འཕགས་པ་ད་བཞན་གཤགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་གཙག་ཏར་ནས་བྱང་བ་གདགས་དཀར་པ་ཅན་ཞས་བྱ་བ་གཞན་གྱས་མ་ཐབ་མ་ཕྱར་ཟླག་པའ་རག་སྔགས་ཀྱ་རྒྱལ་མ་ཆན་མའ 1

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Homage to the Three Jewels! Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas!

Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was dwelling in Excellent Dharma, the assembly hall of the gods in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, together with a great assembly of monks, a great assembly of bodhisattvas, and Śakra, the lord of the gods. The Blessed One sat down on a seat arranged for him and entered the samādhi called uṣṇīṣa gaze. As soon as he entered this samādhi, the words of this mantra formula issued from the center of the Blessed One’s uṣṇīṣa:

“namo bhagavate uṣṇīṣāya śuddhe viraje vimale svāhā.³⁰

“Homage to the blessed, unimpeded Uṣṇīṣa.
Homage to the Buddha.
Homage to the Dharma.
Homage to the Saṅgha.
Homage to the seventy million completely perfect buddhas.
Homage to the buddhas and bodhisattvas, headed by Maitreya, and the assembly of śrāvakas.

“Homage to the arhats of this world.
Homage to the stream enterers.
Homage to the once-returners.
Homage to the non-returners.
Homage to those who have gone rightly in this world.
Homage to those who have acted rightly.

“Homage to the divine ṛṣis.
Homage to the ṛṣis who have become vidyādharas.
Homage to the ṛṣis who have attained the state of a vidyādhara, wield the weapon of curses,³¹ and have the ability to benefit through curses.³²