佛吉祥德讚

I take refuge in the one whose voice is the Lion's roar

Who brings forth all wholesome deeds

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

The Unconquered Wisdom that beholds all things

Skillfully teaching sentient beings without limit of time

Again expounding the many Dharma-gates

First shattering utterly the egg of ignorance

Accordingly understanding clearly all those dharmas

Clearly knowing sentient beings, the one of Great Rectitude

The subtle and wondrous awakening, the master of all dharmas

In the principle of non-self he has clearly understood

Skillfully understanding that all karmas are self-nature

Clearly knowing all divided realms

Clearly knowing arising and ceasing, their nature from of old

In all the dharmas of suffering, clear as they truly are

Skillfully understanding the true self-natures

Skillfully able to awaken without disturbance

The self-nature of the world he fully understands

Destroying evil views, his wisdom opening to brightness

Clearly knowing all causes and effects

Clearly knowing the marks of the three realms, departing from them

Therefore he must cultivate all the deeds hard to do

His body never weary, grasping at marks gone

Even the smallest dharmas he does not forsake

With ultimate skillful means he gathers and transforms

Proclaiming the Middle Way, the gates of all dharmas

Excellent indeed is Lord Śākyamuni

I bow, take refuge, and make offering

Supreme is the speech of the one of stillness

Supreme, most victorious, my Teacher

Skillfully gathering sentient beings, their minds all joyful

In all things and their marks he does not grasp

Complete in the two kinds, worthy of praise

Skillfully accomplishing the Four Means of Gathering

The Six Harmonies, reverence for the Dharma, skillfully proclaimed

The Six Constant Practices, fully accomplished

Establishing deep and far the Right View

Attaining those samādhis, skillful and serene

In that wholesome Dharma the mind is not let loose

The certain realization of Buddhahood prior at the place of awakening

Clearly knowing deep and far the master of the right path

Opening deep and far the bright illumining wisdom

Therein no seeking, no inferior path

I bow my head to the Tathāgata, the one who has realized

The gathered one of wisdom in clear understanding

The subtle, deep, and far—all fully known

Revealing the two kinds of the realm of Nirvāṇa

Fully realizing all the paths of Nirvāṇa

Sentient beings, through the long night, give rise to falsehood

The Buddha by skillful means speaks, with no false dharma

Sentient beings drift and float in the mire of birth-and-death

The Buddha for their sake extends his hand, skillfully delivering them

Sentient beings, according to their lot, dwell in evil realms

The Buddha by skillful means rescues them from peril

These sentient beings give rise to fear

The Buddha for their sake points to the place of no fear

Of himself complete in vast and great spiritual power

His body manifesting all beautiful marks

Within, his mind precious, wholesome, full of brightness

Solely expounding the right Dharma, hard to be matched

The Buddha does not subdue others for his own sake

None at all can be other than the Buddha

Abiding in all places of joy

The Buddha's marks are all complete

Unsurpassed wondrous conduct, performed in truth

Like a blossoming lotus, wisdom pure

The accumulated holy life, exhausted without remainder

I bow my head to the holy life he has established

Solely aiding the world, the master of the Vedas

Not destroying anything, teaching the holy Dharma

Washing away all defiling sins

Attaining the foremost, supreme Dharma

Skillfully able to accomplish the Dharma that powerfully removes

Skillfully able to point the way to stillness

The Guide reveals the gate of skillful joy

The wilderness of saṃsāra he makes a good road

Ever apart from all places of darkness

Opening the divine eye that ever observes

Ultimate, undefiled, the one of purity

Sin and merit unmoved, accomplishing liberation

Able in his own body to contemplate the nature of emptiness

Craving and views utterly ended, skillful and undefiled

In the realm of desire he leaves behind the mind's conceiving

Apart from defiling afflictions and discrimination

His mind again serene amid his work

Naturally within the Dharma attaining liberation

The supreme and serene Great Muni

All pure, the one without defilement

His world-transcending merit truly vast and great

Skillfully giving the world a great light

The world, in its realm of falsehood, ever deludedly contemplates

Conceiving all dharmas as full of truth

The cord of craving severed, his spiritual powers complete

Skillfully bringing forth the great radiance of wisdom

Destroying all their minds of grasping and defilement

In all his joyful intentions, pure

The Tathāgata has departed from all error

Therefore one must reverently bow and make offering

Removing all dharmas unbeneficial and evil

All conjoined with benefit

The Buddha is the good friend of sentient beings

The footless and the two-footed, the foremost

Abiding in mindful wisdom amid all natures

Skillfully complete, never forgetting that Dharma

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

Harmoniously relying yet not clinging

The fear of this shore of birth-and-death already removed

He should realize Nirvāṇa, the bliss of the further shore

The Buddha skillfully relies upon the proper right path

Listening, his mind neither erring nor diminishing

Among all the pure ones, the Buddha is highest

Vast and great in form and marks, his wisdom-radiance shining

The world is drowned in the savor of desire

The Buddha's wisdom has ever skillfully gone far from it

With wisdom he praises the gate of Nirvāṇa

I bow my head to the Tathāgata who speaks with certainty

Seeing undefiled and thinking undefiled

Undefiled speech together with undefiled karma

Undefiled livelihood together with undefiled diligence

Undefiled mindfulness together with undefiled concentration

Undefiled liberation, undefiled wisdom

In morality, concentration, and wisdom skillfully abiding

All fetters wholly severed and removed

Destroying the afflictions amid inversion

The Tathāgata, where the holy life is born

Has dwelt in the truly cool ground

In all his deeds the one of stillness

Undefiled by the world, the one revered and beloved

Again able to sever the five lower fetters

Again able to fulfill the six-part Dharma

Giving rise to the one impartial mind that guards mindfulness

The four intentions accomplished, again without lack

Pure and single, true, with no other thought

Impartially giving and relinquishing love in the world

Without error, his thinking a true and right mind

Again attaining ease in all places

A mind well liberated, a wisdom well liberated

Pure and single in the holy life, skillfully established

The Tathāgata, supreme 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

Departing from name and mark, the gate of stations

Name, mark, and station all stilled

Skillfully seeing the mind able to quench the fire of desire

The realm of desire, craving, and defilement all removed

In those desires and defilements he leaves behind grasping consciousness

And leaves behind all the faults of desire

Skillfully cultivating the seven kinds of contemplation

Skillfully expounding the Dharma-gate of the limbs of awakening

In all things excelling far beyond others

The Buddha is the valiant and fearless one

Apart from delusion, severing defilement, surpassing all

The power of morality increasing, the lake without fault

Fully endowed, his good wisdom subtle and wondrous

Gathering within all merits

Without doubt, apart from defilement, ever joyful and content

Again halting the world's many roots of falsehood

The Great Śramaṇa's work already accomplished

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

The Buddha, surpassing the Manu, foremost of all

I bow my head to the Tathāgata beyond compare

With right mindfulness able to contemplate all awakenings

Not for the sake of subduing others does he subdue them

Again attaining stillness with nothing to be done

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

Immeasurably deep and far, abiding in silence

Right wisdom ever practiced, conduct of bliss

Like this Dharma and discipline, truly dignified

I bow my head to the one of solemn body and serene mind

His practices complete, his speech excellent

His body manifesting the dhūta austerities, marks hard to achieve

His words without frivolous talk, abiding in right truth

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

The Tathāgata lofty and again sovereign

Like Śakra amid the heavenly realm

Inclining toward the right and skillful contemplation

His language humble yet gentle

All purity, truly pure

Skillfully loving without attachment, vastly pure

His merit matured, his provisions complete

I bow my head to the one who has come to the highest

The Buddha is the supreme Sage-King

Broadly accumulating merit, full and undiminished

His pure conduct already complete, deceit already removed

I bow my head to right enlightenment amid radiance

His body and mind pure and again gentle

Halting all enmities

Of serene and great wisdom, the master of great wisdom

The root of wrath and anger removed, ever joyful

Among those sentient beings, hard is it to be his equal

Beyond reckoning, apart from all defilements

In his body penetrating, without doubt

I bow my head to the Able Man, the master of Skillful Understanding

Teaching and taming, surpassing all

Unsurpassed and lovely, creating radiance

Without seeking, without pride, without attached craving

I bow my head to the one without madness, the pure one

Already apart from darkness, with nothing defiled

Among sentient beings he is the supreme

And straightway attains the great renown of skillful stillness

I bow my head to the one without attachment, without bonds

Delusion and clinging long ago departed

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

The beginning, middle, and end all good, the Dharma proclaimed

Good in letter, good in meaning, all complete

Toward suffering sentient beings, never weary

By the Buddha's skillful means he therefore rests

Sentient beings of no realm must be made to depart far

The Buddha by skillful means makes them depart far

The Tathāgata does not abide in the dharma of cessation

Ever practicing rescue and deliverance, gathering the world

And again in that vast and great Dharma-gate

I bow my head to the great wisdom that broadly gathers all

Halting the false discriminations

Skillfully departing from all seeking of the immortals' path

Casting off all evil dharmas, manifesting as the worthy man

Departing from the seven kinds of defilement, accomplishing the holy life

Like space, in no place can it be defiled

Pure, ever relying upon the holy life

Only removing defiling dharmas, understanding 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

Right wisdom deep and profound, the master of valiant strength

Within the gate of Auspiciousness, the one of fine body

I bow my head to the great compassion, inconceivable

In all his deeds, self-penetrating power

That feeble one he is able to aid in cultivation

Those who are good and fair he all accords with

The Buddha is the body of Vajra, firm and solid

Born from the truth

Abiding in all places as is fitting

Attaining Great Nirvāṇa, the place of utmost bliss

The Tathāgata has attained the great benefit

Relinquishing his solitary bliss yet undefiled

Leading the world into the place of peace and security

Broadly, for sentient beings' sake, expounding the right path

I take refuge in the master of great awakening

Manifesting realization of the path of right enlightenment

Those who do not cultivate the holy life

The Buddha skillfully establishes them

The Buddha is the master of the path of wisdom

The path of consciousness, the master who expounds the path

The Buddha is the master of the right path

To which all roads converge

The Buddha is born from the place of brightness

And again born from wisdom

Born of meaning and born of Dharma

Skillfully expounding the ultimate meaning

When all meanings come forth

Among men, the great Lion

Among men, the master like the dragon and elephant

Among men, the great Sage

Among men, the master of right knowledge

Among men, the master of Wise Valor

Among men, surpassing and hard to match

Among men, truly the highest

Among men, the master excellent and wondrous

Among men, the white lotus

Without alarm and without fear

Without anxiety and without dread

The Buddha is the one apart from anxiety

Without fear and again without contention

Terror and dire peril, none

Severing and ceasing those fears so hard

Himself departing from the realm of fear

And again making others depart as well

Himself severing and ceasing fear

And again making others also attain the path

Himself crossing the sea of suffering's strait

And again making others also cross

Departing from the body's destiny, rejoicing

Departing from the body's destiny, sorrow and anxiety

The Buddha, surpassing, cannot be matched

And again cannot be compared

His merit hard to praise in full

Passing beyond the place of praise

And again his form cannot be grasped

And again it cannot all be discriminated

Surpassing all other sentient beings

Only one and not two

The Buddha is the Spontaneous Wisdom

And none can be compared with him

Broadly, for all sentient beings' sake

I bow my head to the All-Knowing One

Among gods and men in the world

Subduing Māra together with the Śramaṇas

The Buddha is the supreme

And again none surpasses him above

The Buddha, precious and rare

And yet truly hard to attain

To meet a Buddha, rarely arising in the world

Truly rare and hard to encounter

He is truly the master of the holy eye

And again, for the sake of the great light

The great good and shining brightness

The great lamp of great radiance

Not dark, blazing with great light

And again attaining the supreme Dharma

The faculties, powers, and limbs of the path complete

Not shared with the Śrāvakas

If not for the sake of benefit

The Tathāgata would not be born

Without benefit he does not appear

Without benefit he again does not rest

The Buddha, for the sake of all the multitude of beings

For their benefit therefore appears

With compassion for the world

Performing all beneficial deeds

Amid gods and men

The Buddha is the master of right view

Using the right path and discipline-Dharma

To teach them all

And again amid that assembly

The Buddha, the place of reverence and love

Or giving rise to a mind of reverence and love

Creating contemplation of veneration

The Buddha is the place of intimacy

And accordingly with respect

Bowing in reverence, seeing the True Suchness

The auspicious, supreme jewel

The Buddha's eye of wisdom shines and illumines

And again is born from the eye of wisdom

Kindling the lamp of wisdom

Guarding the brightness of that great wisdom

Lighting the lamp of wisdom that shines and illumines

The great wisdom destroying the place of darkness

The self-mastery of all natures

The Tathāgata illumines them all clearly

The Tathāgata's faculty of wisdom is excellent

Subtle, wondrous, and again supreme

The Tathāgata's power of great wisdom

Cannot be subdued

Storing the inexhaustible treasure of wisdom

Filled with the priceless jewel of wisdom

Bearing the keen blade of beneficial wisdom

Grasping the staff of wisdom

And again hurling forth the sword of wisdom

His wisdom neither falling nor diminishing

Skillful wisdom opening right wisdom

Clearly knowing all dharmas

His wisdom vast, like a palace

Right wisdom, the place where he abides

Firm wisdom is the wall

Its circuit all sealed and guarded

Inconceivable right wisdom

For advancing onward in succession

Unable to be subdued, surpassing all

With no other mind, abiding

Not subdued by others

And again with no place of grasping

Yet within those three realms

He is the one worthy to be offered to

Manifestly observing all

In all things with nothing clung to

What should be understood, he understands

What should be departed from, he departs from

What should be attained, straightway attained

The good deeds to be done, already done

This matter brought to fullness

For the sake of teaching the world

The Buddha is the Great Holy One

His vigor never before existing

Already established in purity

Rare and vast, the great deed

Manifestly realizing the supreme path

The rare Dharma hard to conceive

Straightway attaining the supreme place

Drinking the sweet water of Nirvāṇa

Plucking out the root of the net of craving

Cutting off all the roots of error

Skillfully acting, without difference

The undefiled Dharma he can adhere to

Skillful in arising and skillful in essence

Excellently going forth into homelessness

His roots of goodness again attaining utterly

I bow my head to the one who has arrived

Unmoving, inconceivable

The wise one among the wise

Flattery, crookedness, and error and defilement removed

And again crossing the sea of afflictions

Conjoined with the practice of liberation

Liberating from all the bonds

And again attaining a mind without grasping

And again exhausting all outflows

And again exhausting all errors

And again expelling all poisons

And again severing all hindrances

Utterly burning the nets of views

These are the words of falsehood

And the false views of 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 skillfully expounds

Relying upon purity, unbound

In all places of reliance

Those not yet rescued, he rescues again

Those not yet returned, he makes return

Those with no place to go, he gives a direction

The Buddha for their sake creates a direction

Having crossed the sea of birth-and-death

Pervasively entering all realms

The places fitting for manifestation and transformation

To all of them he should come

Those who fall into evil realms

The Buddha ever understands, ever considers

And straightway takes the skillful means

To universally deliver the multitude of beings

Without greed and without anger

Without delusion, his roots of goodness complete

His great body ever abiding in the body

Compassionate and beneficial

His body clothed in Śākya's robe

Broadly performing good and wholesome deeds

Rare is his power of vigor

Of great wisdom, the master who understands rightly

Morality, patience, and the dharma of truth

His inner mind ever pure

Vast and great and deep and far

Complete in all merits

His radiance shining clearly

Taming the mind, pure and clear

A well of water deep and truly clear

The wholesome seed manifesting in full

The world's pure eye

The fair blue Utpala flower

Vast and great and beautiful

Pervading throughout the ten directions

Silent, his nature bright and fair

The fair moon of all wisdom

The Buddha's virtue vast and measureless

Therefore do I offer praise.

Praise of the Auspicious Virtue of the Buddha

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