文殊所說最勝名義經

_Homage to Mañjuśrī, the Wondrously Auspicious

The supreme meaning has been spoken

Vajra-pāṇi Bodhisattva

Subduing the hosts of Māra

His body manifesting throughout the three realms

The Secret Lord, sovereign and free

Eyes like lotus petals

Face like a lotus in full bloom

Grasping and holding the Vajra pestle

Hurling it with his hand, hurling it again

Manifesting the form of great wrath

His majesty shaking the realms of the ten directions

_Vajra-pāṇi Bodhisattva

Also grasps the Vajra pestle

The form of vigor, subtle and wondrous

Valiantly subduing Māra

With Great Wisdom benefiting the multitude of beings

Emanating myriads of Vajra forms

Sometimes joyful and delighted

Sometimes manifesting the form of wrath

Bowing his head to the Buddha, the World-Honored One

With palms joined, the mind reverent

He vows to make the Dharma abide long

So that sentient beings may have a refuge

Those who are foolish and without Wisdom

Those wretched and afflicted

He rescues and helps them to liberation

All guarding the supreme Fruit

_The World-Honored One, the Tamer and Guide

Long abiding in the Great Samādhi

Penetrating the Nature of all Dharmas

The Faculties and the Objects likewise

_The Wisdom-body of the Tathāgata

The mark of the Uṣṇīṣa (the crown protrusion)

Mañjuśrī: the one of Great Wisdom

The Wisdom of Contemplation skillfully gives birth

The subtle and profound meaning

The Great Dharma, the Unequaled Wheel

Good in the beginning, the middle, and the end

The Name and Meaning is supreme

The Buddhas of the past have spoken it

The Buddhas of the future will speak it

The Buddhas of the present, now speak it

Throughout the three times it is thus

Within the great net of Illusion

It is able to deliver the various Classes of beings

_Vajra-pāṇi Bodhisattva

Joyfully 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

Sincerely toward the Perfectly Awakened One (Samyaksaṃbuddha)

Expounding the secret Dharma

Guiding the way for all sentient beings

Arousing the Untainted Wisdom (Anāsravaḥ: free of outflows, free of affliction)

Ending afflictions without remainder

_Vajra-pāṇi Bodhisattva

With palms joined, stood before the Buddha

At that time the Buddha Śākyamuni

The Supreme One Honored among the Two-Legged

The mark of his tongue, words of truth

A sound subtle and pure

Pervading throughout the three realms

With the Brahma Voice (Brahma-ghoṣa) offered praise

"The Tathāgata, the Secret Lord

Proclaims the Great Essential Dharma"

_"Excellent, Vajra-pāṇi!

Excellent, Vajra-pāṇi!

For the sake of bringing benefit

Great Wisdom shall be accomplished

The supreme Great Benefit and Meaning

Eradicating all defilements of sin"

_Mañjuśrī, the one of Great Wisdom

Vows to hear this meaning

"Excellent, Great Teacher!

By skillful means, please proclaim it"

_At that time the Buddha Śākyamuni

Revealed and unfolded the secret Dharma

Embracing and upholding the Great Vidyā-mantra

Which is: 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 Kings

Corresponding without duality

Giving birth to the Gāthā Dharma

Now I shall proclaim it

"Ạt 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 Contemplative Wisdom

The three actions of the Tathāgata turn

The syllable Oṃ, the Vajra-tīkṣṇa (Vajra Sharpness)

Is able to sever suffering and affliction

Mañjuśrī, the Greatly Auspicious

The Wisdom of Wondrous Contemplation

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 birth to the Wisdom of Bodhi

The syllable Āḥ within all things

Is the meaning of the Great Supreme

Giving birth to the Great Sentient Being

Apart from Mind, apart from the marks of speech

With all sounds

All marks of radiant light

_This Mahā, the Great Craving

To which sentient beings cling and are defiled

The Mahā, the Great Hatred

The Cause (Hetu) of all suffering and affliction

The Mahā, the Great Delusion

Penetrating deep into the minds of sentient beings

The Mahā, the Great Wrath

This is the great Enmity and Harm

The Mahā, the Great Love and Delight

Every Attachment to Views (the two afflictions of viewpoint and emotion) of the Mind

_Great Desire and Great Bliss

Great Joy and Great Defilement

Great Form and Great Body

Great Mark and Great Appearance

Great Name and Great Giving

The Great Perfect Place of Enlightenment

Grasping the sword of Great Wisdom

Severing the net of Great Affliction

_Great Manifestation and Great Renown

Great Radiance and Great Brilliance

The Great Illusion as the Illusion-Maker

Accomplishing the meaning of the Great Illusion

_The Great Illusory Transformation defiled by Desire

The net of the Great Illusory Transformation of Views (the conceptions of the great illusory transformation)

Great Giving, supreme and excellent

Great Vigor, valiant and courageous

Great Meditative Concentration, abiding at rest

Great Wisdom giving birth

Great Skillful Means, Great Vow

Great Power and Great Wisdom

_The Dharma of Great Loving-Kindness: No-Self (the absence of a self)

Great Compassion: the profound and wondrous conduct

Great Wisdom: the great valor

Great Giving: the great 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 dispel great terror and dread

The Great Most-Victorious Vidyā-rāja

The Supreme Conduct of the Great Vehicle

Increasing the Dharma of the Great Vehicle

_The Great Vairocana Buddha (Vairocana-buddha)

The Great Silent Muni (Śākyamuni)

Giving birth to the Great Mantra Division

Accomplishing the secret Dharma

Relying on the ten Pāramitās

Cultivating the supreme and excellent Conduct

Attaining the ten Pāramitās (Daśa-pāramitā)

The Gate of the pure Wondrous Dharma

The ten kinds of Pāramitā

The Tathāgata's Fundamental True Wisdom

The sovereign Conduct of the ten Grounds

Securely abiding in the ten Grounds

The pure body of the ten Wisdoms

The accumulation of Merit of the ten Wisdoms

The ten Marks, the ten Benefits and Meanings

The Muni, the One Honored with the Ten Powers

The ten Marks: the vast and great conduct

Encircling all and perfectly complete

The Tathāgata's Pure Body

Neither real nor false

True Speech and Real Speech

Speech of Suchness, Speech without Difference

Not two, nor not-two

Securely abiding in the Reality-Limit of Suchness

Within the meaning of No-Self (the absence of a self)

Just like the lion's roar

His majesty shaking the heterodox paths

The hosts of Māra all terrified

All Conduct of True Emptiness

The Tathāgata personally realizes it

Valiantly destroying enemies and foes

This is called the Most Victorious

The Great-Power Wheel-Turning King

The supremely venerable one

All give rise to a reverent mind

Penetrating the Dharma without distinction

Expounding the teaching of the Great Vehicle

Praising the boundless meaning

The words of the Tathāgata are true

Not real, not false and deceiving

Drawing in the deluded multitude

All attaining the state of non-regression

Śrāvakas and Pratyekabuddhas

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

The many kinds of Emptiness (Śūnya: Voidness) without clinging

Understood and penetrated just as they truly are

The Arhat with outflows exhausted

Attaining the Faculties and Objects free of Desire

Severing the Fetters (bandhana or Saṃjojana) and afflictions (Kleśa)

Without fear (fearless), attaining coolness and clarity

The Tathāgata, the One Free of Attachment

Perfect in Wisdom and Conduct, the Well-Gone One

The Supreme Person of the World

The Tamer, the One Honored with the Ten Epithets

Without Self-Pride (Ātma-māna) or arrogance

The true mind securely abides

Far departed from the place of saṃsāra

For myriads of kalpas cultivating the Supreme Conduct

Having done what was to be done

The mind of Wisdom resolute

_The World-Honored One, the Great Dharma King

Expounding the subtle and wondrous Dharma

Encircling all the World

Teaching and transforming all sentient beings

Using the most supreme and excellent Conduct

Accomplishing all Benefits and Meanings

Acting as the Great Guiding Teacher

Causing them to depart from all doubts

The entire realm of sentient beings

All attaining the secure and peaceful Ground (Bhūmi)

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

Cultivating them as the Treasury of Merit (Puṇya-garbha)

The Pāramitā of Wisdom (Prajñā-pāramitā)

Cultivated as the Treasury of Wisdom (Prajñā-garbha)

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

In accordance, cultivating the two Treasuries

Perfectly practicing all Wholesome deeds (Kuśala)

Always corresponding to all things

The subtle and wondrous intent of Meditative Concentration

Displaying the bodily form 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 illuminating the World

Responding and manifesting all Buddhas

Causing all Wholesome deeds to increase

The power of cultivated Wisdom

Able to sever the cycle of transmigration

The Vajra body, firm and solid

True and beyond all conception

_The Vairocana Buddha (Vairocana-buddha)

Blazing with the light of Great Wisdom

Naturally within empty space

Pouring forth the light of Wisdom

Illuminating all the realms and lands

All the bodies of the Tathāgata (Tathāgata-kāya)

The Vidyā-rāja's Great Divine Mantra

The supreme meaning all accomplished

_The Great Uṣṇīṣa (Mahoṣṇīṣa: the Great Crown Protrusion)

Emitting pure and clear light

Illuminating all the bodies of the Buddhas

Those Buddhas all reverent

The mind gazing in joyful delight

Dignified bearing all complete

Making offerings and all offering praise

The Muni, the Great Golden Immortal

Abiding in the three Mantra Divisions

The Samādhi Mantra manifesting before them

The Three Jewels (Tri-ratna: the three jewels of Buddha, Dharma, Saṅgha) most supreme and excellent

The Three Vehicles (Triṇi-yānāni: Śrāvaka, Pratyekabuddha, Bodhisattva) and the guidance

_The Amoghapāśa Division (Amogha-pāśa-kulāya)

Grasping the Vajra cord

Grasping the Vajra hook

Manifesting the form of wrath

Subduing all the Māra-foes

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

Six faces manifesting six eyes

A single body giving rise to six arms

The mouth protruding great sharp fangs

The hands grasping the Cāmkara

A hundred venomous snakes coiling the arms

Named Yamāntaka

Also named the Hindrance-Removing King

Manifesting a form most terrifying

Grasping the sharp Vajra

The many kinds of differing forms

Emanating the Vajra retinue

Filling all of empty space

_The Great Awe-Inspiring Virtue of Wrath

Acala-nātha Vidyā-rāja (Acala-nātha-vidyā-rāja)

A single tangled and disheveled topknot

His body bearing a great elephant hide

When he utters his great laughing sound

The sound "Ha Ha Hī Hī"

The grasses and trees all tremble

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

_The Vajra King (Vara-rāja): Great Bliss

The Vajra General (Vajra-sena): Great Joy

The Vajra Mantra (Vajra-mantra): Hūṃ Hūṃ

The Vajra Bow (Vajra-dhanus) with Arrows

His hands grasping the Vajra sword

All severing and cutting off affliction

Of use firm, solid, and sharp

This most-victorious Vajra

The Vajra fire blazing brilliantly

The Vajra eyes shining radiantly

The great form-mark of the Vajra

The Vajra fire: a hundred eyes

The Vajra hair sharp and pointed

Manifesting the form of battle

The Vajra manifesting fingered claws

Myriads of firm and sharp tips

The supreme and excellent Vajra garland (the supreme and excellent flower-garland of the Vajra)

The wondrous adornment of the Vajra (the marvelous adornment of the Vajra)

The sound of the Vajra Laughter (the laughter of the Vajra)

The Gate of Syllables has six kinds

The sound of Mañjuśrī (Mañjuśrī)

Penetrating throughout the three realms

Even to the realm of empty space

The sound pervades all

_Just as it truly is, known and penetrated

All Dharmas are No-Self

Apart from letters and words

The same as the True Limit, the Dharma-Nature

Just as the Great Ox King

Roars forth a great sound

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

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

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

Producing a vast and great sound

Not abiding in Nirvāṇa (Nirvāṇa)

Out of compassion for all sentient beings

The realm of empty space in the ten directions

Neither form (Rūpa: material shape, color) nor non-form (Arūpa)

The many kinds of form within the Mind

Able to penetrate all Dharmas

Just like the great round mirror

Illuminating all without remainder

Transforming the hosts of Devas and Humans

In the three realms attaining sovereign freedom

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

Manifesting upon the Dharma banner (Dharma-ketu)

Throughout all the realms of the ten directions

Manifesting the form of a Youth (Kumāra)

Sometimes manifesting the form of a Śramaṇa

Sometimes manifesting the form of an elder

Sometimes the thirty-two marks

Upright, dignified, most subtle and wondrous

_The one of Wisdom and Virtuous Conduct

The Ācārya, the Dharma Master

Delivering all sentient beings

In correspondence 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 (Avidyā)

Crushing and annihilating the Wheel of Transmigration (the cycle of transmigration)

Forever departing from all afflictions

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

_Using the water of Wisdom (Jñāna-jala) to anoint the crown

Adorned with the crown of Wondrous Jewels

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

Departing from all bondage

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

Accomplishing Perfect and Complete Awakening (Samyaksaṃbuddha)

Ever dwelling within the three realms

Bringing benefit to all sentient beings

Perfecting the pure Conduct

Merit and Virtue all increasing

Departing from all clinging existence

Securely abiding in the Limit of True Reality (Suchness)

Holding the Great Wish-Fulfilling Jewel

Acting as the supreme Guiding Teacher

Manifesting the Great Marks in correspondence

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

Abundantly benefiting all sentient beings

Remembering and protecting them as one's own newborn child

_Penetrating the Pure, penetrating the impure

Penetrating the Samādhi of Time-Phases

Thoroughly mastering Right Concentration

Penetrating the faculties and objects of sentient beings

Penetrating Merit, penetrating Dharma

Attaining the three kinds of Liberation

The Auspicious deeds, pure and clear

The mind exultant and joyful

_Five faces with five crowns

Five mountains, marks adorned and arrayed

Great Joy with Great Bliss

Great Celebration with Great Desire

Resolving the true Dharma

The Auspicious Most-Victorious Honored One

Subtle, wondrous, supreme, and excellent Conduct

Benefiting all sentient beings

Subduing the Māra-foes

Eliminating all terror and dread

_Śikhī, Saptakam-ni

Jaṭi with hanging tresses

Shaving the head with the Dhūta practice (Dhūta: a kind of ascetic discipline that removes the dust and defilements 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)

Body smeared with ashes, Gautama

Cultivating and upholding the Great Austerities

Realizing the pure Nirvāṇa

In stillness attaining liberation

Able to uphold the Great Pure Conduct

Peaceful and joyful, without defiled attachment

Resolutely cutting off suffering and pleasure

Far departing from all Desire (Rāga)

Neither losing nor gaining

Neither manifesting nor clinging

All Practices without defilement

This is the Brahmin (Brāhmaṇa)

_The Bodhisattva cultivating Right Conduct

Consciousness pure and without defilement

Departing from defilement, without fear

Skillfully awakening to the Buddha-Nature (Buddhatā)

With Wisdom understanding the Tathāgata Ground (Tathāgata-bhūmi)

Able to know the Dharma of the past

Neither Wisdom (Jñāna) nor Form (Rūpa)

Also without any doubt

Clearly seeing the Buddhas of the three times

The Dharma from of old without clinging

Understanding the Dharma free of bondage

The Wisdom-eye illuminating without obstruction

The Tathāgata's Wondrous Wisdom of Contemplation

Expounding the Dharma, the Sovereign King

Using the supreme meaning of the Dharma

Dispelling all disputes and debates

Like the lion, the king of beasts

Able to subdue the myriad creatures

Sentient beings all admire and look up

The Tathāgata, the mark of veneration

_The Wondrous Wisdom-Light of Mañjuśrī (the Wondrous Wisdom-light of Mañjuśrī)

Brilliantly illuminating all things

The Consecration, the Dharma-King's Son

The Most-Victorious Teacher of Name and Meaning

Able to act as the most excellent medicine

Eliminating all sickness and suffering

The light of the Ūrṇā mark (Ūrṇā: the white tuft of hair coiling to the right between the eyebrows)

Illuminating all the three realms

Even to the lands of the ten directions

Raising aloft everywhere the great Dharma banner

And spreading wide the great parasol and canopy

Acting as the Place of Enlightenment of Loving-Kindness and Compassion

The lotus flower, the great jeweled canopy

Sheltering all the Tathāgatas

The Dharma-Nature (Dharmatā) of all the Buddhas

All Buddhas in correspondence

All Buddhas in equality

This is the most-victorious veneration

_The Vajra-Wisdom Consecration

The Auspicious Sovereign King

The Sovereign of All Worlds

The Most-Victorious Vajra King

The Great Mind of all the Buddhas

The Wisdom-Conduct of all the Buddhas

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

The Wondrous Eloquence (the marvelous deeds) of all the Buddhas

_The Vajra Sun, the great radiance (the vast and great light of the Vajra sun)

The Vajra Moon, the great brilliance (the vast and great brightness of the Vajra moon)

Brilliantly illuminating all

The realms of sentient beings in the ten directions

The Vajra Buddha: firm and solid

The Buddha of the Supreme Meaning: Dharma-born

The Lotus Buddha: auspicious

Accomplishing the All-Knowing Wisdom (Sarva-jña)

The Buddha upholding the Great Illusion Dharma

The Buddha upholding the Great Vidyā-mantra

The Vajra sword, exceedingly sharp

Severing the fetters of affliction

The Dharma, the great vessel of the Vajra

The Dharma, the most-victorious Vajra

Giving birth to the Vajra Wisdom

Perfecting the Pāramitās

The Buddha Ground (Buddha-bhūmi) made an adornment

The pure Dharma, No-Self

_Right Wisdom, the mind understanding clearly

The net of illusion, the many kinds of things

The Vajra is able to sever and remove them

Ending affliction, without remainder

THE SCRIPTURE OF THE MOST-VICTORIOUS NAME AND MEANING SPOKEN BY MAÑJUŚRĪ _VOLUME ONE The End