Praise of Noble Avalokiteśvara (chant version)
Translation of འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟགས་དབང་ཕྱག་ལ་བསྟད་པ (འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་ལ་བསྟོད་པ)
- Language
- English
- Date
- 2019 CE
- Translator
- Adam Pearcey
- Extent
- 41 passages, 371 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- lotsawahouse · Adam Pearcey (tr.), Praise of Noble Avalokiteśvara (chant version), Lotsawa House (version 1.3-20250303) · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site
Contents
- p1
- p2
- p3
- p4
- p5
- p6
- p7
- p8
- p9
- p10
- p11
- p12
- p13
- p14
- p15
- p16
- p17
- p18
- p19
- p20
- p21
- p22
- p23
- p24
- p25
- p26
- p27
- p28
- p29
- p30
- p31
- p32
- p33
- p34
- p35
- p36
- p37
- p38
- p39
- p40
- p41
Text
p1
Oṃ. Homage to the Lord of the World!
p2
Guru of all, you are honoured by the three worlds,
p3
You are lauded by leading gods, Māra and Brahmā,
p4
When praised, you bring the highest victory of a sage—
p5
Supreme lord of the three worlds, to you I pay homage!
p6
Your excellent form contains countless bliss-gone buddhas.
p7
You bear the Buddha Boundless Light at your crown.
p8
Your right hand is bountiful, dispelling the pretas’ famine and drought,
p9
And your left is perfectly adorned with a golden lotus.
p10
Your fragrant locks of hair are golden and glistening.
p11
Your broad face is as lovely as the moon.
p12
Your lotus-eyes are supremely beautiful and wide.
p13
Your body is as white as snow or conch and sweetly scented.
p14
You clasp a string of immaculate, gleaming pearls.
p15
You radiate rays of dazzling light, red as the dawn.
p16
Your arms are perfectly poised like lotuses on a lake;
p17
They are youthful and white as autumn clouds.
p18
Your two shoulders are adorned with many jewels.
p19
Your palms are youthful and as supple as a leaf.
p20
Your left breast is draped with a deerskin.
p21
You are adorned with earrings, bracelets and anklets.
p22
You rest upon a supreme, unsullied lotus.
p23
Your navel is as soft as a lotus petal.
p24
Your supreme golden belt is jewel-encrusted.
p25
Your waist is girdled with a garment of finest cloth.
p26
You transcend the great ocean with the supreme knowledge of a sage.
p27
You have amassed abundant merit and attained pre-eminence.
p28
You banish old age and sickness and are a wellspring of eternal joy.
p29
You bring the three to an end and display celestial action.
p30
You are supreme among the embodied, triumphant over demonic hordes.
p31
Your golden anklets chime merrily at your feet.
p32
You create beauty through the four brahma abodes;
p33
You move with swan-like grace and elephantine majesty.
p34
You have gathered all accumulations and pursue the teachings.
p35
You liberate from the sea of milk and ocean of water.
p36
Whoever rises regularly at the break of dawn,
p37
Devotedly brings Lord Avalokiteśvara to mind,
p38
And eulogizes him with these supreme praises
p39
Will, no matter whether they be male or female,
p40
Find that both in this world and in all future lives,
p41
All their needs, mundane and transcendent, are fulfilled!