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Chanting the Names of Noble Mañjuśrī

Translation of འཇམ་དཔལ་ཡ་ཤས་སམས་དཔའ་དན་དམ་པའ་མཚན་ཡང་དག་པར་བརྗད་པ (འཇམ་དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སེམས་དཔའི་དོན་དམ་པའི་མཚན་ཡང་དག་པར་བརྗོད་པ)

Language
English
Date
2022 CE
Translator
Ryan Conlon
Extent
665 passages, 4,348 words
Text
complete digital text
Source
lotsawahouse · Ryan Conlon (tr.), Chanting the Names of Noble Mañjuśrī, Lotsawa House (version 1.3-20250728) · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site

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In Indian language: Ārya-mañjuśrī-nāma-saṅgīti

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In Tibetan: pakpa jampal gyi tsen yangdakpar jöpa

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In English: Chanting the Names of the Noble Mañjuśrī

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Homage to ever-youthful Mañjuśrī!

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Then Vajradhara, ever glorious,

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Supreme subduer of the hard to tame,

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The hero conquering the triple world,

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The vajra lord and master of all secrets, (1)

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With eyes wide open like white lotuses,

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His face just like a lily in full bloom,

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While shaking in his hand repeatedly

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A vajra of the highest excellence—(2)

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Accompanied by countless Vajrapāṇis,

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With features such as fierce, turbulent brows,

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Subduers of the hard to tame, heroes,

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Appearing with heroic, hideous forms, (3)

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Brandishing in their hands their mighty vajras,

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The tips of which emit intensive light,

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Great benefactors to all living beings

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Through skill, through insight, and through great compassion, (4)

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With pleased and happy attitudes, with joy,

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Their bodies those of wrathful deities,

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Protectors who assist the buddhas’ deeds,

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Their bodies bowing reverentially—(5)

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Paid homage to the true awakened one,

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Protector, Blessed One, Tathāgata.

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And joining his two palms respectfully,

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He said before the lord the following: (6)

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‘O omnipresent lord, for my well-being,

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With due concern for me and for my sake,

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That I may reach complete awakening

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Upon the basis of Illusion’s Net; (7)

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And for the sake of every living being—

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Sunk deep into the mud of ignorance,

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Their thoughts disturbed by various afflictions—

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So that they may obtain the highest fruit, (8)

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May you—the most supreme awakened one,

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The Blessed One, the world’s guru, and teacher,

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Who knows the great samaya’s reality,

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Aware of wishes and abilities—(9)

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Reveal to us the great name chanting of

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The wisdom body of the Blessed One,

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The great uṣṇīṣa, master of all speech,

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The self-arising wisdom emanation, (10)

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The wisdom deity called Mañjuśrī;

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These names with meaning both profound and vast;

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Of great significance; unmatched; serene;

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With goodness at their start, middle, and end; (11)

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Proclaimed by buddhas of the aeons past,

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And to be taught by buddhas yet to come;

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And taught not once but time and time again

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By all the buddhas of the present age; (12)

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Which were respectfully recited in

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Illusion’s Net, the tantra most supreme,

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By multitudes of mighty Vajrapāṇis,

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The joyous guardians of secret mantras. (13)

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Just this I shall uphold with firm resolve,

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Until I reach my final liberation,

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So that I may become, O great protector,

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The bearer of the buddhas’ every secret; (14)

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And this I shall reveal to living beings

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According to each one’s capacity,

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In order that afflictions may be quelled,

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So ignorance may fully be dispelled.’ (15)

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With this request to the Tathāgata,

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The master of all secrets, Vajrapāṇi—

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His body bowed, his palms politely joined—

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Then stood before the lord devotedly. (16)

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And so the Blessed One, lord Śākyamuni,

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The best of men, the fully awakened one,

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Extending from his mouth his handsome tongue,

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A tongue unmatched in both its breadth and length, (17)

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Displaying a gentle smile to living beings—

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A smile that fills the threefold world with light;

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That tames the enemy, the four Māras;

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That ends unwanted birth in all three forms—(18)

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His voice melodious, like that of Brahmā,

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Completely filling all the triple world,

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Replied as follows to the lord of secrets,

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To Vajrapāṇi, strongest of the strong: (19)

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‘That you, abounding in supreme compassion

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And aiming to assist all living beings,

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Are willing and prepared to hear from me

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This evil-quelling, purifying chanting—(20)

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The chanting of the names, so filled with meaning,

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Of Mañjuśrī’s embodiment of wisdom—

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How truly excellent, O Vajradhara;

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How excellent of you, O Vajrapāṇi! (21)

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And so I shall, O master of all secrets,

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Reveal just that to you most splendidly.

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With single-minded focus, listen well!’

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‘How excellent!’ responded Vajrapāṇi,
‘So truly excellent, O Blessed One.’ (22)

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And then the Blessed One, lord Śākyamuni,

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Surveyed in full the family great with mantras,

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The family of the vidyās and the mantras,

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The family that is threefold by its nature, (23)

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The family of and yet beyond the world,

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The family great in brightening the world,

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The foremost family of mahāmudrā,

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And so the family great with great uṣṇīṣas. (24)

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And then, about the lord of speech, he spoke

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These verses, which include six kingly mantras,

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Which manifest from non-duality,

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Which bear the quality of non-arising: (25)

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And so, he is the Blessed One, the Buddha,

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Awakened fully, born of the letter ‘a’;

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He is the letter ‘a’, the foremost phoneme,

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Supreme-most syllable, with meaning great, (28)

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Arising from great vital force, unborn,

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Beyond expression based on words or speech,

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The foremost cause of every form of speech,

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The shining forth of every kind of language, (29)

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Great feast who takes the form of great passion,

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Producing bliss in every sentient being,

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Great feast who takes the form of great anger,

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Great enemy of every mental poison, (30)

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Great feast who is by nature great delusion,

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Delusion’s vanquisher for deluded minds,

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Great feast who is in essence great fury,

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Great adversary to all furiousness, (31)

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Great feast who takes the form of great desire,

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Who vanquishes desire in all forms;

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He is great carnal lust; he is great bliss;

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He is great happiness; he is great joy; (32)

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With great appearance, bearing forms supreme,

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With great complexion, marked by great physique,

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With great renown, the great munificent one,

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His maṇḍala voluminous and great, (33)

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The bearer of the mighty sword of wisdom,

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The foremost goad for taming great afflictions,

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Possessing great renown, his glory great,

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His brightness great, his lustre most supreme, (34)

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Most wise upholder of the great illusion,

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Fulfiller of the great illusion’s aims,

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Enraptured by the great illusion’s rapture,

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The great illusion’s great illusionist, (35)

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The foremost lord of great munificence,

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Supreme upholder of great discipline,

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Intent supporter of great tolerance,

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With valour rooted in great diligence, (36)

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Samādhi-resting through great meditation,

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Endowed with bodies flowing from great wisdom,

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Both great in strength and great in skilful means,

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A brimming ocean filled with vows and knowledge, (37)

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By nature great in kindness, limitless,

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The foremost mind, enriched by great compassion,

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Of great insight, of great intelligence,

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Great dexterous one, with methods ever great, (38)

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Commanding powers and great miracles,

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With driving force supreme, with speed unmatched,

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Renowned great lord, of foremost majesty,

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Most valorous owing to his great might, (39)

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Destroying the massive mountain of becoming,

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Unyielding, holding strong a massive vajra,

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Great terrifying lord, the great cruel one,

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Provoking fear in great and daunting creatures, (40)

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Protector as the greatest of all vidyās,

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A guru as the greatest of all mantras,

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Traversing well the Mahāyāna’s path,

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Himself the Mahāyāna’s foremost way; (41)

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He is Mahā-vairocana; the Buddha;

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Great sage; observing great, intensive silence;

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Arising from the Great Mantra Way;

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He is at heart the Great Mantra Way; (42)

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Accomplished in the ten pāramitās,

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Having the ten pāramitās as home,

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In whom the ten pāramitās are pure,

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For whom the ten pāramitās are means, (43)

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Protector, reigning over all ten grounds,

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Residing steadily on all ten grounds,

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Made pure in nature by the tenfold knowledge,

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Maintaining purity through tenfold knowledge, (44)

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With tenfold forms, intent on tenfold content,

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With tenfold strength, pervasive, lord of sages,

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Achieving every aim for every being,

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Endowed with tenfold mastery, supreme, (45)

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Beginningless, complexity devoid,

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By nature pure, reality in essence,

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Unwavering, a speaker of the truth,

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With speech and actions perfectly aligned, (46)

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A teacher of the non-dual truth, non-dual,

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Atop reality’s most lofty peak,

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With selflessness his wild lion’s roar,

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Instilling fear in deer-like misled seekers, (47)

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With journeys fruitful, travelling everywhere,

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As swift as thought in all tathāgatas,

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A victor, slayer of foes, triumphant lord,

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A universal king, with forces great, (48)

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Assembly head, instructor for assemblies,

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Assembly lord, assembly chief, the ruler,

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Most influential, bearing precious burdens,

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Not other-bound, his way the greatest way, (49)

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The lord of speech, the master of expression,

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Most skilled in words, adept with language, truthful,

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With boundless words, the teacher of the truth,

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Providing teachings on the fourfold truth, (50)

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Not coming back, not turning ‘round, rhino,

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The leader of the pratyekabuddhas,

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Gone forth by going forth in different ways,

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The single cause of all great elements, (51)

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