འཕགས་པ་སྒ་དྲག་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 1

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⁵ Homage to Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta.⁶

Thus did I hear at one time. The Bhagavān was dwelling together with an assembly of innumerable bodhisattvas in a pavilion ornately decorated with the seven kinds of precious jewels⁷ that was located in the firmament of the sky above Śuddhāvāsa.

On that occasion, the Bhagavān said to the bodhisattvas, “Children of a noble family, may you uphold The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates for the benefit and well-being of the whole world.⁸ It is as follows:

“As I pass through life after life in saṃsāra,⁹ whatever suffering I experience, may it not be characterized by my not understanding that it is the same for all beings.

“Whatever happiness due to worldly success I experience, may I make use of it in common with all beings to bring about thorough understanding. ¹⁰

“Whatever misdeeds and non-virtuous actions¹¹ I have done, may I not fail to confess each one of them through unsurpassed confession.

“Whatever demonic actions have been done to me,¹² may I not fail to thoroughly understand them through unsurpassed thorough understanding.

“Whatever roots of virtue I may have, both mundane and supramundane, endowed with the perfections, may they become the fruit of unsurpassable wisdom for all beings.¹³

“Whatever liberation I may have, through it may all sentient beings be released.¹⁴ May I stay neither in saṃsāra nor in nirvāṇa.¹⁵

tadyathā oṃ kṣame kṣame kṣānte kṣānte dame dame dānte dānte bhadre bhadre