Toh 662The Dhāraṇī of Vasudhārā
Pāli / Sanskrit:Vasudhārādhāraṇī
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An Exposition of the Vasudhārādhāraṇī Sūtra
A Vajrayāna Esoteric Commentary
Background
The Vasudhārādhāraṇī (The Mantra of the Goddess of Wealth) is an important esoteric scripture in the Vajrayāna tradition, recorded in the Tibetan Kangyur. This scripture belongs to the Tantra class and focuses on practices associated with Vasudhārā—the Trikāya (three-body) Buddha who represents material abundance, spiritual merit, and liberation from poverty within saṃsāra.
In the context of Tibetan Buddhism, Vasudhārā is regarded as a female bodhisattva or a manifestation of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva. This scripture was transmitted from India to Tibet around the eighth to tenth centuries, where it became an exceedingly valuable part of the practices for prosperity and liberation of the mind. The appearance of this scripture reflects practitioners’ need both to cultivate themselves spiritually and to address the material needs of human life.
Main Content
The Vasudhārādhāraṇī Sūtra teaches a mantra and a meditative practice centered on Vasudhārā. According to the Vajrayāna tradition, this mantra is not a plea to or negotiation with a deity, but an activation of the limitless potential within the practitioner’s consciousness, symbolized by the abundance that Vasudhārā represents.
The principal practice includes performing a ritual involving an image of Vasudhārā, reciting the recorded mantras, and practicing meditation through visualization. These mantras do not possess meaning in the ordinary linguistic sense, but are sacred sounds capable in themselves of transforming the practitioner’s consciousness.
The scripture teaches that through these practices, practitioners can overcome a mentality of poverty and deprivation and thereby enter the state of a bodhisattva—manifesting selflessness and realizing the true nature of all phenomena. At the heart of the scripture is the recognition that blessings are not external material things bestowed from above, but the inevitable result of a purified mind and upright conduct.
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