Toh 581The Dhāraṇī for Obtaining the Ten Perfections

Summary

This text presents a single dhāraṇī for the attainment of the ten perfections.

Acknowledgements

This publication was completed under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.

The text was translated, edited, and introduced by the 84000 translation team. Paul G. Hackett produced the translation and wrote the introduction. Rory Lindsay edited the
translation and the introduction, and Dawn Collins copyedited the text. Sameer Dhingra was in charge of the digital publication process.

Introduction

This text presents a single dhāraṇī for the attainment of the ten perfections that does not appear to be
contained in any other canonical text. No additional explanation is given, although in Meisezahl’s manuscript the dhāraṇī is followed by a “confession and purification”
(gso sbyong) ritual. The text appears to be a more condensed version of the dhāraṇī for the six individual perfections
presented in Toh 580, and an alternate version of the idea set forth in Toh 579. No Sanskrit title is provided for this text, and its title is given on the basis of the Tibetan
alone.

This translation of the text into English relied primarily on the Degé recension while referring to variant readings in other recensions as noted in the Comparative
Edition (dpe bsdur ma) and validated in the source texts—notably Narthang. No previous translation of this text into a language outside the Tibetan sphere of
influence is known. Meisezahl (1957) provides a diplomatic edition of the dhāraṇī found in the Linden Museum Tibetan collection.

The Translation

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The Dhāraṇī for Obtaining the Ten Perfections

By hearing this essence mantra of the ten perfections, even one time, one will obtain the ten perfections:

namas saptānām tathāgatānām daśapāramitāparipūrakānām hrīḥ |

This completes “The Dhāraṇī for Obtaining the Ten Perfections.”

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