唐梵翻對字音般若波羅蜜多心經

The Sanskrit text of the PRAJNAPARAMITA HEART SUTRA was translated by the Tripitaka Master of the Great Tang. When the Tripitaka Master journeyed to India, he reached Yizhou and spent the night within the bodhimanda of Konghui Monastery. There he encountered an ailing monk and inquired about his condition and mobility.

During their conversation, the monk sighed in admiration of the Dharma Master, saying: “To forget one’s own body for the sake of the Dharma is truly rare! Although the journey to the five regions of India involves more than a hundred thousand adversities—the road crosses rivers of sand and deep waves of the Weak Water; north winds arise everywhere; grasses grow thick and fill the way, causing travelers grief; at times the Demon Mountains wail, while falling leaves precede weapons in the wilderness; at dawn one crosses snowy peaks, and at dusk avalanches descend; monkeys and apes cling to trees; the landscape abounds in chimei, strange spirits of mountains and marshes that harm people; green mountains rise range upon range, winding like white clouds crowned with snow;

trees gather upon Vulture Peak; emerald mountains tower into the sky; the road is difficult and beset with many disasters—how will you make the journey?

I possess the essential Heart Dharma-gate of the Buddhas of the three times. If you receive and uphold it, it can protect you throughout your travels.” He then orally transmitted it to the Dharma Master, and early the next morning the monk departed. After the Tripitaka Master had prepared his provisions, he gradually left the borders of the Tang realm.

Whenever he encountered hardships on the road, or whenever vegetarian food was offered, he remembered it and recited it forty-nine times. Whenever he lost his way, a transformation being appeared to guide him. Whenever he thought of food, food appeared.

Whatever he sincerely prayed for was present before him.

When he reached Nalanda Monastery in Magadha, Central India, and circumambulated the Sutra Treasury in due order, he suddenly encountered the former monk. The monk said: “After passing through many hardships and dangers, I rejoice that you have reached this place. Long ago in the land of Cina, this humble one transmitted to you the essential Heart Dharma-gate of the Buddhas of the three times. Through this experience it protected you on your journey, enabling you swiftly to obtain the scriptures and fulfill your heart’s aspiration. I am Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.” Having spoken, he flew into the sky.

Thus an extraordinary auspicious sign was manifested, and this sutra proved efficacious. Believe that prajna is the essential key of the noble ones. By practicing according to the teaching, one will certainly cross to the shore of awakening and penetrate the ultimate intent of the Tathagata. Why should one need to pass through three incalculable eons? Reciting and chanting the Tathagata’s sutra can eliminate the three obstructions. Those who sincerely receive and uphold the import of its words, its essential principle, must indeed be diligent.

Translated by imperial command by Amoghavajra, specially advanced and appointed Minister of the Court of State Ceremonial, bearing the honorific title “One Equal to the Three Dukes,” enfeoffed as Duke of Su, posthumously awarded the office of Minister of Works, granted a fief of three thousand households, and imperially styled Great Discerning and Correct Expounder.

Universal Praise of the Three Jewels of the Lotus Family and Other Families

“Nẵng mô một đà dã (1) ngộ la phệ (2) nẵng mô đạt ma dã (3) đà dĩ minh ma (4) nẵng mô tăng già dã (5) ma hạ-đế đế-dư tì-dược (7) tỳ xá tá (8) ca ma la mục khư (9) ca ma la lộ tả nẵng (10) ca ma la la sa nẵng (11) ca ma la hạ sa đá

(12) ca ma la bà mẫu nễ (13) ca ma la (14) ca ma la (15) tam bà phộc sa (16) ca la ma la (17) ất sái la nẵng (18) na mô tểđổ đế”

NAMO BUDDHĀYA KUṆAMI NAMO DHARMĀYA TAYĀNI NAMO SAṂGHĀYA MAHATI TYAJ-EBHYAḤ VIṢA CA KAMALA MUKHE KAMALA LOCANA KAMALĀSANA KAMALA HASTA KAMALA BHAMUNI KAMALA KAMALA-SAṂBHAVA KAMALA KṢARA NAMOSTUTE

Sanskrit Text: THE PRAJNAPARAMITA HEART SUTRA

The unpolished Sanskrit text personally transmitted by Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva to Tripitaka Dharma Master XUANZANG

Bát-la (PRA) nga nhương (JNA) bả la nhĩ (PARAMI) đá (TA) ngật-lý na dã

(HEART) tốđát-lam (SUTRA) 1) A lý-dã (Noble) 2) phộc lộ (Beholding) chỉđế (Self) thấp phộc lộ (Mastery) mạo địa (Bodhi) sa đát vũ (sattva) 3) nghiễm tỵ lam (profound) bát-la (pra) nga nhương (jna) bá (pa) la (ra) nhĩ

(mi) đá (ta) 3) tả lý-diễm (practice) tả la (practicing) ma nô vĩ-dã (at the time) 5) Phộc lỗ ca (illuminating) để sa-ma (seeing) bạn tả 6) Tắc kiến đà (five skandhas: ? skandha) sa đát thất-tả (those) sa phộc (own) bà phộc

(nature) thú nễ-diễm (empty) bá thất-dã để sa-ma (manifest) 7) Y hạ (this) 8) xả (Sha) lý (ri) bổđát-la (putra) 9) Lỗ bạn (form) thú nễ-diễm (empty) thú nễ-dã (emptiness) đế (nature) phộc (is)

lộ bạn (form) 10) Lỗ bá (form) nẵng (not) bỉ-lật tha (different from) thú nễ-dã đa (emptiness) 11) Thú nễ-dã (emptiness) đá dã (also) 12) Nẵng (not) bỉ-lật tha (different from) tát-lỗ bạn (form) 13) Dạ (that which is) nộ-lộ bạn (form) sa thú nễ-dã đá (emptiness) 14) Thú (is) nễ-dã đá (emptiness) [?Dã (is) Thú nễ-dã đá (emptiness)] sa (that) lộ

bạn (form) ê phộc (thus) nhĩ phộc (is) 15) phệ na nẵng (feeling) tán nga nhương (perception) tán sa ca la (formations) vĩ nga

nhương nam (consciousness) 16) Y hạ (this) xả (Sha) lý (ri) bổđát-la (putra) 17) Tát la phộc (all) đạt ma (dharmas) thú nễ-dã đá (emptiness) lạc khất-xoa noa

(mark) 18) A nộ (not) đá-bả nẵng (born) a ninh (not) lộđà (not: ? extinguished) 19) A (not) [?missing ma la (defiled)] vĩ ma la (pure: ? not pure) 20) A (not) nộ nẵng (increased) A (not) bá lý bổ la noa (diminished) 21) Đá (this) sa mỗi (therefore) xả (Sha) lý (ri) bổđát-la (putra) 22) Thú nễ-dã (emptiness) đá diễm (within) nẵng (no) lộ bạn (form)

23) Nẵng (no) phệ na nẵng (feeling)

24) Nẵng (no) tán nga-nhương (perception)

25) Nẵng (no) tán sa ca-la (formations)

26) Nẵng (no) vĩ nga-nhương nam (consciousness)

27) Nẵng (no) chiết khất sô (eye) thú lộđát-la (ear) ca-la noa (nose) nhĩ hạ (tongue) phộc ca dã (body) ma nẵng lặc (mind)

28) Nẵng (no) lộ bạn (form) nhiếp na (sound) ngạn đà (odor) la sa (taste) bá¬la sắt tra vĩ-dã (touch) đạt ma (dharmas)

29) Nẵng (no) chước khất-sô (eye) đà đô (dhatu)

30) Lý-dã (up to) phộc (and including) nẵng (no) ma nộ (mind) vĩ nga nhương-nga nẫm (consciousness) đà đô (dhatu)

31) Nẵng (no) vĩ nễ dã (ignorance)

32) Nẵng (no) vĩ nễ dã (ignorance, no exhaustion)

33) Nẵng (no) vĩ nễ dã (ignorance) khất xoa dụ (exhaustion)

34) Nẵng (no) vĩ nễ dã (ignorance) khất xoa dụ (exhaustion)

35) Dã (up to) Phộc (and including) nhạ la (aging) ma la nam (no: ? death)

36) Nẵng (no) nhạ la (aging) ma la noa (no: ? death) khất xoa dụ (exhaustion)

37) Nẵng (no) nậu khư (suffering) sa mẫn na dã (origin) ninh lộđà (cessation) ma (rga) nga nhương (path)

38) Nẵng (no) nga nhương nam (wisdom)

39) Nẵng (no) bát-la bỉđể (attainment)

40) Nẵng (no) tỵ sa ma (realization)

41) Đá (because) sa mỗi (no) na (that which is) bát-la bỉ-phủ (attained) đát phộc (therefore)

42) Mạo (bo) địa (dhi) sa (sat) đát phộc nam (tvas)

43) Bát-la (pra) nga-nhương (jna) bá (pa) la nhĩ (rami) đá (ta) [?bá la nhĩđá: paramita]

44) ma thất-lý để-dã (relying) vĩ hạ (upon) la để-dã (abide)

45) Chỉđá (mind) phộc (without) la (obscuration) noa (obstruction)

[Translator’s note: This sutra text duplicates the passage from sentence 33 through sentence 45 above.]

33) Vĩ nễ dã (ignorance) khất xoa dụ (exhaustion)

34) Nẵng (no) vĩ nễ dã (ignorance) khất xoa Dụ (exhaustion)

35) Dã (up to) Phộc (and including no) nhạ la (aging) ma la nam (death)

36) Nẵng (no) nhạ la (aging) ma la noa (death) khất xoa dụ (exhaustion)

37) Nẵng (no) nậu khư (suffering) sa mỗi na dã (origin) ninh lỗđà (cessation) ma lý nga¬nhương (path)

38) Nẵng (no) nga nhương nam (wisdom)

39) Nẵng (no) bát-la bỉđể (attainment)

40) Nẵng (no) tỳ sa ma (realization)

41) đá (because) sa mỗi (no) na (that which is) bát-la bỉđể (attained) đát phộc (therefore)

42) Mạo (bo) địa (dhi) sa (sat) đát phộc nam (tvas)

43) Bát la (pra) nga nhương (jna) bá (pa) la (ra) nhĩ (mi) đá (ta)

44) Ma thất lý để dã (relying) vĩ hạ (upon) la để-dã (abide)

45) Chỉđá (mind) phộc (without) la (obscuration) noa (obstruction)

46) Chỉđá (mind) la (obscuration) noa (obstruction)

47) Nẵng (no) tất đểđát-phộc (existence) na (fear) hãn-lý tốđô (terror)

48) Vĩ bá lý-dã sa (inversion) để (far) già lan đá (departed)

49) Ninh (ultimate) sắt tra (final) ninh lị dã-phộc (nir) nam (vana) 50) Để lý-dã (three) đà-phộc (times) 51) vĩ-dã phộc (those who) tất thểđá (abide) sa phộc (all) một đà (Buddhas) 52) Bát-la (pra) nga-nhương (jna) bá (pa) la (ra) nhĩ (mi) đá (ta) 53) ma thất-lý (therefore) để-thế (attain) nậu (unsurpassed) đá lan tảm miệu-thế (equal) tảm

(perfect) một địa (awakening) 54) Ma tỵ tảm một đà đá (is) sa-mỗi (therefore) nga-nhương đá (should) vĩ diễn (know) 55) Bát-la (pra) nga-nhương (jna) bá (pa) la (ra) nhĩ (mi) đá (ta) 56) Ma hạ (great) mãn đát lỗ (mantra) 57) Ma hạ (great) vĩ nễ-dã b (knowledge) mãn đát la (mantra) 58) A (un-) nậu đá la (surpassed) mãn đát la (mantra; A: un-) 59) sa ma (equal) sa để (equal) mãn đát la (mantra) 60) Tát (all) phộc (every) nậu khư (suffering) bát-la xả (pacifying) nẵng (ending well) 61) Sa (true) để dã (real) ma nhĩ (not) tán-lý dã đát-phộc (false) 62) Bát-la (pra) nga-nhương (jna) bá (pa) la (ra) nhĩ (mi) đá (ta) 63) Mục cật cấu (speaks) mãn đát la (mantra) đát nễ-dã tha (thus) 64) Nga đế, nga đế 65) Bá la nga đế 66) Bá la tăng nga đế 67) Mạo địa, sa phộc hạ

THE SANSKRIT PRAJNAPARAMITA HEART SUTRA — ONE FASCICLE (End)