Toh 583Đà-la-ni Trì Tụng Bát-nhã Ba-la-mật Mười Vạn Tụng (Toh 583)

Summary

This text presents two dhāraṇīs for the retention of The Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra in One Hundred Thousand Lines.

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 two dhāraṇīs for the retention of The Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra in One Hundred
Thousand Lines. The
first of these dhāraṇīs does not appear to be contained in any canonical tantra, although it is shared in common with The Dhāraṇī of the Eight Thousand
Line Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra. Regarding the second dhāraṇī, a mantra
closely resembling it is found in The Ornament for the Vajra Essence Tantra. In addition, this dhāraṇī text is reproduced in its entirety in
Abhayākāragupta’s Main Path to Awakening.

This translation of the text into English relied primarily on the Degé recension while making reference 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, where it is accompanied by a third dhāraṇī.

The Translation

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The Dhāraṇī for Retaining the Perfection of Wisdom in a Hundred Thousand Lines

Homage to the
Bhagavatī, the Perfection of Wisdom.

tadyathā | oṃ munidharme saṃgrahadharme vimuktidharme sadā anugrahadharme vaiśravaṇa parivartata | dharme sarvakārya
paripramāṇadharme samatāparivartanadharme svāhā |

oṃ prajñā śruti smṛti vijaye dhīḥ dhāraṇīye svāhā |

By taking up this dhāraṇī, one will retain The Perfection of Wisdom in a Hundred Thousand Lines.

This completes “The Dhāraṇī for Retaining the Perfection of Wisdom in a Hundred Thousand Lines.”

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