The Dhāraṇī of Noble Avalokiteśvara
Translation of འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟགས་དབང་ཕྱག་ག་གཟངས་ཞས་བྱ་བ (འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་གི་གཟུངས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ)
- Language
- English
- Date
- 2025 CE
- Translator
- samye-translations-stefan-mang
- Extent
- 20 passages, 314 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- lotsawahouse · Samye Translations; Stefan Mang (tr.), The Dhāraṇī of Noble Avalokiteśvara, Lotsawa House (version… · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site
Contents
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In the language of India: āryāvalokiteśvara-nāma-dhāraṇī
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In the language of Tibet: 'phags pa spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug gi gzungs zhes bya ba
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In the English language: The Dhāraṇī of Noble Avalokiteśvara
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Homage to noble Avalokiteśvara, the embodiment of great compassion!
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Out of great love and the force of his boundless compassion, noble Avalokiteśvara generated bodhicitta, the heart of awakening. Seated upon a throne of lotus, sun, and moon he appeared through the emanation and reabsorption of light from the syllable hrīḥ. He manifests with one face and four arms: His first two hands are joined in the gesture of prayer. His lower right hand holds a white pearl mālā; his lower left, a white lotus. His body, white in colour, is seated in the full vajra posture, adorned with precious ornaments and a resplendent crown. At his side stand the mother Ṣaḍakṣarī and the father Maṇidhara. Around him gather countless male and female bodhisattvas, forming a vast retinue. Thus it was spoken:
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O sons and daughters of noble family!
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Whether you recite my mantra but once,
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Whether you hold it in your heart with steady recollection,
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Or write it down and carry it upon your body—
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If done with faith and devotion,
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You will purify the five gravest misdeeds
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And the negative actions that are almost as grave.
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You will be freed from the three lower realms
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And the eight situations that are inopportune for Dharma practice.
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You will never again be born into suffering.
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All harm from humans, non-humans, and wild beasts will be pacified.
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You will be released from all illnesses and obstructing influences.
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By reciting this sacred mantra, you shall behold the face of noble Avalokiteśvara, and at the end of this life, you will be reborn in the pure-land of Sukhāvatī. Have no hesitation, uncertainty, or doubt about this truth.
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This concludes the Dhāraṇī of Noble Avalokiteśvara.
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Tibetan Source