Broadly, for sentient beings, speaking the right path

I take refuge in the one of great awakening

Who manifestly realized the path of right enlightenment

Those who do not cultivate pure conduct

The Buddha goodly establishes for their sake

The Buddha is the one of the path of wisdom

He who knows the path, the one who proclaims the path

The Buddha is the one of the right path

To which all roads turn and converge

The Buddha is born from the place of light

And again is born from wisdom

The birth of meaning and the birth of the Dharma

He goodly speaks the ultimate meaning

When all the meanings come forth

Among men, the great Lion

Among men, the one like a dragon and elephant

Among men, the great Immortal

Among men, the one of right knowing

Among men, the one of Wise Valor

Among men, surpassing and hard to match

Among men, truly the most high

Among men, the one of rare excellence

Among men, the white lotus flower

Neither alarmed nor afraid

Neither anxious nor afraid

The Buddha is the one departed from anxiety

Unafraid and again without contention

Dread and peril are not in him

He severs and extinguishes those hard fears

Himself departed from the realm of fear and dread

He likewise makes others depart from it

Himself severing and extinguishing fear and dread

He likewise makes others find the path

Himself crossing the bitter sea of suffering

He likewise makes others cross

Departed from the body, his nature rejoicing

Departed from the body, his nature beyond sorrow

The Buddha surpasses all beyond compare

And again cannot be compared

His merit hard to praise in full

Surpassing the place of all praise

Again he cannot be grasped in form

Again he cannot be wholly discriminated

Surpassing all other sentient beings

Only one and not two

The Buddha is the Spontaneous Wisdom

With whom none can compare

Broadly, for the sake of all sentient beings

I bow my head to the All-Knowing One

Among gods and humans in the world

Subduing Māra together with the Śramaṇas

The Buddha is the supreme one

And again none surpasses him above

The Buddha, precious and rare

And again truly hard to attain

To meet a Buddha, rare in his arising in the world

Truly rare and hard to meet

Truly the one of the Holy Eye

And again for his great light

A great goodly one, and shining bright

A great lamp of great light

Without darkness, radiating great light

And again attaining the supreme Dharma

Complete in faculties, powers, and the limbs of the path

Not shared with the Śrāvakas

If it were not for benefit

The Tathāgata would not be born

Without benefit he does not appear

Without benefit he again finds no rest

The Buddha, for the sake of the multitude of beings

For their benefit, therefore appears

Compassionate toward the world

He creates all deeds of benefit

In the midst of humans and gods

The Buddha is the one of right view

Using the right path and the law of discipline

To teach them all

And again within that assembly

The Buddha is the place of reverence and love

Should one give rise to a mind of reverence and love

And form the contemplation of honor

The Buddha is the one to draw near to

And to reverence in accord

Paying homage, seeing True Suchness

The supremely auspicious jewel

The Buddha's wisdom-eye shining bright

And again born from the wisdom-eye

Opening forth the lamp of wisdom

Holding that great light of wisdom

Kindling the lamp of wisdom that shines and illumines

His great wisdom shattering the place of darkness

Sovereign over all natures

The Tathāgata wholly illumines and discerns

The Tathāgata, his wisdom-faculty good

Subtle and wondrous and again supreme

The Tathāgata, his power of great wisdom

Which cannot be made to bow down

Storing inexhaustible wealth of wisdom

Full of the priceless jewel of wisdom

Bearing and holding the sharp blade of wisdom

Grasping and holding the staff of wisdom

And again releasing the sword of wisdom

His wisdom neither falling nor diminishing

His good wisdom opens the right wisdom

Clearly knowing all dharmas

His wisdom vast as a palace

The one of right wisdom abides therein

Firm and solid, wisdom is the wall

Its circuit all close and secure

The right wisdom beyond conceiving

For the sake of advancing on in turn

Unbowed and surpassing

With no other mind, abiding firm

Not subdued by another

And again grasping at nothing

Yet within those three realms

He is the one worthy of offering

He manifestly observes all things

Clinging to nothing in all things

What should be discerned he discerns

What should be departed from he departs

What should be attained he straightway attains

The good deeds, already done

This matter brought to completion

For the sake of teaching the world

The Buddha is the Great Sage

His vigor never before existing

Having established purity

Rare and broad in great deeds

Manifestly realizing the supreme path

The rare Dharma hard to conceive

He straightway attains the supreme place

Drinking the sweet water of Nirvāṇa

Uprooting the root and net of craving

Cutting off all roots of error and fault

Goodly acting, without distinction

The unstained Dharma he can grasp

Goodly born and goodly in essence

Excellent for going forth into homelessness

The wholesome roots again arriving for certain

I bow my head to the one who has arrived

Unmoving, beyond conceiving

The wise one among the wise

Flattery and crookedness, error and defilement removed

And again crossing the sea of afflictions

In accord, practicing liberation

Liberation from all bonds and ties

And again attaining the mind that does not grasp

And again ending all outflows

And again ending all error and fault

And again driving out all poisons

And again severing all hindrances

Wholly burning the nets of view

That is, the words of falsehood and delusion

And the false and deluded seeing and hearing

False mindfulness and false action

The Buddha departs from all of them

The aggregates, the bases, the elements, and all dharmas

Whether broadly or briefly, he goodly speaks

Relying upon purity, unbound

In all the places of reliance

Those not yet rescued he again rescues

Those not yet returned he makes return

Those with nowhere to go, he gives a destination

The Buddha for their sake creates a direction

Having crossed the sea of birth and death

He pervades and enters all realms

In the places fit for manifesting transformation

To all of them he should arrive

Those who have fallen into the evil realms

The Buddha ever discerns and ever remembers

Then taking up goodly skillful means

He universally delivers the multitude of beings

Without greed and without hatred

Without delusion, his wholesome roots complete

His great body ever abiding as body

Compassionate and benefiting

His body clothed in Śākya's robe

Broadly performing good and wholesome deeds

Rare in his power of vigor

The one of great wisdom who discerns the right

Morality, patience, and the true Dharma

His inner mind ever pure

Vast and great and deep and far

Complete in all the merits

His light shining clearly bright

Taming the mind, clean and pure within

A deep well of water truly clear

The wholesome seed manifesting in fullness

The world's pure eye

Beautiful and blue, the Utpala flower

Vast and great and beautiful

Pervading throughout the ten directions

Silent, his nature bright and beautiful

The beautiful moon of all wisdom

The Buddha's virtue, vast and immeasurable

Therefore do I offer praise.

Praise of the Auspicious Virtues of the Buddha

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