Thiên Nhãn Thiên Tí Quán Thế Âm Bồ Tát Đà La Ni Thần Chú Kinh quyển 2

At that time, when Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva uttered this mantra, the three-thousand-great-thousand world-system, extending even to the Heaven of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception, shook in six ways. The devas of the Akanistha Heaven and Mahesvara Heaven trembled uneasily and were all greatly terrified. All evil ghosts cried out loudly, suffering great anguish, and fled east and west without knowing where to go.

Then the transformation body of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva addressed the great assembly and the evil ghosts and spirits: “If you do not follow my mantra but act contrary to it, your heads will be shattered into many pieces.”

This mantra can crush mountains and cause the great ocean to dry up. This mantra can crush the armies of the asuras and protect all lands. This mantra can subdue all evil ghosts and spirits, all diseases, all poisons and wickedness, and all evil persons. This mantra can vanquish the beings of the Thirty-Three Heavens and cause them all to submit.

If a good man is able to recite and uphold this mantra, that person will possess indescribable majestic power. This mantra can cause its reciter to become wealthy and independent. It can also cause kings to cherish and remember that person throughout their lives, and all wishes will be fulfilled according to one’s intent.

If one wishes to subdue the hordes of mara, one should burn guggulu incense and recite my Body Mantra twenty-one times.

If one wishes to cause everyone to love and esteem oneself, empower a willow twig with the mantra twenty-one times and hold it in the mouth; one will immediately be loved and respected.

If one wishes to obtain eloquence and wisdom, empower sweet flag with the mantra 1,008 times and rub it over the heart; one will immediately obtain unobstructed eloquence.

Form the Mother Dharani Heart Mudra.

Thirteenth: Mudra and Mantra of Unobstructed Eloquence

Place the backs of the two hands together, then join them and extend the thumbs forward.

This mudra can protect oneself and others. One should establish a protective boundary wherever one travels, empowering either clean water or pure ash with the mantra seven times. At one’s dwelling place, cup the water or ash in the hand. First sprinkle it upon one’s own body; afterward scatter it according to the Dharma toward the four cardinal and four intermediate directions.

If a good man or good woman is harmed or disturbed by evil ghosts, wangliang spirits, or malign beings, take a pomegranate branch and a willow branch, silently recite this mantra, and gently strike the sick person. There is no illness that will not be cured.

The mantra is:

Nam mô Tát bà phật đà, đạt ma, tăng kỳ tỷ-gia.

Nam mô A lợi gia bà lô cát đế nhiếp phạt la tả, bồ đề tát đa bả tả.

Nam mô Bạt chiết la ba ni tả, bồ đề tát đa ba tả.

Đá điệt tha: Đồ tỷ, đồ tỷ ca gia – Đồ tỷ bà la xà bà la ni, Cấp bà ha

NAMO SARVA BUDDHA, DHARMA, SANÕGHEBHYAHÏ

NAMAHÏ ÀRYA AVALOKITE’SVARÀYA BODHISATVÀYA

NAMAHÏ VAJRAPÀNÏÌYA BODHISATVÀYA

TADYATHÀ: DHUPE DHUPE KÀYA – DHUPE PRAJVALANÏI - SVÀHÀ

This mudra and mantra can subdue adherents of heterodox paths and wrong views.

If a good man or good woman recites it once in each of the three periods of the day, beginning early in the morning, this is no different from making every kind of offering to one billion Buddhas. Such a person will forever cease to receive a female body and, after death, will remain forever distant from the three lower realms—hell beings, hungry ghosts, and animals—and will immediately be reborn in Amitabha Buddha’s land. The Tathagata will take that person by the hand, stroke the crown of the head, and say: “Do not be afraid. Come and be born in my land. This body of yours will not suffer an untimely death, nor will ghosts or spirits find an opportunity to harm you.”

Fourteenth: Mudra That Shatters the Three-Thousand-Great-Thousand World-System and Extinguishes Offenses

Stand upright. Extend the left arm forward and spread the five fingers straight ahead. Next, curl the right thumb into the palm and close the other four fingers into a fist. Place it over the opening of the left ear. Recite the Body Mantra while moving the index finger back and forth.

Form this mudra separately during the three periods of each day, reciting the mantra seven times during each period. It can extinguish the five heinous offenses and four grave offenses. By giving rise to loving-kindness and compassion toward all sentient beings, one can burn away the roots of every offense. When this body comes to an end, one will immediately encounter a Buddha. In that Buddha-field, one will become a wheel-turning sage king. One will also obtain a dharani called Inexhaustible Treasury, a samadhi called Equal Wisdom, and the twenty-eight excellent bodily marks. This body will not suffer diseases of the eyes, tongue, ears, nose, or any other bodily illness; all such diseases can be eliminated. Former karmic offenses will also be extinguished.

If there is a drought, mix black sesame seeds with castor-seed oil and form them into pellets. Empower them with the mantra 108 times and cast them into water; rain will immediately fall. If there is excessive rain, parch rice until it blossoms, mix it with oil from thorn-apple seeds to form pellets, empower them with the mantra 108 times, and cast them into water; the rain will immediately cease.

Fifteenth: Mudra for Subduing Mara Enemies Throughout the Three-Thousand-Great-Thousand World-System

Interlace the five fingers, with the left over the right, close them tightly into a fist, and place it against the crown of the head. Recite the Body Mantra, and they will immediately be subdued.

If one performs this Dharma, then for twenty-nine days and nights before a stupa containing relics, grind white sandalwood into powder, smear it upon the ground, and construct a mandala. Scatter various flowers within it, bathe thoroughly, put on fresh clean robes, hold an incense burner in the hands, and burn agarwood incense. Sit facing east and recite the mantra 1,008 times. This is the initial efficacy.

Further, mix mustard seeds and black sesame seeds and grind them into powder. Pinch up a small quantity with three fingers, empower it once with the mantra, and cast it into the fire. Do this for seven days, separately reciting the mantra 108 times each day. Thereafter, everything one undertakes will be accomplished.

Sixteenth: Vast Fearlessness Mudra

Stand upright with both feet parallel. First turn the right hand palm upward, letting the elbow hang at the highest part of the left—or right—knee. Do the same with the left hand.

Before a stupa containing relics, recite the Body Mantra 108 times. One will immediately be able to bestow fearlessness upon sentient beings.

Further, take sophora incense, white mustard seeds, sweet flag, and Xả Đa Bà Lợi, the name of a foreign medicinal substance. Cast these things into a fire and burn them. While they burn, one should stand before a Buddha image or remain in a pure place, recite the mantra thirty-two times, and make offerings of incense and flowers. All mantra rites will then be accomplished, and everything undertaken will bear fruit.

If another mantra has produced no response, empower it with this mantra and it too will be accomplished.

If one wishes to seek a dream, recite this mantra, form the mudra, and then sleep. A dream will immediately arise, and whatever one wishes to see will be seen.

If a person lacks merit, none of that person’s wishes will be obtained. If the person recites the mantra three times daily for a full seven days, all wishes will be completely fulfilled.

At that time, while the Bodhisattva was teaching the Dharma to the oceanic assembly in the palace of the naga king Sagara, he saw the naga multitudes suffering great anguish. Out of compassion for the nagas, he delivered the suffering beings so that they all became free from suffering and from harmful enemies.

The naga maiden then offered a precious jewel equal in value to the Saha world in order to seek the Dharma. I therefore extensively taught the means of becoming free from every suffering and calamity.

Seventeenth: Mudra and Mantra of Crystal Bodhisattva for Protecting and Upholding the Thousand Eyes

At that time, Crystal Bodhisattva, wishing to benefit, protect, and uphold this mantra, uttered the following mantra:

Tỳ ma lệâ, ma ha tỳ ma lệâ, úc ha lệâ, ma ha úc ha lệâ, hưu ma lệ, ma ha hưu ma lệâ, tát ha lệâ chỉ lệ thê, cấp bà ha

VIMALE MAHÀ VIMALE – UD-ÀRI MAHÀ UD-ÀRI – UD-BALE MAHÀ UD-BALE – SAHARI KIRTTI – SVÀHÀ

If a good man or good woman, wherever that person travels, accepts and upholds this Dharma of the Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva, I will constantly follow and protect that person. Even the retinues of mara will not dare cause disturbance.

If someone faces an urgent calamity, invasion by another country, robbery, rebellion, or disorder, one should use a five-colored thread and tie knots in it while reciting the mantra twenty-one times—one recitation for each knot—then wear it on the left arm. Next, close the ring finger, middle finger, and index finger of the right hand into a fist, press the thumb over them, extend the little finger, and point it toward the direction from which the bandits are coming. Recite the mantra seven times, and they will all retreat and disperse, not daring to cause harm.

At that time, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was teaching the Dharma in the Snow Mountains. He observed that the people in the country of yaksas and raksasas ate only the blood and flesh of sentient beings and had no wholesome minds. Wishing to benefit them, the Bodhisattva used skillful means to teach and transform those beings. Exercising his supernormal powers, he went to that country and manifested the Thousand-Eyed, Thousand-Armed Mara-Subduing Body, teaching the accomplishment rite of the Mother Dharani. The raksasa king then came before me to seek compassion and pay homage. I sealed him with the Accomplishment Mudra, and he immediately attained the unsurpassed Way.

Eighteenth: Accomplishment Mudra

Stand upright with both feet parallel. Join the palms at the level of the heart, interlace the little fingers with the left over the right, and recite the Body Mantra twenty-one times. Every undertaking will be accomplished.

To rescue sentient beings suffering in the six destinies, one should use the Wheel Mudra. Place all ten fingertips against one another, separate the wrists, and open the space within the palms. The fingers should be about one cun apart. This represents the Bodhisattva dwelling within the six destinies of samsara and delivering beings from calamity and suffering. Turn this mudra, and all will become free from suffering.

This mudra rite had only just been translated by Master Bạt Tra Na La Diên Trường Niên when he returned to his country, taking the translation with him. Master Trí Thông later searched for him but could not find him. He subsequently encountered a monk who had copied the Sanskrit manuscript, and thus translated it abroad, without access to the original text.

Nineteenth: Mudra for Attaining Perfect and Complete Awakening

Sit in the full lotus posture. First extend the five fingers of the left hand, turn the palm upward, and place it on the left knee. Then extend the five fingers of the right hand, turn the palm downward, and cover the right knee.

This mudra is identical to the Dharma-Extinguishing Mudra. All Buddhas of the past, future, and present attained a Buddha’s bodhi through this same mudra. This mudra can remove all karmic obstacles.

If, during meditation, the various Dharmas do not become manifest, one should remain for seven days and seven nights in an aranya, reciting this dharani and forming this mudra. With utmost sincerity, be mindful of the Buddha and repent during the six periods of day and night. The various Dharmas will immediately become manifest, and one will obtain immeasurable, boundless merit beyond calculation.

Twentieth: Mudra for Summoning the Devas of the Thirty-Three Heavens

First close the four fingers of the left hand into a fist. Then use the right hand to grasp the left thumb as though forming a fist, causing the left thumb to rest within the tiger’s mouth of the right hand with its tip protruding. Move the right index finger back and forth.

The mantra is:

Aùn (1) Câu trí, Câu trí (2) Câu gia lợi (3) già lợi, già lợi (4) già lê lệ, Tô-bà ha

OMÏ – KUTÏÌ KUTÌÏ KUNÕJALI JRÌ JRÌ JARJARA – SVÀHÀ

This dharani, mudra, and mantra are inconceivable. If a good man or good woman recites this mantra 108 times before going to sleep, all the wishes in that person’s mind will be seen and known in a dream.

If one can recite this mantra every day, it can also extinguish all offenses, and one will not lose the bodhi-mind. That person’s dreams at night will gradually become more extensive and entirely auspicious, until the person dreams of seeing the Tathagata beneath the bodhi tree bestowing a prediction of attaining the Way. Sakra, Brahma, and the other devas will constantly come to attend and protect that person.

Twenty-First: Mudra for Summoning the Devas, Nagas, Eight Classes of Beings, Ghosts, and Spirits

Stand upright with both feet parallel. First curl the left thumb into the palm, close the other four fingers into a fist, and place it against the heart. Next, do the same with the right hand, place the right hand beside the right ear, and move the index finger back and forth.

The mantra is:

Nam mô Ni kiện đà (1) Nam mô A lợi xà ba đà (2) Cấp-bà ha (3) Nam mô A lợi xà la, cấp-bà ha (4) nhân hề di hề (5) cấp bà ha”

NAMO NIKANÏTÏHA NAMO ALI JAVÀDI SVÀHÀ NAMO ALI JARA SVÀHÀ _EHYEHI SVÀHÀ

If a good man or good woman accepts, upholds, reads, and recites this mudra and mantra, that person will know past lives throughout seven lifetimes. Venomous snakes will be unable to bite and injure that person; poisons will naturally be neutralized; blades and clubs will be unable to cause harm; even a king will be unable to become angry with that person; and throughout the kalpa the person will not undergo the sufferings of hell.

When this mantra is recited, the twenty-eight divisions of ghosts and spirits will all come and sit beside the mantra-holder to listen to its recitation.

If a good man or good woman is possessed by a ghostly being, make a mantra cord from white thread, reciting the mantra once for each knot. After tying forty-nine knots in this manner, bind it below the sick person’s throat, and the illness will immediately be removed.

If an epidemic spreads through a country and many of its people die, take 108 lotus flowers from a pond in the king’s garden. Empower each flower once with the mantra and cast it into the fire. When all the lotus flowers have been offered, the epidemic will immediately be eliminated.

Twenty-Second: Liberation Mudra

Sit in the full lotus posture. First touch the tips of the middle finger and thumb of the left hand together, turn the palm upward, extend the other three fingers, and place the hand on the left knee. Next, form the same gesture with the right hand and place the palm downward on the right knee. Recite the Body Mantra twenty-one times. All wishes will be fulfilled, and the anguish of all forms of existence will be liberated.

Suppose a good man or good woman has committed all ten evil acts and five heinous offenses, the number of those offenses being as great as the minute particles of earth in Jambudvipa, with each particle representing one kalpa. For committing this mass of offenses, that person deserves to fall into hell for ten thousand kalpas, enduring suffering with no prospect of release. If that good man or good woman, before an image or relic, on the fifteenth day of the waxing moon, abstains from food for one day and one night, forms this mudra, and recites the mantra a full 108 times, all the offenses and suffering described above will be completely extinguished. It is impossible that they should not be extinguished.

This mudra was absent from Master Trí Thông’s earlier manuscript. In Liangzhou, Master Trí Thông encountered a Brahmin monk who possessed this Sanskrit manuscript. When they met and examined the texts together, they found this mudra therein. He personally accepted and upheld it, and its efficacy was inconceivable.

Twenty-Third: Mudra of Mastery in Supernormal Travel

Stand upright. First use the left hand to grasp the right foot, with the thumb positioned as though forming a fist. Next, use the right hand to grasp the back of the left wrist. Recite the Body Mantra seven times; then traveling a thousand miles will present no difficulty. Recite the mantra without making any sound.

Twenty-Fourth: Mudra of Mastery in Supernormal Transformations

First touch the left thumb to the nail of the little finger. Then do the same with the right hand. Extend the remaining three fingers straight, bring the wrists together, place the hands upon the crown of the head, and recite the Body Mantra twenty-one times. One will be able to travel freely at will.

In former times, in the country of Kashmir, the monk Đồ Đề obtained this Sanskrit manuscript in northern India, but it had never been translated. Having personally received and upheld it and experienced its vast power, he did not dare transmit it. Master Trí Thông copied the manuscript from the monk Đệ Bà Già Già and, by accepting and upholding it according to the Dharma, obtained considerable efficacy. Yet it did not circulate in the world. This passage is entirely absent from the other manuscript. If fellow students later obtain it, may we share in its meritorious power.

Twenty-Fifth: Mudra and Mantra of the King’s Heart

Join the palms, leaving an empty space between them. Bring the wrists together and move the two index fingers back and forth.

The mantra is:

Aùn (1) A lỗ lực, đế sái, lộ ca, tỳ xã gia (2) Tát bà thước đổ-lô, bát-la ma đà na (3) ca la gia – Hàm phán, toa ha

OMÏ – AROLIK TRAILOKAVIJAYA SARVA ‘SATRÙ PRAMATHANA KARÀYA HÙMÏ PHATÏ SVÀHÀ

At that time, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva told the great assembly: “After the Buddha has entered nirvana, during the five hundred years of the Dharma-ending age, if a person in Jambudvipa is able to see and hear this Dharma-gate of the Dharani and Dharma Mudras, know that this person made offerings to immeasurable Buddhas in past lives. Now, having encountered and obtained my Dharani and Dharma Mudras, if that person copies, accepts, upholds, reads, and recites them, and practices according to the Dharma, that person will immediately attain the first bodhisattva-bhumi, swiftly accomplish the fruit of Buddhahood, and attain anuttara-samyak-sambodhi.”

At that time, after Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva had heard the Buddha’s teaching, he rejoiced, faithfully accepted it, paid homage, and withdrew.

SUTRA OF THE DHARANI AND DIVINE MANTRAS OF

THE THOUSAND-EYED, THOUSAND-ARMED AVALOKITESVARA BODHISATTVA

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