Toh 577The Noble “Dhāraṇī of ‘The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines’ ”

Summary

This text consists of a short dhāraṇī said to encompass The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines
(Toh 9) and the benefits of its recitation.

Acknowledgements

The text was translated from Tibetan by the Buddhapīṭha Translation Group
(Gergely Hidas and Péter-Dániel Szántó).

The translation was completed under the patronage and supervision of
84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. Andreas Doctor edited the
translation and the introduction, and Laura Goetz copyedited the text. Martina Cotter was in charge of the digital publication process.

Introduction

This text consists of a short dhāraṇī said to encompass The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand
Lines

and the benefits of its recitation.

Such short texts served a variety of purposes, the primary one being
that by reciting them one could acquire the positive karmic benefits of
reciting an entire, sometimes extremely long, text. On a practical level,
the recitation of these short texts also served as an equivalent to the
recitation of the parent text, should a prescribed ritual so require.

This translation was made principally on the basis of the Tibetan
translations of the text found in the Tantra Collection (rgyud ’bum) and the Compendium of Dhāraṇīs
(gzungs ’dus) in the Degé Kangyur in
consultation with the Sanskrit as contained in The
Perfection of Wisdom “Kauśika.”

The Translation

The Dhāraṇī of “The Perfection of Wisdom in

Twenty-Five Thousand Lines”

Homage to the Blessed Lady, the Mother Perfection of Wisdom.

tadyathā—oṃ prajñe
mahāprajñe
prajñāvabhāse prajñāvalokite sarvadharmāndhakāravidhamane siddhe susiddhe sidhyantu
māṃ bhagavati sarvajñānasaṃdhāre bhagavati vatsale prasāritahaste mama sukara siddhi siddhi
buddha buddha kampa kampa pāla pāla dhara
dhara vara vara garja garja āgaccha āgaccha bhagavati mā vilamba
svāhā!

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Bibliography

Tibetan Sources

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