Kim Cang Đỉnh Du Già Tối Thắng Bí Mật Thành Phật Tuỳ Cầu Tức Đắc Thần Biến Gia Trì Thành Tựu Đà La Ni Nghi Quỹ

At that time, the Bodhisattva Extinguishing Evil Destinies rose from his seat in the great assembly of Vairocana Buddha, respectfully joined his palms, and addressed the Buddha: “World-Honored One! For sentient beings in the evil destinies of the defiled world during the future Dharma-ending age, I teach the dharani for extinguishing offenses and attaining Buddhahood, whereby they cultivate the gate of the Three Mysteries, realize the Samadhi of Recollection of the Buddha, and attain rebirth in the Pure Land. By what skillful means may sentient beings burdened by grave offenses be rescued from suffering and given happiness? I wish to relieve all sentient beings of their afflictions.”

The Buddha then told the Bodhisattva Extinguishing Evil Destinies: “For sentient beings who know neither repentance nor shame, who hold wrong views and behave heedlessly, there is no Dharma by which they may be rescued. While alive, they undergo manifold hardships; after death, they fall into the Avici Hell. They cannot even hear the name of the Three Jewels, much less see a Buddha. How, then, could they obtain a human body?”

The Bodhisattva Extinguishing Evil Destinies again addressed the Buddha: “The Tathagata’s skillful means are immeasurable, and his spiritual powers are inexhaustible. I pray that the World-Honored One teach a secret Dharma to rescue beings from suffering. The Buddha is the father and mother of all sentient beings. Please teach sentient beings in the world of the five defilements the Dharma by which Buddhahood is assured.”

The Buddha told the Bodhisattva Extinguishing Evil Destinies: “I possess a secret Dharma, exceedingly rare in the world, the foremost and most excellent Dharma for extinguishing offenses and attaining Buddhahood. It is called the Wish-Fulfilling Mantra of Immediate Attainment. If someone merely hears the title of this mantra for the first time, approaches a person who recites its title, or stays in the same place as one who recites its title, all heavenly maras, evil spirits, and benevolent spirit-kings will come to protect that person.

Even if that person eats the five pungent plants, meat, or fish, or engages in sexual misconduct with sisters, any women, or female animals, the Vinayakas will still be unable to create obstacles. Instead, they will all comply with and protect that person day and night, eliminating calamities and bringing peace and security—how much more so if one personally recites it.

“If one recites it in full, all grave offenses are extinguished and immeasurable merit is acquired. At death, one will certainly be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss. Even one who has committed extremely grave offenses will not fall into hell.

Though one has killed one’s father or mother, killed an arhat, disrupted the harmony of the Sangha, shed the blood of a Buddha, burned sutras or sacred images, defiled a monastery, slandered others, disparaged the teachings, praised oneself and disparaged others—even after committing such offenses, one will assuredly be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss, attain the highest grade of rebirth, and be born by transformation within a lotus, never again being born from a womb.

Those who attain Buddhahood swiftly do so because they heard this mantra in the past; those who attain Buddhahood slowly do so because, life after life, they have not heard it.

“If a man, woman, boy, or girl upholds the title of this mantra, that person will enjoy peace and happiness, be free of illness, possess a strong and healthy appearance, have perfect auspiciousness, and attain accomplishment in every mantra Dharma. If the title of this mantra, or one phrase, two phrases, up to ten phrases, or one complete recitation of the mantra, is placed within jade, gold, silver, or vaidurya and worn around the neck or upon the head, then although that person has not entered a mandala, that person immediately becomes one who has entered every mandala, a fellow practitioner of all who have entered the mandala, and the equal of the Buddhas, without distinction.

That person will have no evil dreams, and grave offenses will be extinguished. If anyone with malicious intent approaches that person, no harm can be done, and all undertakings will be accomplished.”

The Buddha then spoke the Universally Pervading, Blazing, Perfect, Pure, Flourishing, Contemplative Jewel-Seal Heart, Invincible, All-Retaining Great Wish-Fulfilling Dharani:

Nẵng mồ tát phạ đát tha nghiệt đá nẫm (Homage to Vairocana Buddha, whose bodily, verbal, and mental karma pervades empty space, proclaiming the Tathagata’s secret gate, the adamantine One Vehicle, the exceedingly profound teaching).

Nẵng mồ nẵng mạc tát phạ một đà mạo địa tát đát-phạ tỳ-dược (Homage to the mind of original awakening, the eternally abiding Dharma-body, the wondrous Dharma, the lotus dais of mind, originally adorned with the virtues of the three bodies; the thirty-seven honored ones abide in the mind-city, the dust-mote-like universal gates and samadhis transcend cause and effect, naturally possessing a boundless ocean of virtues and being originally perfect and complete; thus I bow to the mind of all Buddhas).

Một đà đạt ma tăng chi tỳ-dược (Namo Bodhisattva Extinguishing Evil Destinies, who enables sentient beings throughout the dharmadhatu to leave suffering and attain happiness, rescuing beings in the three evil paths from suffering and giving them joy).

Đát nhĩ dã tha (The introductory words of reverence).

Úm, vĩ bổ lã nghiệt bệ (May the four benefactors of the past attain the Buddha Way).

Vĩ bổ la vĩ ma lệ (May all sentient beings’ offenses be extinguished).

Nhạ dã nghiệt bệ (Bestow the wish-fulfilling jewel upon all sentient beings).

Phạ nhựt ra nhập-phạ la nghiệt bệ (Cut off the afflictions of all sentient beings).

Nga để nga ha ninh (Fulfill all that sentient beings seek).

Nga nga nẵng vĩ thú đạt ninh (Compassionately shelter and protect all sentient beings).

Úm, tát phạ bá bả vĩ thú đạt ninh (Compassionately shelter and protect all sentient beings in worlds without a Buddha).

Úm, ngu rô noa phạ để nga nga lị ni (Cut off the suffering of womb birth for all sentient beings).

Nghĩ lị, nghĩ lị nghiêm ma lị nghiêm ma lị (Bestow food and drink upon all sentient beings).

Ngược hạ ngược hạ (Bestow clothing upon all sentient beings).

Nghiệt nga lị nghiệt nga lị (Enable all sentient beings to perfect the Dana Paramita).

Nghiêm ma lị nghiêm ma lị (Enable all sentient beings to perfect the Kshanti Paramita).

Nga để nga để nga nga nĩnh nga lệ (Enable all sentient beings to perfect the Virya Paramita).

Ngu rô ngu rô nĩ (Enable all sentient beings to perfect the Dhyana Paramita).

Tả lê, a tả lê (Enable all sentient beings to perfect the Prajna Paramita).

Mẫu tả lê nhạ duệ vĩ nhạ duệ (Enable all sentient beings to perfect the Paramita of Skillful Means).

Tát phạ bà dã vĩ nga đế nghiệt bà tam bà la ni (Enable all sentient beings to perfect the Paramita of Vows).

Tất lị tất lị nhĩ lị kỳ lị kỳ lị tam mãn đá ca ra-sát ni (Enable all sentient beings to perfect the Paramita of Power).

Tát phạ thiết đốt-rô bát-ra mạt tha nĩnh (Enable all sentient beings to perfect the Paramita of Knowledge).

Ra khất-sái ra khất-sái (Accomplishment).

Ma ma (Ultimate consummation).

Tát phạ tát đát-phạ nan tả (Enable all sentient beings to be free from enmity).

Vĩ lị vĩ lị vĩ nga đá phạ ra noa ba dã nẵng xả nĩnh (Enable all sentient beings to be free from greed and delusion).

Tô lị tô lị tức lị kiếm ma lê (Enable all sentient beings swiftly to leave the deluded mind).

Vĩ ma lê (Enable all sentient beings to be free from the suffering of food shortages).

Nhạ duệ nhạ dã phạ hề nhạ dạ (Enable all sentient beings to be free from the suffering of floods).

Phạ để bà nga phạ để (Enable all sentient beings to be free from the suffering of fire).

Ra đát-nẵng ma củ tra ma la đà lị ni, phạ hộ vĩ vĩ đà vĩ tức đát-ra (Enable all sentient beings to be free from the suffering caused by warfare and bandits).

Phệ sái rô bả đà lị bà nga phạ để ma hạ vĩ nhĩ-dã nễ vĩ (May the bodies and minds of all sentient beings be peaceful and secure).

Ra khất-sái, ra khất-sái (Accomplishment).

Ma ma (Ultimate consummation).

Tát phạ tát đát-phạ nan tả (Enable the parents of all sentient beings in past lives to attain Buddhahood).

Tam mãn đá tát phạ đát-ra (Enable the parents of all sentient beings through seven generations to attain Buddhahood).

Tát phạ bá bả vĩ thú đà nĩnh (Enable the parents of all sentient beings forever to cut off the suffering of birth and death).

Hộ rô hộ rô (May the parents of all sentient beings have long lives).

Nặc khất-sát đát-ra (May all sentient beings be free from illness).

Ma ra đà lị ni (Enable all sentient beings to arouse bodhicitta).

Ra khất-sái, ra khất-sái (Accomplishment).

Mãm (Certainty).

Ma ma (Ultimate consummation).

A nẵng tha tả đát-ra noa bả ra dã noa tả (Extinguish the offense of killing).

Bả lị mô tả dã minh tát phạ nhục khế tỳ-dược tán ni (Extinguish the offense of stealing).

Tán ni tán ni nĩnh phệ nga phạ để (Extinguish the offense of sexual misconduct).

Tát phạ nột sắt-tra nỉnh phạ la ni thiết đốt-lỗ bạc khất-sái bát-la mạt tha nĩnh vĩ nhạ dã phạ hế nĩnh (Extinguish the offense of false speech).

Hộ rô hộ rô (Extinguish the offense of trading in intoxicants).

Tổ rô tổ rô (Extinguish the offense of praising oneself and disparaging others).

A dục bá la nĩnh tô ra phạ ra mạt tha nĩnh (Extinguish the offense of stinginess and greed).

Tát phạ nễ phạ đá bố tư đế (Extinguish the offense of anger and hatred).

Địa lị địa lị (Extinguish the offense of slander).

Tam mãn đá phạ lộ chỉ đế (Extinguish the offense of drinking intoxicants).

Bát-ra bệ bát-ra bệ (Extinguish the offense of eating the five pungent plants).

Tố bát-ra bà vĩ thuấn đệ (Extinguish the offense of harming and eating birds and fish).

Tát phạ bá bả vĩ thú đà ninh (Extinguish the offense of breaking the precepts and restore complete precepts).

Đạt ra đạt ra đạt ra ni, đạt ra đạt lệ (Extinguish the offense of failing to teach).

Tô mẫu tô mẫu (Extinguish the offenses of the three poisons).

Rô rô tả lê (Extinguish the offenses of the three outflows).

Tả lã dã nộ sắt-kham bố ra dã (Extinguish the offenses of the three falsities).

Minh a thiêm (Extinguish the offenses of the three realms of existence).

Thất-lị phạ bổ đà nan nhạ dã kiếm ma lê (Extinguish the offenses of the four abodes of consciousness).

Khất-sử ni, khất-sử ni (Extinguish the offenses of the four floods).

Phạ ra nễ phạ ra năng củ thế (Extinguish the offenses of the four graspings).

Úm bát nạp-ma vĩ thuấn đệ (Extinguish the offenses of the four retributions).

Thú đà dã thú đà dã vĩ thuấn đệ (Extinguish the offenses of the four conditions).

Bả ra bả ra (Extinguish the offenses of the four great elements).

Tị lị tị lị (Extinguish the offenses of the four bonds).

Bộ rô bộ rô (Extinguish the offenses of the four nutriments).

Mộng nga la vĩ thuấn đệ (Extinguish the offenses of the four modes of birth).

Bả vĩ đát-ra mục khí (Extinguish the offenses of the five abiding grounds).

Kiệt nghĩ ni, kiệt nghĩ ni (Extinguish the offenses of the five faculties of sensation).

Khứ ra khứ ra (Extinguish the offenses of the five hindrances).

Nhập-phạ lị đa thỉ lệ (Extinguish the offenses of the five obduracies).

Tam mãn đa bát-ra sa lị đá (Extinguish the offenses of the five views).

Phạ bà tất đa thuấn đệ (Extinguish the offenses of the five minds).

Nhập-phạ la, nhập-phạ la (Extinguish the offenses of the clouded faculties of sentient beings).

Tát phạ nễ phạ nga noa (Extinguish the offenses of the six consciousnesses).

Tam ma ca ra-sái ni (Extinguish the offenses of the six characteristics).

Tát để-dã phạ đế (Extinguish the offenses of the six cravings).

Đa ra (Extinguish the offenses of the six activities).

Đá ra dã mãm (Extinguish the offenses of the six cravings).

Nẵng nga vĩ lộ chỉ đế lã hộ lã hộ (Extinguish the offenses of the six doubts).

Hộ nỗ hộ nỗ (Extinguish the offenses of the seven outflows).

Khất-sử ni, khất-sử ni (Extinguish the offenses of the seven doubts).

Tát phạ ngật-ra hạ bạc khất-sái ni (Extinguish the offenses of the eight inversions).

Thủy nghiệt lị, thủy nghiệt lị (Extinguish the offenses of the eight sufferings).

Tổ mẫu tổ mẫu, tố mẫu tố mẫu (Extinguish the offenses of the eight defilements).

Tố vĩ tả lệ (Extinguish the offenses of the nine vexations).

Đa ra đa ra, nẵng nga vĩ lộ chỉ nĩnh (Extinguish the offenses of the nine modes of governance).

Đá ra dã dổ mãm (Extinguish the offenses of the nine conditions).

Bà nga phạ để (Extinguish the offenses of the ten afflictions).

A sắt-tra ma ha đát rô ná bà duệ tỳ-dược (Extinguish the offenses of the ten bonds).

Tam mẫu nại-ra ta nga ra (Extinguish the offenses of the eleven pervasive agents).

Bát lị-diễn đảm (Extinguish the offenses of the sixteen views and modes of knowledge).

Bát đá lã nga nga nẵng đát lam (Extinguish the offenses of the eighteen dhatus).

Tát phạ đát-ra tam mãn đế nẵng (The twenty-five selves).

Trị xả mãn đệ nẵng phạ nhật-ra bát-ra ca ra (The sixty views).

Phạ nhật-ra bá xả, mãn diên ninh nẵng (The ninety-eight latent tendencies abandoned through seeing truth and cultivation, and the one hundred and eight afflictions).

Phạ nhật-ra nhập-phạ la vĩ thuấn đệ (The two wisdoms, illumination, and the three pure waves).

Bộ lị bộ li (Expand the four immeasurable minds).

Nghiệt bệ phạ để (The fivefold four abiding leaves).

Nghiệt bà vĩ thú đà nĩnh (The four evil destinies are extinguished, and the four fearlessnesses attained).

Cộc khất-sử tam bố ra ni (Liberate beings from the five paths).

Nhập-phạ la nhập-phạ la (Embrace the five faculties).

Tả ra tả ra (Purify the five eyes).

Nhập-phạ lị nĩnh (Accomplish the fivefold Dharma-body).

Bát-ra vạt sái đổ nễ phạ (Fully possess the six spiritual powers).

Tam mãn đế nẵng (Perfect the karma of the six paramitas).

Nễ nhĩ-dữu ná kế nẵng (Remain undeluded by the six sense objects).

A mật-lật đa phạ ra-sái ni (Constantly practice the six wondrous practices).

Nễ phạ đá phạ đá ra ni (Life after life, sit upon the seven pure flowers).

A tị sẩn tả đổ minh tô nga đa phạ ra phạ tả nẵng (Wash away dust with the eight waters).

A mật lật đa phạ ra phạ bổ sái (Possess the nine knowledges of cessation).

Ra khất-sái, ra khất-sái (Accomplishment).

Ma ma (Ultimate consummation).

Tát phạ tát đát-phạ nan tả (Accomplish the practices of the lower grounds).

Tát phạ đát-ra tát phạ na (Through understanding the eleven kinds of emptiness, constantly employ them to master the mind freely).

Tát phạ bà duệ tỳ-dược (Able to turn the two middle Wheels of Practice).

Tát mạo bát nại-ra phệ tỳ-dược (Fully possess the eighteen distinctive qualities of a Buddha).

Tát mạo bả dược nghê tỳ-dược (Perfect immeasurable virtues of every kind).

Tát phạ nộ sắt-tra bà dã tị đát tả (Life after life, cut off the obstruction of arrogance).

Tát phạ ca lị ca ra ha (Exhaust the waters of craving and desire).

Vĩ nghiệt-ra hạ vĩ phạ na (Extinguish the flames of anger and hatred).

Nộ sa-phạ bả-nan nột ra nĩnh nhĩ đá mộng nghiệt-lý dã lô già dã bả vĩ nẵng xả nĩnh (Forever uproot and cut off deluded thought).

Tát phạ dược khất-xoa ra khất-xoa bà (Rend the net of all views).

Nẵng nga nĩnh phạ ra ni (Skillfully cultivate the enduring path of causes).

Tát ra ni tát lệ ma la ma la ma la phạ để (Correctly proceed toward bodhi).

Nhạ dã nhạ dã nhạ dã đổ mãm (Accomplish the thirty-seven aids to enlightenment).

Tát phạ đát-ra tát phạ ca lam (Attain the vajra body).

Tất chiêu đổ minh ế mẫm ma hạ vĩ niệp (Attain inexhaustible life).

Sa đà dã sa đà dã (Forever leave enmity and hatred, without any intent to kill).

Tát phạ mạn noa la sa đà nĩnh (Always desire peace and happiness).

Già đa dã tát phạ vĩ-cận nẵng (Upon hearing the name or sound, all fear is dispelled).

Nhạ dã nhạ dã (Fulfill all that is sought).

Tất đệ tất đệ tố tất đệ (Remove the suffering of separation from loved ones).

Tất-địa dã tất-địa dã (Dispel calamities and bring peace and happiness).

Một-địa dã một-địa dã (Remove illness and prolong life).

Mạo đà dã mạo đà dã bố ra dã (Remove hardships caused by officials).

Bố ra ni bố ra ni (Ensure safety in childbirth).

Bố ra dã minh a khổ (Subdue hostile bandits).

Tát phạ vĩ nễ-dã vĩ nga đa một đế nhạ dụ đa lị (Inspire the king’s affection and esteem).

Nhạ dạ phạ để (Inspire the affection and esteem of all people).

Để sắt-tra để sắt-tra (Inspire the affection and esteem of devas and humans).

Tam ma dã ma nộ bá ra dã (Inspire the affection and esteem of empresses and consorts).

Đát tha nghiệt đa (Inspire the affection and esteem of husbands).

Hột-lị nãi dã (Inspire the affection and esteem of women).

Thuấn đệ (Inspire the affection and esteem of Brahmins).

Nhĩ-dã phạ lộ ca dã đổ mãm (Inspire the affection and esteem of ministers and officials).

A sắt-tra tỵ ma hạ ná lỗ noa bà duệ tỳ-dược (Inspire the affection and esteem of great ministers).

Tát ra tát ra (Inspire the affection and esteem of householders).

Bát-ra tát ra bát-ra tát ra (Elders, elders).

Tát phạ phạ ra noa vĩ thú đà nĩnh tam mãn đá ca ra mãn noa ra vĩ thuấn đệ (Shakra, Shakra).

Vĩ nghiệt đế, vĩ nghiệt đế (Brahma King, Brahma King).

Vĩ nga đa ma ra (Maheshvara, Maheshvara).

Vĩ thú đà nĩnh (General of the Heavenly Sovereign, General of the Heavenly Sovereign).

Khất-sử ni khất-sử ni (Boys and girls, boys and girls).

Tát phạ bá bả (Devas and nagas, devas and nagas).

Vĩ thuấn đệ (Yakshas, yakshas).

Ma ra vĩ nghiệt đa (Inspire the affection and esteem of gandharvas).

Đế nhạ phạ để (Asuras, asuras).

Phạ nhật-ra phạ để (Garudas, garudas).

Đát-lại lộ chỉ-dã (Vairocana’s protective mindfulness).

Địa sắt-xỉ đế (Accomplishment of increase).

Sa-phạ hạ (Accomplishment of pacification).

Tát phạ đát tha nghiệt đa một đà (Akshobhya Buddha and Vajra Paramita’s protective mindfulness).

Tỳ sắc ngật đế (Accomplishment of increase).

Sa-bà hạ (Accomplishment of pacification).

(From this point downward, all passages follow the same pattern and therefore are not annotated. Each phrase contains three sections: the first invokes the name of a Buddha for protective mindfulness; the middle concerns accomplishment of increase; and the last concerns accomplishment of pacification. For example, Tát phạ đát tha nghiệt đa một đà means the protective mindfulness of Akshobhya Buddha and Vajra Paramita. Tỳ sắc ngật đế means accomplishment of increase. Ta-bà ha means accomplishment of pacification. All that follows may be understood accordingly.)

Tát phạ mạo địa tát đát-phạ tỳ sắc ngật-đế ta-bà ha Tát phạ nễ phạ đa tỳ sắc ngật-đế ta-bà ha Tát phạ đát tha nghiệt đa hật-rị nãi dã địa sắt xỉ đa hật-rị nãi duệ ta-bà ha Tát phạ đát tha nghiệt đa tam ma dã tất đệ ta-bà ha Ấn nại-lệ ấn nại-ra phạ để ấn nại-ra nhĩ-dã phạ lộ chỉ đế ta-bà ha Một-ra hám-minh ta-bà ha Một-ra hám-ma nễ-dữu sử đế ta-bà ha Vĩ sắt-noa nẵng mạc tắc ngật-lị đế ta-bà ha Ma hê thấp-phạ ra mãn nễ đa đa bộ nhĩ đá duệ ta-bà ha Phạ nhựt-ra bá ni ma lã vĩ lị-dã địa sắt-xỉ đế ta-bà ha Địa-lị đa-ra sắt tra-ra sắt tra-ra dã ta-bà ha Vĩ rô trà ca dã ta-bà ha Vĩ rô bá khất-sái dã ta-bà ha Vĩ thất-ra ma noa dã ta-bà ha Tạt đốt ra ma hạ ra nhạ ná mạc tắc hật-rị đá dã ta-bà ha Diễm ma dã ta-bà ha Diễm ma bố nhĩ đa ná mạc tắc hật-rị đá dã ta-bà ha Phạ rô noa (Varuna’s protective

mindfulness) dã (accomplishment of increase) ta-bà ha (accomplishment of pacification).

(The passages above and below should all be understood accordingly.)

ha Phệ ra tả lã nẫm ta-bà ha A phệ lã tả ra nẫm ta-bà ha Nghiệt bà hạ lệ tỳ-dược ta-bà ha Nghiệt bà tán đá ra ni ta-bà ha Hộ rô hộ rô ta-bà ha Úm ta-bà ha Sa-phạ ta-bà ha Bộc ta-bà ha Bộ phạ ta-bà ha Úm bộ ra-bộ phạ sa-phạ ta-bà ha Tức trí tức trí ta-bà ha Vĩ trí vĩ trí ta-bà ha Đà-ra-ni ta-bà ha Đà-ra-ni đà-ra-ni ta-bà ha A ngật nĩnh ta-bà ha Đế tổ phạ bổ ta-bà ha Tức lị tức lị ta-bà ha Tất lị tất lị ta-bà ha Một địa-dã một địa-dã ta-bà ha Tất địa dã tất địa dã ta-bà ha Mạn noa la tất đệ ta-bà ha Mạn noa la mãn đệ ta-bà ha Tỷ ma mãn đà nĩnh ta-bà ha Tát phạ thiết đốt-lỗ nẫm tàm ba tàm ba ta-bà ha Sa-đảm bà dã sa-đảm bà dã ta-bà ha Thân na thân na ta-bà ha Tẫn na tẫn na ta-bà ha Bạn nhạ bạn nhạ ta-bà ha Mãn đà mãn đà ta-bà ha Mãn hạ dã mãn hạ dã ta-bà ha Ma ni vĩ thuật đệ ta-bà ha Tố

lị-duệ tố lị-dã vĩ truật đệ vĩ thú đà nĩnh ta-bà ha Tán nại-lệ tô tán nại-lệ bố ra-noa tán nại-lệ ta-bà ha Khư ra hề tỳ-dược ta-bà ha Nhược khất-sát đát-lệ tỳ-dược ta-bà ha Thỉ phệ ta-bà ha Phiến để ta-bà ha.

Sa-phạ sa để-dã dã minh ta-bà ha Thỉ vãm yết lị phiến để yết lị bổ sắt trí yết lị ma ra mạt đạt nĩnh ta-bà ha Thất-lị yết lị ta-bà ha Thất-lị dã mạt đạt nĩnh ta-bà ha Thất-lị dã nhập-phạ ra nĩnh ta-bà ha Nẵng mẫu tư ta-bà ha Ma rô tư ta-bà ha Phệ nga phạ để ta-bà ha.

This mantra is truly the fundamental wisdom of innumerable hundreds of millions of Buddhas, as countless as the sands of the Ganges. Immeasurable Buddhas issue forth from this mantra, and Buddhas attain the Way by upholding it. Thus, throughout innumerable myriads of kotis of kalpas, the Buddhas of the three times—and Vairocana Tathagata within the wisdom of the dharmadhatu—sought it for countless kalpas before obtaining it.

Therefore, it is called the Wish-Fulfilling Mantra of Immediate Attainment. No Buddha can attain Buddhahood without obtaining this mantra. Followers of non-Buddhist paths and Brahmins who obtain this mantra will swiftly attain Buddhahood.

Why is this? Long ago, in the kingdom of Magadha, there was a Brahmin named Cu-bát. He had never seen a Buddha, heard the Dharma, cultivated the six paramitas, or abided in the four immeasurable minds.

Every day he killed pigs, goats, bears, deer, geese, chickens, and turtles for food—regularly taking from fifty to one hundred lives each day. After 250 years, this Brahmin died, departed the human world, and went to the palace of King Yama. King Yama then asked Shakra: “Into which hell should this offender be sent?

How grave are his offenses?” Shakra replied: “This man’s offenses are immeasurable and incalculable. His record of good deeds contains not a single wholesome act, while his record of evil is too extensive to count. Quickly confine him in the Avici Hell.”

The jailers immediately cast the offender into hell. At once, the hell spontaneously transformed into a lotus pond filled with water possessing the eight virtues. Within it were lotuses of every kind—blue, white, crimson, and purple, all brilliantly colored. Upon each lotus was a seat for an offender, and none of them experienced any suffering. At that moment, King Yama’s ox-headed and horse-headed jailers said to one another: “How extraordinary this hell is! This offender must have been arrested by mistake! The hell has become a pure land, and the offenders are no different from Buddhas! Such is what we have seen and heard.”

King Yama then went to Shakra’s palace and said: “This Cu-bát is not a guilty man,” recounting the miraculous transformation described above.

Shakra replied: “While alive, he never performed even a single wholesome deed as small as a mote of dust. I cannot understand this. Go to the Buddha realm and ask Shakyamuni Buddha what virtue Cu-bát possessed that could produce such a miraculous transformation.”

The Buddha then told Shakra: “During his lifetime, Cu-bát never performed a single wholesome deed. Go and see what has become of his remains in the human world.”

Shakra immediately went to Cu-bát’s burial place and saw a stupa one mile west of it. This fundamental mantra had been placed within the stupa. Because the ancient stupa had decayed, written characters of the mantra had fallen to the ground. One character was carried by the wind and adhered to Cu-bát’s remains. Shakra then ordered that Cu-bát be transferred successively through eight other hells. Whenever Cu-bát was moved to a hell, that place immediately became free from suffering. At that time, Cu-bát and all the offenders fully acquired the thirty-two marks and eighty excellent characteristics, and simultaneously became Buddhas and bodhisattvas in the Lotus-Dais Treasury World. In the Stainless World above, Cu-bát attained Buddhahood and was named the Buddha Cu-bát.

Such is this mantra’s power to extinguish offenses—how much more so when one personally upholds and recites it. If one recites it with utmost sincerity, what trace of offense could remain? Therefore, this mantra is also named Sovereign Immediate Attainment of Buddhahood According to One’s Wishes, Sovereign Seeking of Merit, and Sovereign Seeking of the Seven Treasures. Thus, this mantra has seven names:

1- The Buddha-Mind Heart Mantra: the wisdom-mind within the mind of wisdom of Vairocana Tathagata.

2- The Seal of the Minds of All Buddhas Mantra: the exceedingly profound wisdom-mind seal of all Buddhas.

3- The Anointing Mantra: it anoints those who uphold and recite it.

4- The Anointing-Seal Mantra: the bodhi seal that washes away afflictions.

5- The Boundary-Establishing Mantra: it removes karmic obstructions and expels all maras.

6- The Buddha-Mind Mantra: the Buddha’s true wisdom-mind.

7- The Inner-Heart Mantra: no Dharma surpasses this Dharma.

Those who uphold and recite it are likewise comparable to the Buddha, the foremost and highest among all Dharma Kings.

“O Bodhisattva Extinguishing Evil Destinies! This mantra can rescue all sentient beings. It can enable all sentient beings to leave every affliction and can bestow great benefit upon them, fulfilling their aspirations.

Just as the Buddha can rescue all suffering sentient beings; as one who is cold finds a warming fire; as one who is naked obtains clothing; as a lost child finds its mother; as one crossing a ford finds a boat; as the sick obtain medicine; as a dark place receives a bright lamp; as the poor obtain treasure; and as a blazing torch dispels darkness—so too is this mantra. It can enable sentient beings to leave all suffering and every affliction of illness and can loosen every bond of birth and death.

It is excellent medicine for the sick in Jambudvipa. If a sick person hears this mantra, the illness is immediately extinguished.

“If a good man or faithful woman hears this mantra even briefly, all existing karmic offenses and obstructions will be extinguished. Even one who has engaged in sexual misconduct with any woman will nevertheless not undergo the suffering of womb birth. Why? Because through approaching and making offerings to one who upholds the mantra, such men and women are as though assisting the Buddha’s own body.

“If anyone can uphold and recite it, know that this person has a vajra body, which fire cannot burn. Know that the Tathagata protects this person through his spiritual power. Know that this person is the body of the Tathagata, the body of Vairocana Tathagata. Know that this person is the tathagatagarbha and the eye of the Tathagata. Know that this person wears vajra armor. Know that this person has a body of radiant light. Know that this person has an indestructible body. Know that this person can subdue all enemies. Know that all this person’s karmic offenses and obstructions are entirely extinguished. Know that this mantra can remove the sufferings of hell.

“For the sake of the Buddha Way, throughout immeasurable realms and since time immemorial, I have expounded immeasurable Dharmas; yet this mantra is foremost and supreme, beyond all comparison. Throughout the trichiliocosm, even though sentient beings commit killing, they will not fall into the evil destinies. This is entirely due to the awesome power of this mantra—how much less would they have to suffer calamities in the human world? It continually causes a rain of the seven treasures to descend; there will be no illness or disaster, every wish will be fulfilled, body and mind will be peaceful and secure, and merit and longevity will be immeasurable.

“O Extinguishing Evil Destinies, below are seven short mantras. Those unable to recite the fundamental mantra should recite these. If young men or women are unable to uphold the Great Mantra, they may uphold these mantras according to their capacity.

1- The Buddha-Mind Heart Mantra:
Úm tát phạ đát tha nghiệt đa một đệ (Vairocana Tathagata’s worlds of the nine assemblies)
Bát-ra phạ ra vĩ nga đa bà duệ (The Tathagatas of the Four Wisdoms)
Xả ma dã bà-phạ minh (The Tathagata’s omniscience)
Bà nga phạ để tát phạ bá bế tỳ-dược (The Four Wisdoms and omniscience)
Sa-phạ sa để bà phạ đổ mẫu nễ mẫu nễ (The thirty-seven honored ones)
Vĩ mẫu nĩnh tả lệ (The omniscience of the thirty-seven honored ones)
Tả la nĩnh bà dã vĩ nga đế (The sixteen honored ones of the Auspicious Kalpa)
Bà dã hạ la ni (Omniscience)
Mạo địa mạo địa (Liberate sentient beings)
Mạo đà dã mạo đà dã (Bestow wisdom upon sentient beings)
Một địa lị một địa lị (Bestow excellent medicine upon sentient beings)
Tát phạ đát tha nghiệt đa (Bestow precious food and drink upon sentient beings)
Hật-lị nãi gia túc sắt-sĩ ta, ta-phạ hạ (Bestow peace and happiness upon sentient beings)

2- The Seal of the Minds of All Buddhas Mantra:
Úm, phạ nhật-la phạ để (All Buddhas of the three times)
Phạ nhật-la bát-la để sắt-xỉ đế thuật đệ Tát phạ đát tha nga đa mẫu nại-ra (Accomplish the seal of omniscience and the six paramitas)
Địa sắt-xá nẵng địa sắt-xỉ đế ma hạ mẫu đát lệ, sa-phạ hạ (May the efficacy of all Dharmas become manifest and accomplished).

3- The Anointing Mantra:
Úm, mẫu nĩnh mẫu nĩnh (All Tathagatas assemble together)
Mẫu nĩnh phạ lệ (The water of wisdom flows forth)
A tỉ sẩn tả đổ mãm (All Tathagatas return to the golden-colored realm)
Tát phạ đát tha nghiệt tha (Anointing with the water of wisdom)
Tát phạ vĩ nễ-dã tỉ sái tứ diệm (Wash away the afflictions and cognitive obstructions of the one hundred and sixty bodily states)
Ma hạ phạ nhật-la hạ phạ tả (Forever cut off every suffering of birth and death)
Mẫu nại-la mẫu nại-lị đái (Enter into me)
Tát phạ đa tha nga đa hật-rị nãi dạ địa sắt-xỉ đa phạ nhật-lệ sa-bà hạ (Become equal to the Tathagata’s body pervading the dharmadhatu).

4- The Anointing-Seal Mantra:
Úm a mật-lật đa phạ lệ (All Buddhas assemble, causing the water of wisdom to flow forth, anointing the crown, protectively attending, and bringing accomplishment)
Phạ ra phạ ra (Accomplish bodhi)
Bát-ra phạ ra vĩ truật đệ (Accomplish perfect, unsurpassed enlightenment)
Hồng (Cut off sentient beings’ afflictions)
Hồng (Cut off sentient beings’ cognitive obstructions)
Phát tra, phát tra, sa-bà hạ (Accomplish nirvana for oneself and others).

5- The Boundary-Establishing Mantra:
Úm a mật-lật đa vĩ lộ chỉ nĩnh (Form blazing flames)
Nghiệt bà tăng ra khất-sái ni a yết sái ni (With blue and iron flames, form an iron net)
Hồng (Expel ghosts and spirits)
Hồng (All murderous ghosts and spirits)
Phát tra phát tra (All ghosts and spirits are reduced to dust and do not arise again)
Sa-bà ha (Accomplishment).

6- The Buddha-Mind Mantra:
Úm vĩ ma lê (The Tathagata’s wisdom pervading the dharmadhatu)
Nhạ dã phạ lệ a mật-lật đế hồng hồng hồng hồng phát tra phát tra (Accomplish the Buddha-nature possessed by all sentient beings in the three realms)
Ta bà ha.

7- The Inner-Heart Mantra:
Úm bả ra bả ra tam bả ra tam bả ra (The Tathagata’s wisdom-mind benefits sentient beings)
Ấn nại-lị dã vĩ thú đà nĩnh hồng hồng rô rô tả sơ (The minds of the Buddha and sentient beings are not different) Ta-bà ha.

The Buddha told the Bodhisattva Extinguishing Evil Destinies: “This mantra is called the Wish-Fulfilling Mantra of Immediate Attainment. It can remove all karmic offenses and obstructions and destroy all suffering of the defiled evil paths. Extinguishing Evil Destinies!

This mantra was jointly proclaimed by innumerable hundreds of thousands of kotis of Buddhas, as countless as the sands of the Ganges. Those who rejoice in and uphold it will be sealed by the Tathagata with the Wisdom Seal. It can destroy the defiled evil paths of all sentient beings and swiftly rescue them from calamity and suffering, liberating those sinking in the ocean of birth and death.

It was proclaimed for short-lived sentient beings of little merit who have no protector, and for sentient beings who delight in creating all manner of evil karma.

“Furthermore, this mantra enables every kind of sentient being suffering in any place—whether in hell, in an evil destiny, or wandering through the ocean of birth and death; beings of little merit; and unbelievers who have lost the right path—to attain liberation.”

The Buddha then told the Bodhisattva Extinguishing Evil Destinies: “I now entrust this mantra to you. Use its awesome power to liberate all sentient beings from the ocean of suffering. Extinguishing Evil Destinies!

You should uphold and recite it, contemplate it, practice it, and protect it; do not allow it to be forgotten. Extinguishing Evil Destinies! If someone hears this mantra for even a moment, then all the grave evil karma and obstructions accumulated over the past thousand kalpas—by which that person should undergo every form of birth and death, wandering through the hells, the realms of hungry ghosts and animals, the domain of King Yama, or taking the bodies of asuras, yakshas, rakshasas, ghosts, spirits, putanas, apasmaras, mosquitoes and gnats, nagas, snakes, turtles, dogs, pythons, serpents, every kind of bird and ferocious beast, all living creatures that wriggle and move, even worms and ants—will never again be undergone.

That person will immediately be reborn in the presence of the Buddhas and Tathagatas’ bodhisattvas in their final existence, amid assemblies of bodhisattvas; or in a great Brahmin family, a great kshatriya family, or an exceptionally wealthy and noble family.

“Extinguishing Evil Destinies! This person is born in such honored circumstances entirely because of having heard this mantra. Therefore, wherever that person is reborn will be pure, and there will be no retrogression.

“Extinguishing Evil Destinies! Even attainment of the most excellent bodhi seat of enlightenment comes from praising the merit of this mantra. For this reason, it is called the Wish-Fulfilling Mantra of Immediate Attainment.

“Next, the secret mudras are explained:

Secretly contemplate the Five Tathagatas.

First, place the mudra upon the heart;

Next, set it upon the crown of the head;

Then place it upon the forehead, between the brows;

Next, upon the two eyebrows on either side—

Right first, left afterward—and it is complete.

When this mudra has been formed, my body becomes Universal Illumination.

Contemplate the vajra upon the tongue.

First, join the palms in the Vajra Palm;

It immediately becomes the Vajra Bond.

Patience and Vow are shaped like sharpened points;

Advance and Power rest against their backs.

Patience and Vow stand like a bowl,

Bent backward into the shape of a jewel,

Slightly curved like a lotus,

Their faces joined within the palms.

Dana and Wisdom, Dhyana and Knowledge are joined;

Thus is formed the secret mudra.

These five secret mudras

Are the hidden within the hidden,

The secret within the secret.

They must not be transmitted by one who is not an A—

That is, one who is not an acharya may not transmit them.

If the acharya knows them,

He teaches Dharma disciples as appropriate.

Thus should that Dharma mandala be made,

According to the Lotus Sutra ritual manual (this cannot be explained here).”

The Buddha then told the Bodhisattva Extinguishing Evil Destinies: “Listen attentively! I shall explain this for you. The upholding of this mantra is also taught for short-lived sentient beings. They should bathe, put on clean new robes, and recite it nine times each day. Those short-lived beings will then gain increased longevity and forever leave the suffering of illness. All karmic obstructions will be extinguished, and they will be liberated from the suffering of every hell. If birds in flight, running beasts, or any living creature hears this mantra but once, then when its present body ends, it will never again assume such a body.

“If one afflicted by a grave illness hears this mantra, that person will forever be freed from it. All other illnesses will also be extinguished. Karma that would cause descent into evil destinies will likewise be destroyed, and that person will immediately attain rebirth in the World of Tranquility. No longer born from a womb, that person will be born by transformation within a lotus. In every place of birth, that person will be lotus-born by transformation. Wherever born, that person will remember without forgetting and always know former lives.

“If someone previously committed every kind of extremely grave offense and, in accordance with that evil karma, should fall into hell, the animal realm, the domain of King Yama, the realm of hungry ghosts, or even the great Avici Hell; or should be born among aquatic creatures or assume the bodies of strange birds and beasts—if that person hears the title of this mantra, even a single syllable merely once, that person will not undergo the sufferings of any such realm. All karmic obstructions will be extinguished, and that person will swiftly be reborn in a Buddha realm.

“If someone approaches a person who recites even one syllable, that person will attain great nirvana, gain increased longevity, and experience supreme happiness. Upon relinquishing this body, that person will immediately attain rebirth in wondrous pure lands and constantly assemble together with the Buddhas. All Tathagatas will continually expound the sublime and wondrous meaning for that person.

All World-Honored Ones will immediately bestow a prediction of enlightenment upon that person. That person’s body will radiate light illuminating every Buddha realm. I have now only briefly described the power of this mantra.

If good men and faithful women do not give rise to doubt concerning the mantra from thought to thought, they will gain its efficacy. If those good men and faithful women allow doubt to arise, life after life they will not obtain the mantra’s efficacy, and in this life they will suffer from leukoderma, ringworm, or leprosy.

“For the benefit of sentient beings, I have taught this mantra. For poor and lowly sentient beings, I leave behind this wish-fulfilling mani jewel. It is the exceedingly profound Wisdom Seal and Dharma treasury of Vairocana Tathagata. One should revere those who constantly uphold and recite it just as one reveres the Buddha.”

The Ritual Manual of the Dharani for Miraculous Empowerment and Accomplishment of the Vajra-Crown Yoga’s Supreme

Secret Attainment of Buddhahood and Wish-Fulfilling Immediate Attainment (End)

Translated into Vietnamese in 1979 by the monk Thich Vien Duc. Nguyen Minh Hoang entered the text into a computer from the 1980 mimeographed edition; it has not yet been revised.