The Noble Sūtra of Recalling the Three Jewels
Translation of འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་རྗས་ས་དྲན་པ (འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པ)
- Language
- English
- Date
- 2001 CE
- Translator
- rigpa-translations
- Extent
- 76 passages, 543 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- lotsawahouse · Rigpa Translations (tr.), The Noble Sūtra of Recalling the Three Jewels, Lotsawa House (version 1.2-20211007) · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site
Contents
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- p6
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- p12
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- p39
- p40
- p41
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- p46
- p47
- p48
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- p61
- p62
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- p71
- p72
- p73
- p74
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- p76
Text
p1
Homage to the omniscient one!
p2
Thus the Buddha, the transcendent, accomplished conqueror, the tathāgata who has attained suchness, the arhat who has conquered all foes, is a perfectly and completely enlightened buddha, endowed with insight and worthy of reverence,
p3
The sugata who has reached the state of bliss,
p4
The knower of the entire world,
p5
The guide and tamer of beings,
p6
The unsurpassable one,
p7
The teacher of gods and humans,
p8
The Buddha Bhagavat.
p9
The tathāgata is in harmony with all merit.
p10
He does not waste the sources of virtue.
p11
He is fully adorned with patience.
p12
He is the foundation of the treasures of merit.
p13
He is ornamented with the excellent minor marks.
p14
He is the full blossoming of the major marks.
p15
His activity is timely and fitting.
p16
Seeing him, there is nothing displeasing.
p17
He brings true joy to those who have faith.
p18
His insight overwhelms all in its splendour.
p19
His powers are invincible.
p20
He is the teacher of all sentient beings.
p21
He is the father of all bodhisattvas.
p22
He is the sovereign of all the noble ones.
p23
He is the guide who leads beings to the city of nirvāṇa.
p24
He has measureless wisdom.
p25
He possesses inconceivable fearlessness.
p26
His speech is utterly pure.
p27
Its tones are melodious.
p28
One can never have enough of looking at him.
p29
His form is without comparison.
p30
He is unsullied by the realm of desire.
p31
He is quite unsullied by the realm of form.
p32
He is not caught up in the formless realm.
p33
He is completely liberated from suffering.
p34
He is totally liberated from the aggregates.
p35
He is not possessed with the constituents of ordinary experience.
p36
He is in control of the sense fields.
p37
He has cut right through the knots.
p38
He is completely liberated from torment.
p39
He is freed from craving.
p40
He has crossed over the river.
p41
He is perfected in all the wisdoms.
p42
He abides in the wisdom of all the buddhas of past, present and future.
p43
He does not dwell in nirvana.
p44
He abides in perfect finality.
p45
He remains on the level where he sees all sentient beings.
p46
All these are the authentic and supreme qualities of the embodiment of the Buddha.
p47
The sacred Dharma is good at the beginning, good in the middle and good at the end.
p48
It is excellent in meaning,
p49
Excellent in words and syllables.
p50
It is distinctive.
p51
It is totally complete.
p52
It is utterly pure.
p53
It completely purifies.
p54
The Buddha teaches the Dharma perfectly.
p55
It brings unerring vision.
p56
It is without affliction.
p57
It is constant and always timely.
p58
It is trustworthy when applied.
p59
Seeing it fulfils one’s purpose.
p60
The wise can validate it through their own awareness.
p61
The Dharma taught by the buddha relies entirely on training the mind.
p62
It is truly delivering.
p63
It causes one to arrive at perfect enlightenment.
p64
It is without contradiction. It is all-embracing.
p65
It is constant.
p66
It is the cessation of all uncertainty.
p67
As for the Sangha of the Great vehicle, they enter thoroughly.
p68
They enter with awareness.
p69
They enter straightforwardly.
p70
They enter harmoniously.
p71
They are worthy of veneration with palms joined together.
p72
They are worthy of receiving prostrations.
p73
They are a glorious field of merit.
p74
Offering to them brings great purification.
p75
They are an object of generosity.
p76
They are in every way the greatest object of generosity.