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_Homage to Mañjuśrī (the Wondrous Auspicious One)

The Supreme Meaning has been declared

Vajra-pāṇi (the Vajra-Palm Bodhisattva)

Subduing all the hosts of Māra

His body manifests throughout the three realms

The Lord of Secrets, sovereign and free

His eyes like lotus petals

His face like a lotus in full bloom

Holding fast the Vajra pestle

Hurling it with his hand, and hurling again

Manifesting the aspect of great wrath

His majesty quaking the realms of the ten directions

_Vajra-pāṇi the Bodhisattva (Vajra-pāṇi)

Likewise holds the Vajra pestle

In aspect diligent and wondrously subtle

Valiantly subduing Māra

Great Wisdom benefiting the multitude of beings

Manifesting myriad numbers of Vajra forms

Sometimes joyful and delighted

Sometimes manifesting the aspect of wrath

Bowing his head at the feet of the Buddha, the World-Honored One

With palms joined, his Mind reverent

Vowing to make the Dharma abide long

So that sentient beings may have refuge

Those foolish and without Wisdom

Those wretched and afflicted

He rescues and brings to liberation

All are protected toward the supreme Fruit

_The World-Honored One, the Tamer of Beings

Long abiding in the Great Samādhi

Penetrating the Nature of all Dharmas

The Faculties and Objects being likewise

_The Wisdom-Body of the Tathāgata

The aspect of the Uṣṇīṣa (Uṣṇīṣa: the crown protuberance)

Mañjuśrī: the One of Great Wisdom

The Contemplating Wisdom skillfully gives rise to it

The meaning wondrously subtle and profound

The Great Dharma, the Wheel Without Equal

Good in the beginning, the middle, and the end

The Name and Meaning are supreme

The Buddhas of the past have declared it

The Buddhas of the future will declare it

The Buddhas of the present now declare it

Throughout the three times it is thus

Within the great net of Illusion

It is able to deliver all the multitude of beings

_Vajra-pāṇi the Bodhisattva

With joy then offered praise

"The Buddha speaks the True Secret Words

Now I am able to receive and uphold them

With a Mind resolute and firm

In all sincerity, O Perfectly Awakened One (Samyaksaṃbuddha)

Expound the secret Dharma

Guiding all sentient beings

To arouse the Undefiled Wisdom (Anāsravaḥ: no longer leaking, no longer afflicted)

Ending the afflictions without remainder"

_Vajra-pāṇi the Bodhisattva

Stood with palms joined before the Buddha

At that time the Buddha Śākyamuni (Śākya-muṇi)

The Supreme One Honored Among the Two-Legged

With the aspect of the tongue, with truthful words

In wondrously subtle, pure sound

Pervading throughout the three realms

In the Brahma-voice (Brahma-ghoṣa) offered praise

"The Tathāgata, the Lord of Secrets

Proclaims the Essential of the Great Dharma"

_"Excellent, O Vajra-pāṇi!

Excellent, O Vajra-holder!

Because you act for the sake of benefit

The Great Wisdom is accomplished

The supreme Great Beneficial Meaning

Eradicates all the defilements of transgression"

_Mañjuśrī, the One of Great Wisdom

Wishing to hear such meaning

"Excellent, O Great Guiding Master!

By skillful means, pray proclaim it"

_At that time the Buddha Śākyamuni

Unfolded the secret Dharma

Gathering and upholding the Great Vidyā-mantra

Namely: the Vidyā-mantra-holding Division

The Mundane and Supramundane Division

The All-Pervading World Division

The Great Seal of All Dharmas Division

The Uṣṇīṣa Division

The six kinds of Great Mantra King

Corresponding without duality

Giving rise to the Dharma in Gāthā (Gāthā)

Now I shall proclaim it

"Át a nhất ế ốt ô y ái ổ áo ám ác"

A Ā I Ī U Ū E AI O AU AṂ AḤ

Abiding in the Mind of Contemplating Wisdom

The three karmas turn as the Tathāgata's

The syllable Oṃ, the Vajra-Sharp (Vajra-tīkṣna)

Able to sever suffering and affliction

Mañjuśrī, the Great Auspicious One

The Wisdom of Wondrous Contemplation and Discernment

Proclaims the secret Gate

The Sovereign King Divine Mantra

"A la bát tả na dã đế, nẵng mạc"

A RA PA CA NA ĀYATE NAMAḤ

_Homage to the Buddha, the World-Honored One

Giving rise to the Wisdom of Bodhi

The syllable Āḥ within all things

Is the meaning of the Great Supreme

Giving rise to the Great Sentient Beings

Apart from Mind, apart from the marks of speech

In all sounds

In all marks of radiant light

_This Mahā, the Great Craving

To which sentient beings cling defiled

Mahā, the Great Hatred

The Cause (Hetu) of all suffering and affliction

Mahā, the Great Delusion

Penetrating deep into the Minds of sentient beings

Mahā, the Great Wrath

This is the great Enmity and harm

Mahā, the Great Delight and Joy

Every Attachment of View (the two afflictions of view and emotion) of the Mind

_Great Desire with Great Bliss

Great Joy with Great Defilement

Great Form with Great Body

Great Mark with Great Countenance

Great Name with Great Giving

The Great Perfect Bodhimaṇḍa

Wielding the sword of Great Wisdom

Severing the net of Great Affliction

_Great Manifestation with Great Renown

Great Light with Great Brilliance

Great Illusion acting as the Illusionist

Accomplishing the meaning of Great Illusion

_Great Illusory Transformation defiled with Desire

The net of the View of Great Illusory Transformation (the conception of great illusory transformation)

Great Giving, surpassing and excellent

Great Diligence, valiant and brave

Great Meditative Absorption, abiding at peace

Great Wisdom, giving rise to

Great Skillful Means, Great Vow

Great Power with Great Wisdom

_The Dharma of Great Loving-kindness: No-Self (the absence of an I)

Great Compassion: a profound and wondrous practice

Great Wisdom: greatly valiant and brave

Great Giving: vast in skillful means

Great Spiritual Power: the strength of Wisdom

Great Majestic Virtue, firm and strong

The Great Vajra, secret

Great Wrath, majestic and fierce

Able to remove great fear and dread

The Great Supreme Vidyā-rāja

The Supreme Practice of the Great Vehicle

Causing the Dharma of the Great Vehicle to increase and grow

_The Great Vairocana Buddha (Vairocana-buddha)

The Great Silent Sage Muni (Śākya-muṇi)

Giving rise to the Great Mantra Division

Accomplishing the secret Dharma

Relying on the ten Pāramitās

Cultivating the surpassing Practice

Attaining the ten Pāramitās (Daśa-pāramitā)

The Gate of the Wondrous Pure Dharma

The ten kinds of Pāramitā

The Tathāgata's Fundamental True Wisdom

The sovereign Practice of the ten Grounds

Securely abiding in the ten Grounds

The pure Body of the ten Wisdoms

The assembly of Merit of the ten Wisdoms

The ten Marks, the ten Beneficial Meanings

The Muni, the One Honored with the Ten Powers

The ten Marks: a vast and expansive practice

Encircling all, all complete and full

The Tathāgata's Pure Body

Neither real nor false

True Words with Real Words

Words As-It-Is, Words Not-Otherwise

Not two, nor not-two

Abiding in the Limit of Suchness as-it-truly-is

In the meaning of No-Self (the absence of an I)

Like the roar of the Lion

His majesty quaking all the Outer Paths

The hosts of Māra are all terrified

All the Practice of True Emptiness

The Tathāgata himself realizes

Valiantly destroying the enemy adversaries

This is called the Supreme

The Great-Power Wheel-Turning King

The most supreme honored one

All give rise to a reverent Mind

Penetrating the Dharma without difference

Expounding the Teaching of the Great Vehicle

Praising the boundless meaning

The words of the Tathāgata are truthful

Not real, not false and deceptive

Drawing and guiding the multitude of the deluded

All attain non-regression

Śrāvaka (Śrāvaka) with Pratyekabuddha (Pratyeka-buddha)

The Buddha-Vehicle (Buddha-yāna), the Fruit of Bodhi (Bodhi-phala)

In every kind of Emptiness (Śūnya: Emptiness) clinging not

Comprehending as-it-truly-is

The Arhat with Outflows Exhausted

Attains the Faculties and Objects free of Desire

Ending the Fetters (bandhana or Saṃyojana) and afflictions (Kleśa)

Without fear (fearless), attaining cool refreshment

The Tathāgata, the One Without Attachment

Perfect in Knowledge and Conduct, the Well-Gone One

The Supreme One of the World

The Tamer, the Honored One of Ten Epithets

Without conceit and Pride (Ātma-māna) of arrogance

The truthful Mind abiding in peace

Far departing from the realm of rebirth

For myriad eons cultivating the Surpassing Practice

Having done what was to be done

The Mind of Wisdom resolute

_The World-Honored One, the Great Dharma King

Expounding the wondrously subtle Dharma

Encircling all the World

Teaching and transforming sentient beings

Using the most surpassing Practice

Accomplishing all the Beneficial Meanings

Acting as the Great Guiding Master

Causing all to depart from doubt

The entire realm of sentient beings

All attain the Ground (Bhūmi) of peace and security

Giving (Dāna), Discipline (Śīla), Patience (Kṣānti), Diligence (Vīrya), Meditation (Dhyāna)

Cultivated and infused as the Treasury of Merit (Puṇya-garbha)

The Pāramitā of Wisdom (Prajña-pāramitā)

Cultivated and infused as the Treasury of Wisdom (Prajña-garbha)

Skillful Means (Upāya) with Vow (Praṇidhāna), Power (Bala)

Accordingly cultivating the two Treasuries

Perfectly practicing every Wholesome thing (Kuśala)

Always corresponding throughout all

In the wondrously subtle Mind of Meditative Absorption

Manifesting bodily marks unmoving

The three bodies: Dharma (Dharma-kāya), Reward (Saṃbhoga-kāya), Transformation (Nirmāṇa-kāya)

The five Buddhas, the five kinds of Wisdom

The five Buddhas adorned with jeweled crowns

The five eyes illumining the World

Responding and manifesting all Buddhas

Causing every Wholesome thing to increase and grow

The strength of Wisdom that has been cultivated

Able to sever the turning-cycle

The Vajra body, firm and solid

Truly beyond all reckoning

_Vairocana Buddha (Vairocana-buddha)

Blazing with the radiance of Great Wisdom

Naturally within empty space

Pouring forth the radiance of Wisdom

Illumining all the lands and realms

All the Bodies of the Tathāgata (Tathāgata-kāya)

The Vidyā-rāja Great Mantra

The supreme meaning all accomplished

_The Great Uṣṇīṣa (Mahoṣṇīṣa: the Great Crown Protuberance)

Emitting pure and clear radiance

Illumining all the Bodies of the Buddhas

Those Buddhas all reverent

With Minds gazing in joy

Their dignified bearing all complete

In offerings all offering praise

The Muni, the Great Golden Immortal

Abiding in the three Mantra Divisions

The Samādhi Mantra appearing before him

The Three Jewels (Tri-ratna: the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma, Saṃgha) most surpassing

The Three Vehicles (Triṇi-yānāni: Śrāvaka, Pratyekabuddha, Bodhisattva) with their guidance

_The Amoghapāśa Division (Amogha-pāśa-kulāya)

Holding the Vajra cord

Holding the Vajra hook

Manifesting the aspect of wrath

Subduing all the Māra-enemies

The Great Wrathful Vidyā-rāja (Mahā-krodha-vidya-rāja)

Six faces manifesting six eyes

A single body giving rise to six arms

From the mouth protruding great sharp fangs

The hands holding the Kāmkāla

A hundred venomous serpents coiling the arms

Named Yamāntaka (Yamāntaka)

Also named the King Who Removes Obstacles

Manifesting an aspect most fearsome

Holding the sharp Vajra

Every kind of differing aspect

Manifesting Vajra retinue

Filling all of empty space

_The Great Awe-Inspiring Virtue, the Wrathful

The Immovable Honored Vidyā-rāja (Acala-nātha-vidya-rāja)

A single topknot of tangled, disheveled hair

His body bearing the hide of a great elephant

When he sends forth a great laughing sound

The sound of Ha Ha, Hī Hī

Trees and grasses all tremble and shake

Manifesting as the Great Laughing Vidyā-rāja (Mahāṭṭā-hāsa)

_The Vajra King (Vara-rāja): Great Bliss

The Vajra Commander (Vajra-sena): Great Joy

The Vajra Mantra (Vajra-mantra): Hūṃ Hūṃ

The Vajra Bow (Vajra-dhanus) with Arrow (the arrow)

The hand holding the Vajra sword

All removing and severing the afflictions

Its function firm, solid, and sharp

This supreme Vajra

The Vajra fire blazing brilliantly

The Vajra eyes shining radiantly

The great form-aspect of Vajra

The Vajra fire: a hundred eyes

The Vajra hair sharp and pointed

Manifesting the aspect of battle

The Vajra manifesting nails of fingers

Myriad numbers of firm sharp peaks

The supreme Vajra garland (the surpassing flower-garland of Vajra)

The wondrous Vajra adornment (the marvelous adornment of Vajra)

The sound of Vajra Laughter (the laughter of Vajra)

The Syllable-Gate has six kinds

The sound of Mañjuśrī (Mañjuśrī)

Penetrating throughout the three realms

Even to the realm of empty space

The sounds all penetrate everywhere

_As-it-truly-is, knowing and comprehending

All Dharmas as No-Self

Apart from script and from speech

Identical with the True-Limit Dharma-Nature

Just as the Great Bull King

Roars forth a great sound

Blowing the great Dharma-conch (Mahā-dharma-śaṅkara)

Beating the great Dharma-drum (Mahā-dharma-duṇḍbhi)

Raising the vast Dharma-banner (Mahā-dharma-ketu, or mahā-dharma-dhvaja)

Producing a vast and expansive sound

Not abiding in Nirvāṇa (Nirvāṇa)

Out of compassion for sentient beings

The realms of empty space in the ten directions

Without form (Rūpa: material shape, color), nor without form (Arūpa)

Every kind of form within the Mind

Able to comprehend all Dharmas

Like a great round mirror

Illumining all without remainder

Transforming the hosts of Devas and Humans

In the three realms attaining sovereign freedom

Abiding in the equality of the Noble Path (Ārya-mārga)

Appearing upon the Dharma-banner (Dharma-ketu)

Throughout the Realms of the ten directions

Manifesting the aspect of a Youth (Kumāra)

Sometimes manifesting the aspect of a Śramaṇa (Śramaṇa)

Sometimes manifesting the aspect of an old man

Sometimes the thirty-two marks

Upright, dignified, and wondrously subtle

_The One of Wisdom and Virtuous Conduct

The Ācārya Dharma-Master

Delivering all sentient beings

Correspondingly attaining Perfect Awakening (saṃbuddha)

Penetrating the realm of empty space

The ocean of the Wisdom of All-Knowing Wisdom (Sarva-jña-jñāna)

Destroying the net of Ignorance (Avidya)

Crushing and annihilating the Wheel of Cyclic Flow (the cycle of flowing transmigration)

Forever departing from all afflictions

Swiftly reaching the other shore (Pāramitā: the shore of liberation, Nirvāṇa)

_With the water of Wisdom (Jñāna-jala) sprinkling the crown

Adorned with the crown of Wondrous Jewels

Cutting off the three kinds of suffering (the suffering of suffering, the suffering of formations, the suffering of decay)

Departing from all bonds

Attaining the three kinds of Liberation (Emptiness, Signlessness, Wishlessness)

Accomplishing Perfect and Complete Awakening (Samyaksaṃbuddha)

Ever dwelling within the three realms

Benefiting sentient beings

Perfecting the pure Practice

Merit all increasing and growing

Departing from all clinging-attachment

Abiding in the True Reality Limit (Suchness)

Holding the Great Wish-Fulfilling Jewel

Acting as the supreme Guiding Master

Manifesting the Great Marks correspondingly

Acting as the supreme Auspicious Vase (Pūrṇa-ghaṭa, or Bhadra-Kalaśa)

Richly benefiting sentient beings

Holding them in mind as a newborn child

_Penetrating Purity, penetrating non-Purity

Penetrating the Time-Portions of Samādhi

Comprehending and penetrating Right Concentration

Penetrating the faculties and objects of sentient beings

Penetrating Merit, penetrating the Dharma

Attaining the three kinds of Liberation

The Auspicious matter pure and clear

The Mind exultant and joyful

_Five faces with five crowns

Five mountains, the aspect of adornment

Great Joy with Great Bliss

Great Celebration with Great Desire

Determining the true Dharma

The Auspicious Supreme Honored One

A wondrously subtle and surpassing Practice

Benefiting sentient beings

Acting to subdue the Māra-enemies

Eradicating all fear and dread

_Śikhī, the Seven-Sage Ascetics

Locks of hair hanging in disheveled tresses

Shaving the hair with the Dhūta practice (Dhūta: a kind of austerity that removes the filth of affliction)

Wearing the robe of the Great Pure Conduct (Mahā-brahma-caryā)

Upholding the supreme Pure Conduct (Brahma-caryā)

The host of Great Brahmins (Mahā-brāhmaṇa)

The ash-bodied one, Gautama (Gautama)

Cultivating and upholding the Great Austerities

Realizing the pure Nirvāṇa

In silent stillness attaining liberation

Able to uphold the Great Pure Conduct

At peace and joyful, without defiled clinging

Resolutely severing suffering and pleasure

Far departing from all the Desires (Rāga)

Neither losing nor gaining

Neither manifesting, nor clinging

All Conduct without stain

This is the Brahmin (Brāhmaṇa)

_The Bodhisattva cultivating the Right Practice

The Consciousness pure and without stain

Departing from defilement, without fear

Skillfully awakening to the Buddha-Nature (Buddhatā)

With Wisdom comprehending the Tathāgata Ground (Tathāgata-bhūmi)

Able to know the Dharmas of the past

Neither Wisdom (Jñāna) nor Form (Rūpa)

Likewise without doubt

Beholding the Buddhas of the three times

The Dharma from of old without clinging

Comprehending the Dharma free of bondage

The Eye of Wisdom illumining without obstruction

The Tathāgata's Wondrous Contemplating Wisdom

The Sovereign King who Expounds the Dharma

Using the supreme meaning of the Dharma

Removing all disputes

Like the Lion King among lions

Able to subdue the myriad beasts

Sentient beings all gazing in admiration

The Tathāgata, the aspect of reverence

_Mañjuśrī's Wondrous Wisdom Light (the light of Mañjuśrī's Wondrous Wisdom)

Blazing, illumining all everywhere

The Anointed Prince of the Dharma King

The Supreme Master of Name and Meaning

Able to act as the most excellent medicine

Eradicating all illness and suffering

The radiance of the Ūrṇā mark (Ūrṇā: the white hair-tuft coiling to the right between the brows)

Illumining all three realms

Even to the realms of the ten directions

Raising the great Dharma-banner everywhere

And unfurling the great canopy and parasol

Acting as the Bodhimaṇḍa of Loving-Kindness and Compassion

The lotus flower, the great jeweled parasol

Covering all the Tathāgatas

The Dharma-Nature (Dharmatā) of all Buddhas

All Buddhas corresponding

All Buddhas equal

This is the supreme honored one

_The Vajra Wisdom Anointment

The Auspicious Sovereign King

The Sovereign of All Worlds

The Supreme Vajra King

The Great Mind of all Buddhas

The Wisdom-Practice of all Buddhas

The Great Body (the vast and great body) of all Buddhas

The Wondrous Eloquence (the marvelous activity) of all Buddhas

_The Vajra Sun's great radiance (the vast radiance of the Vajra Sun)

The Vajra Moon's great brilliance (the vast clarity of the Vajra Moon)

Blazing, illumining all everywhere

The realms of sentient beings in the ten directions

The Vajra Buddha: firm and solid

The Buddha of the Supreme Meaning: the Dharma arising

The Lotus Buddha: auspicious

Accomplishing the All-Knowing Wisdom (Sarva-jña)

The Buddha upholding the Dharma of Great Illusion

The Buddha upholding the Great Vidyā-mantra

The Vajra sword, exceedingly sharp

Severing the fetters of affliction

The Vajra Dharma, the great vessel

The Vajra Dharma, the most supreme

Giving rise to the Vajra Wisdom

Perfecting the Pāramitā

The Buddha-Ground (Buddha-bhūmi) as the adornment

The pure Dharma, No-Self

_Right Wisdom, the Mind comprehending clearly

The net of illusion, every kind of matter

The Vajra is able to sever and remove them

Ending the afflictions, without remainder

THE SŪTRA OF THE SUPREME NAME AND MEANING SPOKEN BY MAÑJUŚRĪ _VOLUME ONE. The End.