[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Protective spells and dhāraṇī-sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani) › [Ṣaṇmukhī dhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani) › [འཕགས་པ་སྒོ་དྲུག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo) › [The Dharani of the Six Gates](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000) › 2 # འཕགས་པ་སྒ་དྲག་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 2 The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates 2 - **Language:** English ### [2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000.2) 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 subhadre subhadre candre candre sucandre sucandre candrakiraṇe candravati tejovati yaśovati¹⁶ dharmavati brahmavati sarva­kleśa­viśodhani sarvārtha­sādhani sarvānartha­praśamani¹⁷ paramārtha­sādhani kāyaviśodhani vāgviśodhani¹⁸ manaḥsaṃśodhani svāhā “Therefore, children of a noble family, if any sons or daughters of a noble family recite The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates three times by day and three times by night, - [Previous: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000.1) - [Next: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000.3) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་སྒོ་དྲུག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo.2) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sanmukhidharani*bo~en-84000.2) · Pramāṇa