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At that time, Bodhisattva Vasudhara said to the Buddha: “World-Honored One! If someone accepts, upholds, reads, and recites this dharani, how should it be upheld? I pray that the Buddha will expound it.”

The Blessed One then told Vasudhara: “If, at the beginning of each month, on the first day of the waxing moon, someone goes alone into a river flowing to the great ocean and immerses himself until the water reaches his chest, he should face east toward the sun and stand with palms joined. Beginning when the sun first appears and continuing until sunset, he should recite and uphold this mantra. After emerging from the water, he should fast for seven days, reciting and upholding it day and night without speaking to others.

“Afterward, an image of Vasudhara should be painted. To apply the colors, reverently anoint fine silk with white sandalwood-scented water and leave it for one full night, thereby expressing the mind of offering. The master and the painter who receives the commission must undertake the fasting precepts, bathe, put on new garments, and, with reverence, apply the colors and adorn the image according to the Dharma.

The image should be ten cubits high and three cubits wide. The bodhisattva should be deep green, seated upon a lotus, adorned beyond measure, with pure and radiant colors and a halo shining like the sun. Her right hand holds fruit, and her left hand makes the gesture of reassurance.

Her countenance is gentle and joyful. She sits before a naga palace, where hands hold treasure caskets containing pearls, precious vases, coral, agate, gold, silver, vaidurya, and every kind of jewel. Make offerings with a serene mind.

Above, depict devas amid precious clouds, rains of jewels, and jeweled nets. To the right, MAHASHRI DEVI holds a lotus in her hand and makes a gesture of reassurance. To the left stands the attendant AUSPICIOUS JEWELED PALM, perfect and majestic in form, adorned with vaidurya, holding a lotus and making a gesture of reassurance.

“The image of VASUDHARA should be installed at a place containing relics. Offer argha water scented with every fragrance, subtle foods, flowers, ghee, oil, and lamps. Also offer wondrous flowers, ghee, oil, incense, lamps, food, drink, and every kind of offering to Vinayaka and yakshas, so that no demonic obstruction may arise.

“After making the offerings, use sandalwood, agarwood, and various wondrous fragrances, scented ghee, oil, lamps, and immeasurable offerings. Facing the bodhisattva’s image, visualize it with wholehearted concentration, sit upright, and recite. Beginning during the Tiger hour, enter the ritual sanctuary for either seven or fourteen days, or even for one day. At sunrise, make one’s prayer, and all requests will certainly be fulfilled.”

The Blessed One then told Vasudhara: “If someone immerses himself in water at midnight and recites this mantra a full eighty times, his wishes will be fulfilled within that very month.”

The Buddha said: “Vasudhara! If someone at midnight recites the name of BODHISATTVA VASUDHARA according to the Dharma and practices ritual purity according to the Dharma, his wish will certainly be fulfilled within six months.”

The Buddha said: “Vasudhara! If someone has hidden wealth and afterward resolves to recite according to the Dharma, he will certainly preserve and obtain that wealth.”

The Buddha said: “Vasudhara! If someone seeks an illustrious rank, during the day he should immerse himself in water and recite this mantra. At midnight, he should perform homa with sesame seeds: for each seed, recite once and burn it once, continuing until eight hundred recitations have been completed. He will certainly attain great joy and complete wealth and honor.”

The Buddha said: “Vasudhara! If someone mixes white mustard seeds with ghee, then for each recitation takes one seed and burns it once, performing the homa rite as before, the king will rejoice and the country will be free from calamity.”

The Buddha said: “Vasudhara! If someone mixes milk and wondrous fragrances with ghee and performs the homa rite according to the preceding method, he will always be able to avert every calamity befalling a great minister.”

The Buddha said: “Vasudhara! If someone at midnight wholeheartedly recites and upholds the bodhisattva’s name and practices ritual purity according to the Dharma, within seven days he will attain the complete accomplishment of great wealth and joy.”

The Buddha said: “Vasudhara! If, beginning on the first day of the waxing moon, someone undertakes the practice according to the rite, observes the fasting precepts, installs the bodhisattva’s image at a place containing relics, makes offerings according to the Dharma, recollects and recites the bodhisattva’s name, and prays wholeheartedly, the bodhisattva will certainly manifest a transformation body before him and offer reassurance. He will attain non-retrogression and undertake the bodhisattva conduct.”

The Buddha said: “Vasudhara! If someone consumes pure vegetarian food, practices the pure life, abstains from meat and alcohol, and constantly recites day and night, he will attain great wealth and honor.”

At that time, the Blessed One declared that this ritual procedure is called the ROOT MANTRA. Thereupon, in the assembly, he spoke the mantra:

1. Nẵng mô la đát nẵng đát la dạ dã. ÁN

2. Phộc tô đà ly, tát phộc hạ

3. ÁN lạc khất xoa nhĩ bộ đa la nễ

4. Phộc tất ninh duệ, tát phộc hạ

NAMO RATNATRAYÀYA

OMÏ VASU DHÀRE SVÀHÀ

OMÏ LAKSÏMI BHÙ TÀRANÏI VASINÌYE SVÀHÀ

After the Blessed One had spoken this mantra, he again told Vasudhara: “There are various Dharma seals that express the inner Dharma and are also called external expressions. When forming this mudra, join the two palms while leaving the center hollow. Bend the index fingers inward at the middle joints and raise the ring fingers. Interlace the little fingers evenly with one another. Extend the middle fingers straight like needles. Orient this mudra successively toward each of the eight directions. This is Vasudhara’s ritual mudra. If one forms the mudra according to the Dharma and recites and upholds this vidya mantra, every prayer will be fulfilled, bringing extensive benefit to sentient beings.”

The Blessed One then spoke the mantra:

“Án-thất-ly duệ, Thất-ly ca ly, Đằng nẵng ca ly, Đa nễ dã ca ly, Tát phộc hạ”

OMÏ SRÌYE ‘SRÌ KARE DHÀNA KÀRE DHÀNÀYA KÀRE SVÀHÀ

After the Blessed One had spoken this mantra, he again told Vasudhara: “For this SAMADHI mudra, first join the two palms and bend the thumbs into the palms. This is called Vasudhara’s SAMADHI mudra.”

The Blessed One then spoke the mantra:

“Án- Tam ma duệ Tảo di-duệ Tam ma dã ca ly, ma hạ tam ma duệ, tát-phộc hạ.”

OMÏ SAMAYE SAUMYE SAMAYA KARE MAHÀ SAMAYE SVÀHÀ

The Blessed One then told VASUDHARA: “Such is the mantra and mudra of the Samadhi Body.

“Furthermore, Vasudhara! Bend the index fingers against the third joints of the middle fingers and raise the thumbs. This mudra is called the ROOT MUDRA of Bodhisattva Vasudhara. Form this mudra both when inviting the holy sages and when seeing them off.”

The Buddha told Vasudhara: “Extend the index fingers horizontally outward. This is called the FLOWER MUDRA.”

The Blessed One then spoke the mantra:

“ÁN - phộc tô địa tát phộc hạ”

OMÏ VASUNI SVÀHÀ

The Buddha said: “Vasudhara! Thus should this Flower Mudra and mantra be accepted and upheld.”

The Blessed One again said: “Vasudhara! One should extend both middle fingers horizontally. This is called the INCENSE MUDRA.”

The Blessed One then spoke the mantra:

“ÁN - Phộc tô đà ly tát phộc ha”

OMÏ VASU DHÀRE SVÀHÀ

After the Blessed One had spoken this mantra, he told Vasudhara: “Extend the ring fingers outward. This is called the PERFUMED-PASTE MUDRA.” The Blessed One then spoke the mantra:

“ÁN – Phộc tô ma để thất ly duệ tát phộc hạ”

OMÏ VASU MATI ‘SRÌYE SVÀHÀ

After the Blessed One had spoken this mantra, he again told Vasudhara: “Join the two thumbs together and extend the remaining three fingers like a three-pronged vajra. This is called the LAMP MUDRA.” The Blessed One then spoke the mantra:

“ÁN - Phộc tô Đà la ni tát phộc hạ”

OMÏ VASU DHÀRANÏI SVÀHÀ

After the Blessed One had spoken the mantra, he told Vasudhara: “Cup the two hands as though holding water, crossing and joining the thumbs outside the index fingers. This is called the FOOD MUDRA.” The Blessed One then spoke the mantra:

“ÁN - Đà la ni Đà la ni tát phộc hạ”

OMÏ DHÀRANÏI DHÀRANÏI SVÀHÀ

After the Blessed One had spoken this mantra, he again told Vasudhara: “For all remaining offerings, use the Root Mudra and empower them with the mantra. When regularly making the gift of Dharma, likewise empower it with the customary mudra and mantra.

“If someone paints an image of Bodhisattva Vasudhara, he should use new, fine silk of excellent quality, without blemish, measured according to the Buddha’s cubit, approximately two chi in length. Above, paint an image of the Buddha; to the right, an image of the holy Avalokiteshvara; and to the left, an image of Vajrapani. Below the central Buddha image, paint Vasudhara in the color of pure gold. The bodhisattva’s right hand makes the wish-granting gesture. Adorn the figure with every kind of pearl, vaidurya, agate, and other precious substance.

“At the lower right, paint the practitioner, whose right hand is raised in homage and whose left hand holds a crown. During the waxing moon, paint this bodhisattva, recite before the image one hundred thousand times, and make offerings according to one’s means.”

The Blessed One then told Vasudhara: “If someone wishes to sow a field, the practitioner should bathe, put on new garments, and undertake the fasting precepts. Place the bodhisattva’s image in the field. Reverently offer powdered incense, flower garlands, vaidurya, and fine food and drink, and recite the bodhisattva’s name eight hundred times. Before the image, empower fragrant water by reciting eight hundred times, then pour it into an auspicious vase placed before the image. Have the sower and the ox stand in a straight line. Sprinkle them with water from the auspicious vase, and have the practitioner circle the field seven times together with the plowman and ox. The seed may then be sown.”

The Blessed One then told Vasudhara: “If someone wishes to harvest a field, arrange its four corners so that they are level and provide food and drink according to the Dharma. The practitioner should bathe, put on clean garments, and undertake the fasting precepts. Place the honored image in the field.

Offer flowers, incense, lamps, torches, food, drink, and every kind of offering, and recite the mantra of empowerment a full eight hundred times. After empowering it, place the honored image of the bodhisattva facing east. With incense, powder, ghee, oil, flower garlands, food, and drink, serenely burn every wondrous fragrance in the granary and offer various flowers, fragrant argha water, parasols, banners, streamers, and other offerings.

Again place the bodhisattva’s image inside the granary. Sprinkle cow’s milk throughout the granary and recite the true words. After removing all extraneous objects, bring in the grain and wealth; all will be auspicious and free from calamity.

“Furthermore, Vasudhara! Arrange food, incense, and flowers as offerings in this storehouse. By accepting, upholding, reading, and reciting this dharani, one will be freed from every calamity.

“Furthermore, Vasudhara! If someone writes the Vasudhara Dharani Sutra crosswise upon five-colored silk, perfumes it with incense, reads and recites it, and then wears it upon his head, his merit will increase immeasurably and calamities will be averted and eliminated.

The Buddha told Vasudhara: “If someone wishes to uphold it, he should first calm his mind and recite it eight hundred times. If he recites this dharani during the three periods of each day, his prayers will receive the bodhisattva’s empowering assistance.

“Furthermore, Vasudhara! If someone seeks the fulfillment of wishes, at the place where he resides he should face the northeastern corner and create an image of the holy Bodhisattva Vasudhara, painting it according to the Dharma with five-colored silk until the work is completed. Install it in a pure place and wholeheartedly offer fragrant argha water, anointing incense, burning incense, sandalwood, agarwood, and every kind of fragrance. Place five kinds of jewels, five kinds of medicine, and five kinds of grain in the argha vase, and put silk over it. Do not open this vase. If one recites and upholds this dharani according to the Dharma, every wish will be completely fulfilled, wealth will increase, and immeasurable merit will be attained.”

The Blessed One then said: “Vasudhara! If sentient beings wish to make a granary, they may construct it in whatever size is required. When they wish to remove grain from it, they should offer butter and food to the honored image and recite this dharani according to the Dharma a full one hundred and twenty times. Only afterward should they remove the grain; every calamity will thereby be arrested and eliminated.”

The Blessed One then told Vasudhara: “If someone carrying money travels far away and his relatives are distressed, they should make argha water from white nutgrass, bezoar, turmeric, borneol, sandalwood, and musk, mark out divisions upon a great vessel, calm their minds, and recite this dharani. The person carrying the wealth on the distant journey will quickly return by a smooth and auspicious route, and his money and possessions will also have greatly increased.”

The Blessed One then spoke the mantra:

“Đát nễ dã tha, tức lệ tức lệ A nga tha A nga tha bả nga phộc đế”

TADYATHÀ: ‘SRÌ ‘SRÌ AGACCHA AGACCHA BHAGAVATE

After the Blessed One had spoken this mantra, he again said: “Vasudhara! If this dharani is accepted and upheld, it can fulfill every wish of sentient beings, just as the water element pervades the earth; as sunlight dispels every darkness; and as moonlight brings coolness and clarity to all things.”

The Blessed One then spoke the mantra:

1. Đát nễ dã tha đà nẵng nô

2. Phộc lỗ noa

3. Thất ninh phộc

4. Ấn nại la

5. Thất ninh phộc

6. Tô đế nhạ sa

7. Ma nỗ

8. Nỗ ma hô

9. Tức đá dã đổ

10. Thiết đá đảm

11. Tát na bát la dã tham

12. Dã tha ca lăng

13. Tất điện đổ

14. Mãn đát la phả na

15. Nễ hạ

1. Đát nễ dã tha

2. Khư tra khư tra

3. Khế chí khế chí

4. Cụ trác cụ trác

5. Tô lỗ tô lỗ

6. Mẫu lô mẫu lô

7. Môn tả môn tả

8. Nẵng ma ly

9. Nẵng ma ly

10. Nê tứ nê tứ

11. Nại ba dã

12. Nại ba dã

13. Bát đát la

14. Để sắt xá đế

15. Tứ la nê dã

16. Tô phộc la noa

17. Bát la nại ba dã

18. Sa phộc hạ

19. Phộc tô địa

20. Sa phộc hạ

21. A nậu Đáp hán nẵng dã

22. Sa phộc hạ

23. Phộc hộ địa

24. Sa phộc hạ

25. Phộc tô đà

26. Địa đá duệ

27. Sa phộc hạ

28. Ngu kiểu

29. Sa phộc hạ

30. Tô la tị

31. Sa phộc hạ

32. Ấn nại la dã

33. Sa phộc hạ

34. Phộc lỗ noa dã

35. Sa phộc hạ

36. Phệ thất la ma noa dã

37. Sa phộc hạ

38. Ninh thế tỷ dụ

39. Vĩ ninh thế tỳ dược

40. Sa phộc hạ

Ổ đáp ba nại diễn đổ nhĩ kiếm khất xoa năng ha A vĩ la ha năng noa mô nại diễn đổ. ÁN đát tô tứ mê ninh tứ nại nại ba dã Sa phộc hạ.

After the Blessed One had spoken this mantra, he told Vasudhara: “This mantra is called the Heart Dharani of Bodhisattva Vasudhara. If someone calmly accepts and upholds this dharani, remembering it without forgetting, he can extinguish grave offenses, attain immeasurable merit, leave the three evil realms behind, and perfect wealth and honor. None of his wishes will remain unfulfilled, and ultimately he will attain the unsurpassed fruit.”

At that time, Bodhisattva Vasudhara and the holy assembly, having heard what the Buddha had taught, rejoiced beyond measure. They bowed their heads at the Buddha’s feet, faithfully accepted the teaching, and practiced it.

THE SUTRA OF THE HOLY VASUDHARA DHARANI

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